__/ [ billwg ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 01:03 \__
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> arachnid wrote:
>> Now why does this sound like something the RIAA would come up with?
>>
>> http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49283610,00.htm
>>
>> "There's the spirit of sharing, which Zune encourages by letting Zunies
>> swap music over a built-in wireless network. But all things must pass --
>> in this case, within 72 hours. You'll have three days in which to listen
>> to each song three times, at which point it is summoned back to the
>> great server in the sky. Doesn't matter if you're passing your parents a
>> recording you made of your kid being cute -- Zune will banish it. Unless
>> Microsoft is willing to let other companies join in the fun, your
>> chances of sharing anything will be limited by the number of other Zune
>> owners within a 50m radius. Perhaps that's the new digital rights
>> management strategy -- Zero Users, No Exchange."
>
> What have you got to lose, spiderman? If Zune is a flop then the
> marketers will have missed the boat, which would not be the first time
> something flopped. But it isn't PC desktop or server software, now is
> it? Is there an OSS equivalent of Zune? Why not?
Zune is hardware. Are you past 'wine time'?
The iPod had several Linux mods. Several MP3 players are Linux based.
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