Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iPod is getting some bad feedback lately. It turned out some months ago that shared songs, e.g. songs that you send another Zune user to his Zune, would only be playable for 3 days / times before they became useless. It did not even matter if the song contained DRM or not, all songs, even your own produced ones, would be limited to this.
This was apparently not enough for the usual suspects. Sony, we do love Sony – don’t we, and Universal decided to prohibit even this type of sharing for more than 40% of the songs that one could buy on the Zune marketplace. The first question that comes to my mind is why Microsoft is paying Universal roughly $1 for every Zune sold if Universal does not even allow that some of their songs are shared with all the limitations of the Zune player ?
This is probably blown out of proportion by the blogging scene at the moment but I think Microsoft should at least have the courtesy to label songs that can’t be shared. Every user should now if it is possible to share a song that he has bought from the Zune marketplace.
Record Companies again show that they do not understand the market at all. What would another Zune owner do if I would send him a song which he likes ? The song becomes unplayable after a time. Would be buy it ? Probably ? Would that mean profit for the companies ? Yes it would.
You know why I bought some CD`s for the first time in years ? Because I was able to listen to the whole tune online (ripped it) and offline before I decided to make the purchase. I personally think that they lose money because of the restrictions that they impose on their customers.
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I agree with you.It is impossible to hear as much as you want from an album while you’re in the store, so hearing stuff online or downloading it is a great way to decide if you really want to buy it or not.
also, I know that I have become acquainted with a wide variety of music because of all the sharing, and as a result, I bought more music.
why is that so bad?
They so much greedy for money, they will lose more than they gain by these marketing techniques…
Users can always use emule or torrents, because even if they want to pay DRM-like restriction forces them to use illegal versions :|