What
people aren't aware of is the fact that Microsoft's Zune
player is copyright protected.
You are forced to install the software, along with the Zune Marketplace, which is more expensive than iTunes.
Now, after you place all of your previous songs onto the Zune, 80% of them will not play because Zune will only recognize legally embedded songs.
So every song purchased from iTunes, Yahoo, Rhapsody, etc.. will
work, but no songs from Limewire, Torrents, the
Internet, etc. will!
That is the killing aspect of this crappy corporate product.
You can't share files with other
people via WiFi because song tracks received from another person can only be played three times, after which it expires unless you buy it from an online
music store.
And get this! Not all songs are eligible for sharing.
Record Companies can flag songs from the Zune Marketplace as non-distributal. These limits not only apply to Zune Marketplace
music, but to ALL audio files loaded onto a Zune
player, whether they have DMCA and RIAA protection or not.
Along with the fact that you can not play songs from a P2P Network or a BitTorrent site, you ALSO can not play songs ripped legally from your own CD that you bought, because most likely those songs are not embedded.
What you have here is a cheap product aimed at stopping the mass piracy of
music, and because it's Microsoft, you can expect lots of young, mindless
people with too much money buying into this product.
Go do research on other MP3 players before you jump on the bandwagon folks!
