Msn Music License Servers Will Turn Off By The End Of This Summer. Options

[scou_verner]

Yeah, I just read this on the net and I must say that this hugely sucks cause I, for one, have purchased over the years lots of music from them and I read that if I wanna transfer these songs to other computer than the one I have right now after August 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play.And I don't really intend to keep this computer for ever, c'mon I'm gonna change it some day.What am I supposed to do with all this music?

[lepetitmartien]

You PAID to have the right to play these files, they remove you the ability to play them according to the licence, I think it's fair trade to do so.

Watch for an eventual class action, as I wrote before, M$ and the majors ot providing a decent way out is no fair trade.

I don't know the US legal system enough to be sure of this but for example, in France, when you pay the rights for a tune on any format, you are suposed to be entitled to play it on ANY other format. Surprisingly, majors play a game of making us pay each time the rights any time we buy the same tune on a different format… Rights are supposed to be once upon a time linked to the tune, not the format it is provided on (record, tape, CD, SACD, MP3, whatever) so there's definitely a case of extending income ressources for the ones receiving the rights (not necessarily the artists) to the expense of the right of the customer.