better get to ripping those MSN music titles you paid for
MSN Music DRM key servers will go dark after August 31. That’s right, another lovely benefit of DRM is that the issuers of the keys can just decide to stop authorizing them. After August 31, those who purchased the music from the MSN Music store now have to either keep the OS and computer that the music resides on, or lose it forever.
You know what’s really odd, though? Those terrible people who downloaded music from Napster in the late 90s are still enjoying their tracks…. If any reps for corporations and media conglomerates are reading this, I have a word of advice. If you are trying to push users to use DRM’d content, you’re doing it wrong.
On another note, remember the article I wrote a while back about Windows XP key activation? What happens when Microsoft shuts down those activation servers because they want you to buy the next version of Windows?
