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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 [...]

Just a thought, and you may have thought of this before, so if you have, bear with me. When you buy an OEM version of WindowsXP service pack 2, you have to “validate” it against Microsoft’s server, either over the web, or on the phone.What happens when Microsoft either A) decides to no longer support [...]