Musical Obsession

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More details on Microsoft's Zune, meant to be an iPod competitor:

The software maker said Thursday that its portable Zune media player, scheduled to be available around the holiday season, will include wireless technology to let people share some of their favourite songs, playlists or pictures with other Zune users who are close by.

Those users can listen to the songs three times over three days before deciding whether to purchase it themselves.

Three times over three days. Seriously? I know at least three people (one being me) who, when they get a new song, listen to it over and over and over again. I don't know if three times would make me buy the song (probably not) or hate the Zune (probably).


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Comments

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish there was a way I could restrict people to only listening to music I loan them once. I also wish I could make books I loan people blow up if they try to loan it to someone else, or try to go back and re-read a chapter.

That's what's wrong with CDs and physical books... they're just so... convenient.

[c9.livejournal.com]

<Obscure Kids In The Hall reference>

"My pen!!!!"

</Obscure Kids In The Hall reference>

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

http://www.flickr.com/groups/isquishyourhead/pool/



Uh oh, I have a feeling I'll be looking for KITH DVDs shortly after this...

[c9.livejournal.com]

Expensive! I'd love to be able to build a KITH set. Also a Star Trek set. Having to buy episodes I don't want annoys me.

[sarah-sosiak.livejournal.com]

Whoops. LJ ate my tags. :-).

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Moreover, this is doubly repugnant because it adds DRM to your recordings whether it's legal or not -- music licensed under Creative Commons can't have DRM applied to it under the license, so the machine breaks the license when it wraps this DRM around it.

The same is true for recordings you make yourself, regardless of how you *want* to share the data. Big Brother, apparently, knows best.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Seriously though, what kind of commie makes their *own* recordings? I know that all loyal Americans only shop at approved retailers for approved recordings of approved lyrics.