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Friday, September 03, 2004

MSFT Offers Real "Freedom of Music Choice"

EEF: "Tech support for Microsoft's new MSN Music service is responding to the incompatibility between its downloads and the iPod by advising its customers to burn the downloads to CD, then rip the CD to a compatible format ... Now that's what I call freedom of music choice, in contrast to Real Network's misleading campaign of the same name. Of course, this does underscore what we've been saying for some time: the DRM used by authorized music services doesn't protect copyright owners (especially with MSN's own tech support telling you how to defeat it). It obviously hurts the legitimate customers who have paid for their downloads. So conscripting customers into the Apple v. Real v. Microsoft platform wars appears to be the only function for the DRM on authorized music services. And they want you to pay for this?"

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