“The victims will only notice it when they purchase a new computer… At that point … the Microsoft music player running on the victim’s PC will make a call to Microsoft’s validation servers to verify that the music files were legitimately purchased. This call will fail, since the servers are not responding, since Microsoft has intentionally turned them off. The Microsoft music player will then conclude, incorrectly but steadfastly, that the music files were downloaded illegally and that the victim is a filthy pirate, and it will refuse to play them. In this case, the left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they’re both giving you the finger.”
— Mark Pilgrim on Microsoft pulling support for MSN Music. DRM truly does suck. 4 years ago
