[geeks] Why MS's Zune product is very scary

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:16:29PM -0400, James Fogg wrote:
>> IF you use the Zune, these files will automatically be
>> wrapped in DRM, and it will be then be up to Microsoft as to
>> whether or not you will be allowed to play it, on a piece of
>> hardware that you have already paid for.
>
>
> I wonder if it's legal to DRM something you don't have the rights to.
> Neither Microsoft nor the Zune owner have the rights to any of the
> content you mentioned, so how can they manage or change the rights?

By putting some shrink wrap, click-through agreement on it that
basically says that you're transferring all rights of any media you load
onto their device (and it is their device, not yours) to them.  Just
like the rest of their idiotic EULAs.

And the sheeple will do it.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org