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EFF Blasts MSN Music Shutdown

Upgrading systems means losing purchased music

By WebProNews Staff · April 30, 2008 · 4 Comments

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Customers will be left holding onto inaccessible music once Microsoft turns off the licensing servers for songs purchased through MSN Music, a situation the Electronic Frontier Foundation finds untenable.

MSN Music customers are an OS upgrade or PC replacement away from losing access to their songs. Though it may not affect a lot of people, as MSN Music turned out the lights in 2006, anyone impacted by the decision to no longer support the licensing loses here.

The EFF wants Microsoft to reconsider the decision. “If Bennett is truly concerned with ‘what

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Lowongan Kerja Bank
October 19, 2008 at 11:36 am

i love the music..

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October 19, 2008 at 11:37 am

what happend with msn??

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Lowongan kerja 209
October 19, 2008 at 11:37 am

something wrong with msn???

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macao
March 4, 2009 at 11:30 pm

The servers authenticate purchases made from the now-defunct MSN Music service, allowing users to authorise new computers to play purchased songs

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