MSN Music Keys Go Bye-Bye
If you purchased music from MSN Music Store, you could lose access to your songs in the future if you switch computers. Microsoft will turn off MSN Music license servers at the end of the summer. And after that, users will no longer be able to authorize new computers to play the music.
MSN sent out an e-mail yesterday letting MSN Music users know that they have until August 31 to make any additional authorizations or deauthorizations to play purchased music. If customers attempt to play the music on a different (unauthorized) computer after August 31, well, they’re out of luck. It won’t play.
The best part of this is the name of the music software that authorizes your computer: PlaysForSure. Um, yeah, until August. After that, you’ll have to keep your old computer as-is forever. Or until that collection of Michael Bolton embarrasses you enough to just let it die a quiet, dust-covered death. No upgrades from XP to Vista. And probably no reinstalls either, as that would require a new authorization, too.
So if you bought music from MSN Music you’re stuck with your old computer as long as you want access to your music. Unless you want to buy it all again in the new Zune Marketplace. Microsoft couldn’t have planned that on purpose, could they?
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[ars technica via boing boing]
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