“Plays for Sure” will not play on the Zune

225px-Zune-colors.jpgI’m not making this up.

Microsoft’s “iPod-killing” Zune player won’t play music that’s locked up with Microsoft’s own anti-copying software. Music and movies sold through Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink and Cinemanow (heavily promoted in the past by MS) won’t play on the Zune, even though these services are marketed in conjunction with Microsoft’s “Plays for Sure”

Boing Boing: Microsoft Zune won’t play purchased Microsoft media files

Christmas morning how happy would you be if your brand new digital music player will not load your legally purchased music collection?

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