So lets say you are a principaled music fan, you only buy legal music online and the whole Digital Rights Management thing never really bothered you. You bought a ton of music from Microsoft, they are the biggest guys in town so you know you are risk free right? Right. Microsoft is about to turn off the servers that have to authorize your music, they cost money to run you know Microsoft doesn’t have any of that, and once they are off you are out of luck the next time you change computers or a hard drive your music is dead forever. Don’t take it badly though, they really appreciate your business. Sucker….

Edited to Add: Microsoft explains, its just too hard and we didn’t really want to do it in the first place and it only effects a few people and you can just make lousy copies and yadda yadda yadda. Sucker.

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