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Zune Music Service to Close

posted by martyb on Saturday October 31 2015, @10:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the Digital-Restrictions-Management dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Microsoft has announced (non-Javascript version) (emphasis in original) that

As of November 15, 2015, Zune services will be retired. You will no longer be able to stream or download content to your device from the Zune music service. However, Zune devices will still function as music players and any MP3 content that you own on the Zune device will remain there. You'll also be able to transfer music to and from your Zune player.

Note Content that was purchased with DRM may not play if the license can't be renewed.

Existing Zune Music Pass subscriptions will be converted to Groove Music Pass subscriptions.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @09:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @09:04PM (#256990)

    This is why I typically don't buy any DRMed shit, especially if the DRMed shit isn't the company's main bread and butter. Anyone who was still buying music on Zune after Microsoft shut off it's Plays For Sure game servers was probably asking for this. Wal-mart did the same kind of thing with their online music service years ago iirc, which showed a company didn't have to go bankrupt for their drm servers to go dark. They just had to make less money for the company than the company wanted. The same thing is happening with Zune.

    You can probably expect Steam to continue on fine, but only because it's doing well AND because it's the main bread and butter of the company. Although if they sold the business to another company all bets would be off. The only games I buy on there are -heavy- discounted in their sales, partly because of this extremely unlikely but still possible chance. (Also because I'm not paying full price for a file compared to a physical disc.)