Jason Dunn
09-29-2010, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/35922/msn-music-gets-zune-treatment' target='_blank'>http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/359...-zune-treatment</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Microsoft, fresh from the news that it will be bringing its Zune music and video service to the UK, has announced plans to integrate MSN Music into the software. What this means is Zune content will be accessible via MSN Music, with the Zune Marketplace easily accessible after replacing the current MSN download store."</em></p><p>I didn't even realize that MSN Music still existed anywhere in the world - if you recall, back in 2008, MSN Music shut down and <a href="http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/89626" target="_blank">announced they'd decommission their DRM servers</a> - which would effectively kill all the music that people had bought if they ever needed to re-authenticate it (moving to a new PC, hard drive crash, etc.). They relented and announced they'd leave their servers active until 2011. Has MSN Music in the UK been selling DRM-poisoned tracks all this time? Or did they switch to MP3s back when the rest of the online music stores did? Regardless, it's now going to be Zune. I wonder if MSN Music will do one to one conversions of DRM'd MSN Music tracks to DRM-free Zune tracks? Nah, probably not...</p>