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EFF to Ballmer: You owe MSN Music customers an apology, a refund and more

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EFF has published an open letter to Steve Ballmer upbraiding him for switching off the MSN Music DRM server and nuking the music collections of every customer trusting enough to buy music, laying out a suite of things that Microsoft needs to do to make amends

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{"commentId":1749475,"authorDomain":"rutty"}

I don't know how many people have been stung by this but it's an entirely unsatisfactory situation for all those people that have legitimately paid for their music - and that's putting it mildly.

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Reply#1 - Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:32 AM EDT
{"commentId":1749752,"authorDomain":"michaelsautter"}

Just one more reason not to buy digital music with DRM crap attached. I'm sure Microsoft covered this in the EULA.

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#1.1 - Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:38 AM EDT
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