The Day the Music Died
Mark Pilgrim,
Dive Into Mark,
May 06, 2008
What a mess. Mark Pilgrim: "So what happens on August 31, 2008? On that day, Microsoft will turn off the servers that they maintain for the sole purpose of validating that the songs that people have already 'purchased' through MSN Music are still theirs to play. Those people (hereafter 'the victims') will not notice the change right away... the Microsoft music player running on the victim's PC (like iTunes, but all Microsoft-y instead of Apple-y) will make a call to Microsoft's validation servers to verify that the music files were legitimately purchased. This call will fail, since the servers are not responding, since Microsoft has intentionally turned them off. The Microsoft music player will then conclude, incorrectly but steadfastly, that the music files were downloaded illegally and that the victim is a filthy pirate, and it will refuse to play them." Via Tom Hoffman.
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