Ok, so I'm anti-DRM (Digital Rights Management). Not for a free-for-all pirating world, No! It's because as a consumer, if I buy a product. I expect to own it!
With Microsoft closing its DRM service , they are leaving the consumers with something they don't own, and when that hardward and OS that the player is installed on dies! So does the product which was paid for and owned by the consumer. Even if the songs are backed up and saved on external media, if the operating system and it's registry that holds the certificate is gone, the DRM will fail to authenticate, access denied.
Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft made available a tool to allow purchasers of the service a way to unlock the DRM on the music they purchased. In a perfect world it would be! Probably some pissed off fanboy will start a lawsuit.
It's moves like this that make music sharing and P2P sharing networks more popular. DRM is bad for business, it's bad for the consumer.
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