Steinbring Inc.

What the heck! When they released this stupid thing, they said:

(a) The music industry will be getting a kickback for each Zune sold for no real apparent reason

(b) You can only use music bought from the Zune marketplace and can’t even use the music you already bought from Microsoft via MSN Music

(c) Everything is infected with their DRM crap

The only cool thing was that you could do was to share (or squirt) music (for only 3 plays or 3 days) to other Zune owners (if you can find another one) via built in wifi. Now, they’re saying that for music from certain artists (40-50% of Universal and Sony artists) you can’t even do that?!?!? That’s insane! This is why the Zune is failing so miserably.

From cliczune:

Here’s what we found from the 50 songs tested by Zunerama:

Universal Music Group

* Prohibited Zune Sharing: Gwen Stefani, Snow Patrol, Eminem, Blue October, JoJo, Jay-Z;
* Accepted Zune Sharing: Nickelback, Nelly Furtado and Maria Careh;

Sony Music

* Prohibited Zune Sharing: Beyonce, Weird Al Yankovic (not sure if song is from Sony) and Ciara;
* Accepted Zune Sharing: Shakira, Wyclef Jean, The Fray, Christina Aguilera, John Mayer and Brad Paisley;

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