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Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:46 +0000

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By: FUDsucker Proxy

FUDsucker Proxy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:47:22 +0000

So this guy interrupts strangers, they tell him to buzz off and that is Microsoft’s fault?

So this guy tries to be sociable and “squirt” a fellow Zuney, using THE most hugely touted feature of his new toy (the Zune’s ONLY perceived “advantage” over iPod) and is rebuffed at the receiving end … hmmmm.

By: oomu

oomu — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:16:46 +0000

the fact is

it’s not thought for the right use

of course it would be useful and fine to “share” music

but music for my OTHERS DEVICES (computer, an other zune or phone), for the device of MY friends, and NO DRM to limit and render the whole features useless.

my friend will simply got my mp3/mp4aac or the url to buy the music he hears at my home.

I urge industry for traceable watermarking in files we buy. not for drm. if all music people buy in itms was watermarked with their identity and credit card information, it will stop people to try to circumvent drm and copy their itms tunes.

of course there are way to remove watermarking and recreate the exact data, but it’s complex, industry can use DMCA laws to forbid distribution of “watermark remover” and people will still be afraid to spread their bought file to anyone on internet but THE FAIR USE would be still possible :

to copy the files to whatever computer/devices we want and use OUR LEGALLY BOUGHT stuff for OWN USE as WE want or we could imagine in future!

By: Alain

Alain — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:07:32 +0000

So this guy interrupts strangers, they tell him to buzz off and that is Microsoft’s fault?

By: wph

wph — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:47:48 +0000

I would like the iPod to incorporate something like this. People would say “COPYING THE ZUNE WTF” but really it’s a natural progression. iTunes shares with other computers on the network, why not the iPod?

By: rahrens

rahrens — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:37:52 +0000

Hey, this squirting thing is obviously for friends, huh? I agree with your overall experience – listening to music is private. It is something I do when I have time that doesn’t involve interacting with others – certainly when I have earplugs in my ear! If I want to listen with others, we’ll use a music box that has open speakers, and we’ll do it at someone’s house, where we won’t have nosy strangers to complain about the noise and we can all listen to the same music at the same time!

“The Social” *sounds* good. At least until you really analyze where and how people use personal music devices. That is where Micro$oft blew it. It was obviously a ploy to try to undercut Apple; unfortunately for them, they didn’t do their homework!