>From here: http://www.zuneinsider.com/2006/09/answers_to_some.html (a
blog from someone at Microsoft working on Zune)

"I made a song. I own it. How come, when I wirelessly send it to a
girl I want to impress, the song has 3 days/3 plays?" Good question.
There currently isn't a way to sniff out what you are sending, so we
wrap it all up in DRM.  We can't tell if you are sending a song from a
known band or your own home recording so we default to the safety of
encoding. And besides, she'll come see you three days later. .  ."

A friend of mine just linked me to this, so sorry if this is old news,
but it looks like it was just posted yesterday and I haven't seen any
traffic on it.

Won't that violate a great load of copyright license? Is there some
Fair Use defense of that sort of behavior I'm not figuring it out? If
I license a song of mine with a license that doesn't allow for DRM, is
Microsoft infringing?

Christopher

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