Microsoft to knock down PlaysForSure in August, permanently

Because of Microsoft’s undying love for all of its loyal PlaysForSure customers, it recently shot out an email to everyone with some very disturbing news. They will be killing their PlaysForSure licensing servers officially on August 31, 2008. What does this mean? If you’re a happy iPod or Creative MP3 user, nothing much. But for those who were smart enough to purchase music through the MSN Music Store, you’ll be demeaned to kingdom come by the silence of your non-playing tracks on August 31.

Of course, this would only happen if you think of transferring your music files to other devices, such as another computer or music player after August 31. Which would not be unlikely, but could still work well for a few people. Microsoft’s email couldn’t even offer so much as a statement of sympathy, saying “As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers.”

Clearly, a lot of people are not going to like this. But you knew that this would happen when you first signed up for PlaysForSure, right? Right???

Via [Wired]