Zune Cop Coming to a Media Player Near You
If you’ve bought a Zune and a plan to do a software update you may not be able to play all of the content you’d like.
Through a round-about way it was revealed that Microsoft plans on making non-copyrighted material (specifically video) not be able to play on the Zune.
NBC has announced that they plan on not offering their programming through iTunes for two reasons: Apple’s demand to keep the price of the video at $1.99 and Apple does not plan on building filtering software to not allow pirated videos to be played.
There is one company that does have the rights of these companies in mind. NBC has decided to work with a “broader” base of customers by going with Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace.
NBC plans on offering older shows at a lower price than the new retail price for play on the Zune. As of now the Microsoft filtering software is not in place or fully developed. With the dollars it has behind it with this new NBC deal Microsoft will soon have this available in a software update.
In the Zune Insider Blog, Cesar Menendez, a member Microsoft’s Zune team mentioned…
We have no plans or commitments to implement any new type of content filtering in the Zune devices as part of our content distribution deal with NBC.
Perhaps it’s purely coincidence, the tradition of Microsoft’s copyright “protection”, and this NBC deal that could cause Mr. Menendez to respond like this. It would be safe to assume that Microsoft already had plans in place to “protect” companies from pirated material.
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Zune Cop Coming to a Media Player Near You
If you’ve bought a Zune and a plan to do a software update you may not be able to play all of the content you’d like.
Through a round-about way it was revealed that Microsoft plans on making non-copyrighted material (specifically video) not be able to play on the Zune.
NBC has announced that they plan on not offering their programming through iTunes for two reasons: Apple’s demand to keep the price of the video at $1.99 and Apple does not plan on building filtering software to not allow pirated videos to be played.
There is one company that does have the rights of these companies in mind. NBC has decided to work with a “broader” base of customers by going with Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace.
NBC plans on offering older shows at a lower price than the new retail price for play on the Zune. As of now the Microsoft filtering software is not in place or fully developed. With the dollars it has behind it with this new NBC deal Microsoft will soon have this available in a software update.
In the Zune Insider Blog, Cesar Menendez, a member Microsoft’s Zune team mentioned…
We have no plans or commitments to implement any new type of content filtering in the Zune devices as part of our content distribution deal with NBC.
Perhaps it’s purely coincidence, the tradition of Microsoft’s copyright “protection”, and this NBC deal that could cause Mr. Menendez to respond like this. It would be safe to assume that Microsoft already had plans in place to “protect” companies from pirated material.
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