Now, a lot has been said recently regarding SecuROM, Sony's little DRM software they saw to recycle after their previous brilliant idea in the market, XCP, was ruled as being completely and utterly illegal. Yet there's something not commonly known which I feel could very well crush, kill, or cripple Sony's DRM, and thereby render it in the same way as XCP from the legal front. It's something Microsoft knows quite a bit about, and something which intimately involves Microsoft via the effect.
The information? Sony's DRM software cripples Microsoft's Zune MP3 player software.
Now, you're going to ask me how this info could kill SecuROM, I know you are. Well, it just so happens that Sony has their own line of music players, and so are a competing company directly to Microsoft in that regard. So by SecuROM attacking and disabling features of the Zune software, it's actually acting in what could be construed legally as a rather /bad/ business practice.
The question is: Does Microsoft know about it, or would they act if they did?
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DRM is great, man. Attacks the people who buy the game, is cracked within minutes (or sometimes before <_<) launch, and breaks everything.
Man, it won't last long.
Not the SecuROM thing, but the Zune buying
And if Microsoft finds out that Sony is crippling one of their products, they will get pissed.
nothing wrong w/ a ZUNE. it does exactly the same thing as an iPod & is cheaper a lot of the time.