It looks like Microsoft has already signed a deal with Universal Music Group to pay them one easy dollar for every Zune that is sold. This is supposed to help them for all of the illegal music that will get put on the Zune. It also helps Microsoft prevent them from getting sued to death by Universal for their music sharing service that will allow Zune's to transfer music across wireless networks.
Despite the ability to transfer music the music will only have a 3 day period that it will be able to remain on the Zune until it gets delted. This is part of Microsoft's new sharing system that is supposed to help generate more revenue through people sharing music without pissing off the music industry any more then they need to. The only problem with that system is of course the fact that not all music is licensed through the recording industry. So independent artists would seem to also have to go through that same ordeal of only being on someone's Zune for 3 days until they get deleted and the user has to go and download the song for free anyway.
It will probably be extremely confusing at first but i'm sure that once it gets rolling the Microsoft machine will spin it in to good news rather then complicated horse crap.
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