Comment Better than last time they did this. (Score 2) 21
When Microsoft gave up on and abandoned their oh-so ironically named "Plays4Sure" music DRM scheme in 2008 (4 years after launching it), the only options they offered were either: "Authorize your your playback license for each purchase before the shut-off date and that specific device will be able to continue to play it while it still functions and while you don't reset it, but it can't be transferred to another device or activated anywhere else anymore " or "You can remove the Plays4Sure digital protection by burning your purchased Plays4Sure music to CD and rip it back as MP3 by following these 17 easy steps. Better hurry and finish before , though!"
IIRC there was just a two-month (?) window between their initial announcement and the deactivating of the license servers altogether, if you missed that window all your music just became expensive digital dust.