Engadget recently wrote an interesting piece: An Open Letter to Microsoft - Why you shouldn’t kill FairUse4WM - Engadget.

While the tone is pretty candid, I have to say they have a point:

“Does the fact that we could quit and “keep” the music that we’ve been “renting” a problem? Theoretically, but what’s going to keep consumers paying those monthly fees isn’t the threat of losing access to their collection (though that’s part of it); what keeps them paying is the continuing access to a large, frequently updated catalog of new releases and older tunes.”

What if they were right?

On the fun side, what I love about the article is the last sentence:

“FairUse4WM means that all our PlaysForSure tracks will actually play for sure, so please don’t go and spoil it.”