Zune Marketplace hasn't been accessible from Washington D.C. all this time?! This is true for four zip codes when used in a billing address of a credit card: 20008, 20018, 20036 and 20071 ...

According to the Microsoft knowledge database article the cause is not known and six months after the official Zune Release it hasn't been fixed yet. Interesting...

Check the article talking about this bug kb929977 .

[via Seattle P.I.]

P.S. It reminds me of this article: How many Microsoft employs does it take to change a light bulb ?