Jason Dunn of ZuneThoughts was attending the CES 2007 last week in Las Vegas. On a meeting with other "Mobius" members with Zunes, they tried to share tracks and photos. The normal tracks have the 3d/3p restriction. But it looks like a large part of the tracks bought from the MarketPlace cannot be shared at all. Jason says he was told by another member that we are talking about 50% of the tracks. On a small 8 tracks sample he tried by himself, he found 3 restricted files.

Of course this wouldn't be a problem if Microsoft allowed the customers to know in advance which tracks are shareable and which are not. But you can only find out this at the time of sharing when you get an error. Also a different price for a different product would be nice. Why should the customer pay the same $0.99 for both categories ?

Maybe after the meeting with the music industry, Microsoft will clarify this issue.

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Restrictions of the Zune Pass  

[via ZuneThoughts ]