San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging Microsoft Corporation to fix the problems it will cause when it shuts down the MSN Music validation servers, making it impossible for customers to transfer their music files to new computers or even upgrade their operating system.

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Last week Microsoft announced that, as of August 31, it will no longer issue DRM license keys for songs bought on MSN Music.

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Let's hear it for the Mesh. Microsoft has launched a web-based service, Live Mesh, that it said would allow users to share data folders across different PCs and devices.

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MSN Music users have already dealt with the shutdown of the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) service; now they're hearing the Mission Impossible theme as the music they acquired will self-destruct if they need to change hardware after Aug. 31. MSN has been supporting music library transfers since the store shut down in 2006 by providing DRM keys for the move to new computers. The pool of affected users ...

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Microsoft's decision effectively places an expiration date of about three to five years on song libraries that MSN Music customers thought they had purchased for life.

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Microsoft revealed a Web-based service on Tuesday, called Live Mesh, that lets people share data folders across different PCs...

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Microsoft exec says it was impractical to continue supporting MSN Music and that the company would have offered DRM-free songs had it been allowed to.

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