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Bugger.  Check out our latest Zune DRM Update…

Looks like we may have blogged too soon about the Zune’s WiFi being crippled – Zune-Online.com left the following comment on our last Zune post:

“The 3 days or 3 plays restriction applies only if the song has been bought by a friend of yours from the Zune marketplace and he decides to send it to you to listen. You can listen to it 3 times, or keep it no more than 3 days. After that you Zune device still remembers it, but now you have to buy it to listen again.

BUT if a friend of yours sends you an MP3 or any other non-DRM song, you can keep it FOREVER”

This is, as you will agree, excellent news.  Nobody expected Microsoft to allow the copying of DRM-encrypted tracks between players with zero restrictions, but up until now all the reports have indicated that all tracks would be subject to the same 3 day limitations.  To find out that’s not true is great!

All of a sudden, Zune is back in the competition for me.

[Thanks to Zune-Online.com for the info]