Microsoft PlaysForSuren’t

Yeah, well, it had to happen, right? Microsoft have pulled the plug on their PlaysForSure music service.

Basically this means that anyone who bought music from the Microsoft PlaysForSure store will no longer be able to play this music. For sure.

Microsoft are turning off the servers that control the DRM — Digital Rights Management (more like Digital Restrictions Management) — associated with this music. Therefore, any players capable of playing the music content will no longer be able to verify that you have in fact purchased the music, and thus will refuse to play it.

Pretty neat, huh? Not.