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Zune will pay for itself with Music Sharing!

Posted by todd at 5:52 PM on October 24, 2006

ZuneRumor mill is flying with it being reported that Zune will allow users to make money with their players. With the technology that they have supposedly copied from WeedShare.

What happens is pretty straight forward you share your playlist or songs and when you do your buddy you share it with can play the track 3 times. On the 4th they are prompted to buy the music track when they do the original person that shared the track earns credits towards music purchases.  The article were I outline the technology that Microsoft has supposedly copied is linked [here]. While the article discussing this rumor is on [Gizmodo]

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