Zune told "keep off the common"

The limited nature of wi-fi filesharing allowed by Zune has prompted a proposed tightening up of the Creative Commons licence.

Because sending a song from one Zune to another - in the unlikely event of finding another person with a Zune - builds a three-play decay into any track, regardless of if it has Micorsoft's DRM or not, there had been some concern this went against the spirit of the CC licence. The licence will, if the changes are adopted, be reworded to turn that from spirit to letter:

"When You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work, You may not impose any technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the right granted to them under the License."

In other words, the very nature of Zune to Zune sharing runs contrary to the concept of free culture promoted by the licence.

In other Zune news, we were looking at the three page glossy advert for the player in the current Rolling Stone, and were struck by what was missing: not a single mention of Microsoft.

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