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10. PlaysForSure Launched in 2004, at the height of the music industry’s fears about piracy and illegal filesharing, the PlaysForSure format was Microsoft’s attempt at a useful digital rights-management offering. Microsoft certified dozens of portable media players, network-attached receivers and mobile phones to support PlaysForSure music, and added the encryption to songs purchased from the MSN Music Store. Unfortunately, when it launched the Zune in 2006, Microsoft’s attempt to take on the iPod didn’t support … Read entire article »