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Microsoft denies adding copyright scanner to Zune The New York Times has an interesting story about how Microsoft might be including a "copyright scanner" in their Zune product to check to make sure all your music is legit! If you like to download the latest episodes of Heroes or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldnt buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on. A future update of the software for Microsofts portable media player may well include a feature that will block unauthorized copies of copyrighted videos from being played on it. Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it would start selling video programming for the Zune, mainly TV shows. These include programs from NBC Universal, which has pulled its shows off Apples iTunes Store. Late Tuesday afternoon I reached J. B. Perrette, the president of digital distribution for NBC Universal, to ask why NBC found Microsofts video store more appealing than Apples. He explained that NBC, like most studios, would like the broadest distribution possible for its programming. But it has two disputes with Apple. First, Apple insists that all TV shows have an identical wholesale price so that it can sell all of them at $1.99. NBC wants to sell its programs for whatever price it chooses. Second, Apple refused to cooperate with NBC on building filters into its iPod player to remove pirated movies and videos. For the full story, click here! Posted at 05:23AM May 08, 2008 by Kevin P McAuliffe in Inform | Comments[0] 
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