From the PlaysForSure website: "When your device and music service are compatible with each other, all you have to do is choose the music that’s compatible with you. Look for the PlaysForSure logo on a wide selection of devices and music stores."
Even they more-or-less admit it is. I love the assumed "music service" bit.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Well, no. No they're not, at least not in the meaning of the term used by everyone except microsoft.
This website itself has on multiple occasions equated Playsforsure with DRM. And fairly sucky DRM for that matter.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/
http://interviews.engadget.com/2006/09/25/the-engadget-interview-viodentia-creator-of-fairuse4wm/
From the PlaysForSure website:
"When your device and music service are compatible with each other, all you have to do is choose the music that’s compatible with you. Look for the PlaysForSure logo on a wide selection of devices and music stores."
Even they more-or-less admit it is. I love the assumed "music service" bit.