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		specialist on April 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books di... John Beezer built the Weed Share P2P music sharing service built on top of Microsoft's DRM. Microsoft discontinued the service without notice. All the music everyone bought was lost (unplayable).

specialist on April 4, 2019 [–]

These downvotes capture the "hate" portion of my relationship with HN.

Here's the cite:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/05/media_player_weedsh...

I misremembered the technical details, but the end result is the same: user's lost the content they purchased.

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