Zune prepackaged with....

[kurisu7885]

Ok, I just heard this story via an email, so I dunno if there was any news on it about a lawsuit or anything.

Anyway, a family went to a Wal Mart and got a Zune media player for their twelve year old daughter. They opened it and pressed the play button to make sure it worked, and it was loaded with porn.

I'm jsut tryign to figure this one out.

[Theory?]

I guess someone got the one I returned...er...I mean...

[BetaSword]

While it is somewhat believable, the fact that it was through email makes it suspicious, especially if it hasn't been on the news or anything else like that. For all you know, it could be some sort of slander campaign or something like that. Who knows who it could've originated from.

Always be wary of email "news". That may be just as true as that Nigerian prince who wants me to take all his money.

[kurisu7885]

While it is somewhat believable, the fact that it was through email makes it suspicious, especially if it hasn't been on the news or anything else like that. For all you know, it could be some sort of slander campaign or something like that. Who knows who it could've originated from.

Always be wary of email "news". That may be just as true as that Nigerian prince who wants me to take all his money.

Still funny as hell. :D

[Darth_Toxic]

Reminds me of a local news story from last Christmas, where a woman bought an I-Pod or something for her son, and he opened the box, only to find *GASP*...

A rotten slab of steak.

Big ol' WTF, there.

[Cecil475]

Ok, I just heard this story via an email, so I dunno if there was any news on it about a lawsuit or anything.

Anyway, a family went to a Wal Mart and got a Zune media player for their twelve year old daughter. They opened it and pressed the play button to make sure it worked, and it was loaded with porn.

I'm jsut tryign to figure this one out.

I guess Wal-Mart does not clear out the hard drives on the things before re-selling them. I haven't heard of a 'Zune' media player. I must be 'out of touch' or something.

Reminds me of a local news story from last Christmas, where a woman bought an I-Pod or something for her son, and he opened the box, only to find *GASP*...

A rotten slab of steak.

Big ol' WTF, there.

Very WTF indeed.

Either a bad joke or they have something against IPOD or the store it was bought from. Who knows?

- Warren Lewis

[steelcobra]

Zune (http://www.zune.net/en-US/) is Microsoft's response to the iPod.

[Demontestament]

Reminds me of a local news story from last Christmas, where a woman bought an I-Pod or something for her son, and he opened the box, only to find *GASP*...

A rotten slab of steak.

Big ol' WTF, there.

Or the couple ho bought a camera from Best Buy to only come home open it and see their brand new $500 can of Pizza Sauce.

[Cecil475]

Zune (http://www.zune.net/en-US/) is Microsoft's response to the iPod.

Ok I get it. It's a mp3 player, that does more than play mp3s right?

- Warren Lewis

[Cecil475]

Or the couple ho bought a camera from Best Buy to only come home open it and see their brand new $500 can of Pizza Sauce.

Damn! (for $500 that better be some astronomicly good pizza sauce.) It's going to make the return/complaint rather....interesting.

- Warren Lewis

[steelcobra]

Pretty much. MS basically copied Apple's entire vertical distribution model, but messed up the software to get it running.

[kurisu7885]

Ok I get it. It's a mp3 player, that does more than play mp3s right?

- Warren Lewis
Yep,
the catch is nothing you have downloaded already will work, you can only buy the content from Microsoft's download service

[steelcobra]

It doesn't work with playsforsure files, but I believe it does unprotected AAC and MP3's.

[Cecil475]

Yep,
the catch is nothing you have downloaded already will work, you can only buy the content from Microsoft's download service

Ouch.

I'll be sticking to using my psp as a mp3 player. (which I'll be doing more when I buy a bigger memory stick. I've been listening to the music off of my Vice City Stories game. I love 1980's music.)

- Warren Lewis

[steelcobra]

I've already got an iPod, and iTunes is my favorite music player anyways, so bam.

[kurisu7885]

And I already have a lyra which can play all the music I have already. All I need is a 1 gig SD card and bam, I can fit my entire music folder.

[steelcobra]

I've got 3.78 gigs in aac, so a flash player isn't really an option.

[Cecil475]

And I already have a lyra which can play all the music I have already. All I need is a 1 gig SD card and bam, I can fit my entire music folder.

Might get get a gig memory stick for mine. It holds all I want.

- Warren Lewis