[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/tc_nm/media_microsoft_universalmusic_dc[/url]
Basically, in a nutshell, Microsoft is essentially paying a sort of "agreed tax" to the Universal Media Group (one of the largest conglomerates of major labels, next to EMI, and BMG) for every Zune sold. I don't really know where they're going with this, but...yeah.