Microsoft is turning the store off. Your files will be locked to the machines you have registered.
That’s what you get for trusting Redmond.
From The Times
Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. That is more or less what has happened to people in America who bought music downloads from Microsoft. Last month the company announced that from August 31 this year songs bought from MSN Music, its online music shop, would no longer be transferable to machines other than the ones the files were registered to.
This means that, come September, if you want to transfer songs from your main PC to a laptop or a new computer you haven’t registered, you won’t be able to. If your computer dies, your painstakingly assembled music collection dies with it.
Who’s sorry now?