Boing Boing: Creative Labs shafts MP3 player owners with feature revocation

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Creative Labs shafts MP3 player owners with feature revocation

Creative Labs has "updated" two of its MP3 players in order to break their FM radio recorder features. If you bought your Creative device because it said, "Record FM radio!" on the box, you're shit outta luck now -- Creative just stole that value out from under your nose. Guess that means I'm not going to be buying anymore Creative devices.

Creative has released a firmware "update" for its Zen MicroPhoto and Zen Vision:M players, which adds Audible support and other minor fixes to the former, video zooming and language support to the latter, but removes FM recording functionality from both players.

Link (Thanks, Amy's Robot!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:26:35 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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