Thousands of 30GB Zune owners have formed a “My Zune is a Brick” club on this New Year’s Eve day after a Y2K-like issue killed their Zunes. Some sort of clock bug related to 2008 having 366 days is apparently causing 30GB models to reboot and then hang before completing boot-up. Brick! While I have an 80GB Zune that still boots up, I’m here to report that there’s trouble in Zune 80GB Paradise as well. I was listening to an album on my Zune that I downloaded with my [up to now, fantastic] Zune Pass while stacking wood this afternoon when the music stopped. The screen displayed “rights to this song are expired,” or something to that effect. All DRM content continues to play in the Zune software on my laptop, but my Zune is hosed for all Marketplace…(read more)

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