so because you made the mistake of paying for music before locks you into ipod? noooooo

You are saying you dont have friends who buy songs and want you to give it a spin on your player? What about those annoying songs you play 1000 times in a day and are sick of after that?

the wireless also streams video from the xbox 360 and is capable of streaming live video from a pc such as possibly a tv tuner capture?

but, the zune has DRM at the very core of its being - it will not appear as a drive on windows PCs at all so you cannot simply copy your pirated mp3s onto it - you have to use its software wich since its made by microsoft will be quite intelegent and I can imagine will recognize pirated music =/

so it lost my vote. Ill have to keep waiting for someone with the balls to make a totally unlocked player.