When Colin's 60GB PS3 broke down, he had to transfer all of his data to his 40GB. Everything was working fine until he hit SingStar, and it all came crashing down.

When he tried to re-downloable the songs that he had purchased, it wouldn't let him. The game uses it's own "download system" instead of the PSN's, and it doesn't allow you to download songs twice. That must be a bummer.

SingStar's' DRM is by far and away the most controlling system from a videogame company in this day and age, even outstripping the berserk Spore DRM system (which is hard to do). To permanently lock a player out of content that they've paid for is a shameful business practice. At the very least they could allow you to rebuy the content -- I mean why not? It would just make them more money and would allow their customers to sing their favorite songs. I mean wasn't that the POINT of the SingStore? While the idea of rebuying content you've already paid for once sounds painful, at least the option would have been appreciated.

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