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At least when Microsoft was pulling the plug on their music streaming service, they gave everyone the ability to just download all of the songs that you owned.
That's the right thing to do
It should also be the only option for them if our consumer protection laws were even half effective.
Microsoft may not be the best company, but it's moves like this that make me trust them more than just about any other company.
They prefer the subtle evils most people won't notice, like mass surveillance, intentional backdoors, obliterating competition with unethical business practices, rather than the obvious evils of stealing from their userbase.