its been pretty active recently, there was an article about it from verge i think. the microsoft servers are down for zune so there are a few ways to create a handshake (like an http get basically), and people show off their swag and rare zunes. i swapped my 30gb hdd with a 128gb ssd, its been pretty nice not streaming music and having it a bit tangible. the ipods can take a lot more hdd mods, and they can go over 128gb, where the zune cannot. ipods have a SD card mod that works, so fast cheap memory and rockbox and its a totally differant mp3 player