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It seems that sometime in these wee hours of the morning, Microsoft decided to make updates to the video and music marketplaces.   Preceding this, I made a rather unusual discovery:   all content was free!   To what extent, I'm not particularly certain, but I kept getting told I had already downloaded the content before and was then free to download it "again" and was never charged.   This was noticed in the Weird Al spotlight section.

It's uncharacteristic of Microsoft to give spotlight music videos away for free, and they would have labeled it as free if they had.   So, it seemed more likely that they've experienced an issue and accounts were "approved" for all content, so to speak.   Depending on how many others discovered this, it could turn out to be a rather costly error for Microsoft.

Following this, I received a prompt at the bottom telling me the video marketplace had downloaded (without prompt, which left me scratching my head).   When going back to it, I received notification that there was an update for it, downloaded it, and now the service is unavailable.   Tsk tsk.   Poor MS must be having some real problems.

If anyone else got in on it, then high five.   If not, keep your eyes peeled for early morning fuck ups.