The bad dream of DRM
Submitted by jajacobs on Sat, 2008-08-02 10:59.
DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it, by Nate Anderson, ars technica (July 24, 2008).
The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good—and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September 30, 2008.
...[T]he Yahoo news is just another depressing reminder of all the wasted time and energy put into these schemes designed to create roadblocks for legal users.
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And just how hard is it to
And just how hard is it to transfer the server data (and presumably the right to push new product on the users) to some other company who still IS in the business? These are loyal customers, when people can easily download for free if they want. You'd think they were valuable to someone...
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