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DRM still sucks: Yahoo turning off license servers

William Henning - Friday, July 25th, 2008 | 11:48AM (PT)

Yahoo alienates customers

Have you bought DRM-infected music from Yahoo's Music Store?

Too bad.

You won't be able to move them to other devices or computers after September 30th, when Yahoo switches off its license servers.

Sure, you can burn them to CD, and re-rip them, but you will take another significant quality hit when they are re-encoded to MP3.

Microsoft tried a similar move earlier, but public outcry caused them to keep the servers going until 2010.

Source: Yahoo's DRM wasted my music collection

Section: Media Players & Services

Comments:

July 25th, 2008 12:27PM(PT)

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lord monkey

God I hate DRM. Reminds me of a past HD-DVD format...

July 26th, 2008 5:34AM(PT)

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Sabre 220

We all hate DRM, but unfortunately its something that we'll have to get used to because of piracy.

July 27th, 2008 9:48AM(PT)

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VeGiTAX2

"its something that we'll have to get used to because of piracy."

One of the worst statements on this site.

DRM was always a desired mandate since the MP4 spec was released almost a decade go. Not because of piracy but because of a want and desire for control.

Consumers don't need to get used to anything, Amazon, Apple and others got the message as DRM infected track sales were only mediocre compared to what they could have been and now their non-drm music is selling quite well in normal MP3 format without the quality loss.

It's no shock that Yahoo took it on the chin once these services started offering non-drm as an option for any album, would you really want crippled tracks or would you prefer having something you control? It was a no-brainer for them.

July 28th, 2008 2:14PM(PT)

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bhenning

sabre220, I have to agree with VeGiTAX2

DRM is NOT about piracy. It does not stop pirates at all, nor disk duplicators.

It is designed to stop home users from format and time shifting, in order to force them to buy multiple copies of the same film/cd; with an eye towards eventually forcing everyone into a pay-per-view model, where you pay every time you watch a film, and every time you listen to a song.

August 3rd, 2008 1:40PM(PT)

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