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Friday, July 25, 2008 --- 44 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/macuser/~3/345806415/putting_the_drm_in_drama_yah
 Oh, DRM, when will you learn? As we heard earlier this year, Yahoo! Music, one of the first major music vendors to experiment with dropping DRM, will be shutting down their independent digital music service . And, worse it appears, they’ll be taking their DRM license servers offline as of September 30th . That means that all the music you bought (“you” generally, that is—we’re sure that “you” specifically were way too smart for that) from Yahoo! Music will be unplayable after that date. A similar fate befell MSN Music when it went out of business, though Microsoft recently changed their tune and said they’d keep the lights on until 2011. And hence we see the problem with digital music subscriptions. Imagine if Target closed down, broke into your house, and took back all the CDs you bought there. That’d be awesome . Of course, there are workarounds. For one, you can burn your tunes to a CD and re-rip them. That seems awfully counterproductive, doesn’t it? Isn’t the whole point of digital music the fact that you don’t have to waste all the physical resources? That’d be like getting electronic statement from your credit card company and laboriously hand-copying them, then scanning them back into your computer. Other alternatives include re-purchasing all your music in DRM-free format (I’m sure the record companies would love that) or just singing all your songs to yourself . So what happens to Yahoo’s music offerings now that their ... |
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