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Yahoo Music: 3 months only |
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Written by Admin
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
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Yahoo Music Unlimited is reminding its users this week that it is
shutting its doors by the end of the month. The company will also
turn off its DRM licensing servers, which means that users won't
be able to acquire any new licenses for the Windows Media DRMed
downloads they "bought" for 99 cents each. From the email sent to
customers:
"Purchased music that you downloaded to authorized computers or
devices will continue to play on those devices, unless you upgrade
your operating system. If you attempt to transfer purchased
downloads to an additional or previously unauthorized computer or
device, your music will not play on those new computers or
devices."
So better don't get any funky ideas and buy yourself one of those
Sansa players, because your Yahoo music won't work on them, even
though the company previously promised it would. Yahoo's advice is
to back up your songs by burning audio CDs and ripping them in the
MP3 file format, thereby effectively circumventing the DRM.
This isn't the first time users of an online music store have to
find out the hard way that they don't actually own the music they
paid for it it is protected with DRM. Microsoft got a lot of grief when it turned
off its licensing servers for its discontinued MSN music store this
summer.
It seems like Yahoo has learned from this fiasco: The company is
offering free download gift certificates for Rhapsody's MP3 store for anyone having trouble
with the DRM after Setember 30th. The only downside: You have to
make your claim until the end of this year, or you'll be stuck
with a bunch of worthless DRM garbage.
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