The Consumerist (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Yet another example of why DRM sucks: Yahoo! is shutting down their music store. Don't worry, all you have to do is burn all that music to CD then re-upload it to your computer. As Ars Technica says:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
AppleInsider (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Yahoo did its best to stage a rival to Apple Inc.'s iTunes, but after three years of lagging results, the Internet icon is putting its Yahoo! Music service to rest and leaving subscribers with copy-protected music libraries that can't be transfered t...
TechSpot (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM such as MSN Music, Sony's Connect music store and other online music services have done in the past. The company recently notified its Yahoo Music customers that on September 30 it would shut down its DRM servers along with the store.
Gadgetopia (Free subscription) | yesterday
DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it : This is why DRM sucks. With DRM, you are dependent on someone else to enjoy something you’ve already paid for. 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. […] Once...
InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
The company said its digital rights management servers would be taken down, severely limiting the use of the files.
Revenue Source (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized Yahoo's planned shutdown of DRM servers for its music store and asked the company to take care of its...
HardMac.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source : ARS Technica Yahoo suddenly announced his clients that his music store was about to close down. Nothing much serious except their DRM licences management servers will switch off this september 30. This deadline passed, the bought music will be unusable unless one was cautious enough to burn CD's out of it. If you do so, be aware that the double encoding from AIFF and then to MP3 or AAC will...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
San Francisco - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) is taking some criticism for following a move Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) was compelled to backtrack on, namely discontinuing a digital rights management-laden music service in a way that will make some songs purchased by consumers unplayable. Microsoft eventually added three years of support for customers who purchased downloads from its MSN Music store, who complained...
ehomeupgrade (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bad news Yahoo! Music users (and an other example of why we and others have warned you that DRM sucks for your digital media archive). The service has begun sending out email messages notifying customers that the digital download music service will be discontinued and that the DRM license key servers that allow people to [...] Visit eHomeUpgrade for more breaking news.
SlashGear (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo! Music have announced that their online store will close as of September 30th 2008. In an email to subscribers, the company also confirmed that on that date their DRM-authentication server would go online, meaning that anybody who had bought tracks from the store would be unable to transfer them to another computer: “After the Store closes, Yahoo! will no longer be able to support the retrieval...
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo announced that effective Sept 30, they will be shutting down the servers needed for customers who need to reauthorize their legally purchased music. Yahoo previously had announced the demise of their Unlimited Music Store. DRM encoded tracks have caused a commotion since they were introduced as a piracy-fighting tactic. Users purchasing new computers and operating [...]
Tech News at TechWhack (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo latest to ditch DRM Music customers Yahoo has now become the latest seller of DRM music to ditch their customers. The company has announced that they are closing down their DRM servers and the customers are advised to burn the music on Audio CDs to prevent any locking. Yahoo has said that they would stop operating the [...]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a continuation of Yahoo Music's move to send their customers over to Rhapsody, YM's shutting down their DRM servers as of September 30. Unlike when MSN's Music servers shut down and then...
Computerworld Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Will hundreds of my purchased songs be rendered unplayable? Not with my (probably illegal) workaround. read more
MacUser (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
The 3 the latest comments published by users on DRM and Copyrights :
nitesh | 05/31/2008
Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is the tool of choice for preventing the theft of digital content and thus for ensuring a fair deal for content providers, network operations, and the paying public. With broadband becoming increasingly pervasive, telecom operators are pumping ever increasing amounts of content into customer’s set-top boxes, PDAs, I-pods, and mobile phones in the quest to ensure...
nitesh | 05/27/2008
Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is the tool of choice for preventing the theft of digital content and thus for ensuring a fair deal for content providers, network operations, and the paying public. With broadband becoming increasingly pervasive, telecom operators are pumping ever increasing amounts of content into customer’s set-top boxes, PDAs, I-pods, and mobile phones in the quest to ensure...
traderthoughts.com | 01/14/2008
Traderthoughts.com submits: On January 10, Amazon.com announced the addition of Sony BMG Music Entertainment to its repertoire of labels available at Amazon MP3, the DRM-free music store of Amazon.com. With this deal, Amazon is now offering DRM-free MP3s from the four major music labels - EMI, Universal, Warner Music, and Sony BMG - and 33,000 independent labels. This deal puts Apple (iTunes) at a
