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Yahoo! Unlimited Music To Be Severely Limited And By That I Mean Dead

DRM claims another: Yahoo! announced it was shutting down its Unlimited Music service on September 30, 2008 and that you'd better burn your tunes on a CD or else you're royally screwed.

They clearly learned nothing from Microsoft's DRM abortion: PlaysForSure, which Microsoft kindly repealed. It's about time Gates n' Co. bought Yahoo! and kept them from making errors like this.

Anyway, since your Unlimited Music is all encoded with DRM, and the servers that reauthorize music purchases are shutting down, there's no way for you to do keep your tunes. See, you can swap them from computer to computer. And you can't upgrade your computer, because that requires re-authorization, too. Gotta burn 'em, baby.

Now you're wondering why I put the iTunes logo up there. Mostly because I can't image anyone who doesn't use iTunes, therefore cannot fathom anyone reading this article will be personally effected by Yahoo!'s tumble down the stairs of shame.

Yahoo: Burn Your DRMed Tracks to CD Now [PC World]