Hooooray, Wal-Mart! Your MP3's Are Worthless Now Too!
Apparently deciding that Yahoo and Microsoft couldn't be left alone in the screwing over customers department, Wal-Mart has also decided to shut down its DRM verification servers. In about a week. So, like Yahoo and MS before it, if you've purchased DRMed songs from Wally World within the, you need to burn the songs to disc in a week or lose them forever.
This, in my mind, has the potential to be the most disastrous failure of the DRM model yet. I can't imagine that the Wal-Mart set is the most tech savvy in the world, so explaining to them that they need to burn their music on to a CD now could be interesting. But then, it can't be all bad. The world really shouldn't miss the largest collection of digital hillbilly country music.
Well folks, there we have it. DRM sucks. And, once again, the people that actually paid for the product are the ones that have to suffer, meanwhile the pirates of the world still have no problem transferring songs from one MP3 player to the next. Fantastic!
Wal-Mart latest store to shut DRM key servers [Ars Technica]
Jesse James
Posted to On Your Desk on 29 September 2008
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