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Yahoo Returns Stolen Money Old Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:01:30 AM #69511 Perm Link
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Did that headline grab your attention? <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10000921-93.html">Yahoo will refund money to people that bought DRM stricken music that can no longer be played</a>. This is an important trend. Companies are finally seeing that DRM is not the right way to do things.

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And surprisingly, EFF doesn't necessarily want Microsoft to also offer refunds. After Microsoft shuttered MSN Music, the company announced last spring that it would stop issuing DRM keys. After being criticized, Microsoft decided to continue supporting its music for three more years. McSherry said that Microsoft's decision ensures that customers get what they paid for. That's all EFF wanted.

"In both cases, each of the companies has been forced to acknowledge they must do right by their customers," McSherry said. "I do hope that any other vendor (selling DRM-protected media), learns a lesson. They all must live up to the conditions that they set when they sold their music."


The point is that once you buy DRM content from a company, if that company decides to stop its DRM key delivery service, your content is garbage. That's what is happening here. This is why it is important to keep open files only. All of your iTunes purchases will be backed by Apple even when the company goes under, right?

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(No Title) Old Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:24:20 PM #69547 Perm Link
Well i am glad they deiced to refund instead of saying a big "fuck you" to everyone who bought the Music.
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(No Title) Old Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:58:33 PM #69615 Perm Link
That is why you just torrent music. Lol.
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(No Title) Old Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:28:53 PM #69621 Perm Link
Yeah.
i don't want to pay for something that's not mine.
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(No Title) Old Wed Aug 6, 2008 8:26:45 PM #71040 Perm Link
Thats sad.I hardly download music as much as i used to.I go to the record store for my music now.

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(No Title) Old Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:41:33 AM #242933 Perm Link
wow ,why so mean ??
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