Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It 396
iminplaya writes with a link to an excellent article at Ars Technica, extracting from it a few choice nuggets: "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. Sure, it's bad news and yet another example of the sheer lobotomized brain-deadness that has characterized music DRM, but the reaction of most music fans will be: 'Yahoo had an online music store?'... DRM makes things harder for legal users; it creates hassles that illegal users won't deal with; it (often) prevents cross-platform compatibility and movement between devices. In what possible world was that a good strategy for building up the nascent digital download market? The only possible rationales could be 1) to control piracy (which, obviously, it has had no effect on, thanks to the CD and the fact that most DRM is broken) or 2) to nickel-and-dime consumers into accepting a new pay-for-use regime that sees moving tracks from CD to computer to MP3 player as a 'privilege' to be monetized."
Haha? (Score:5, Funny)
Come on, guys, what does it take so long to tag this story with the 'haha' tag??? Are you all asleep?
Re:People are still buying DRMd music. (Score:3, Funny)
Linux is illegal! You are breaking the law, and hurting yourself and your family with your ILLEGAL SOFTWARE. Your ip has been noted and is being forwarded to the SPA with a reccomendation that they investigate your CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. Please destroy all your unpatriotic linux software before the government finally cracks down on you people and you all end up as lampshades or soap.
Re:Question! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the real criminals (Score:1, Funny)
Screw the customer! thats our motto. --RIAA
Re:Excellent news! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:the real criminals (Score:5, Funny)
Re:People are still buying DRMd music. (Score:2, Funny)
i have an excellent comment to make (Score:5, Funny)
please send $5 to my pay pal account to read my comment
(oh man, i'm going to be a millionaire! it works for the music industry!)
Re:Well duh? (Score:5, Funny)
"Children won't be rediscovering momy and daddys 20 year old records in the future. DRM could cause an entire generations music to be lost."
Oh no! How will our descendants survive without being able to appreciate the lyrical genius of K-Fed, NSYNC, and My Chemical Romance? It really is the end of the world!
Re:i have an excellent comment to make (Score:5, Funny)
*torrents comment*
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Here's one for you - now thats costumer service.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:the real criminals (Score:1, Funny)
costumer-friendly allofmp3.com
Costumes? I love costumes! I'll start buying music there right away!
[batman-theme.mp3]
Re:People are still buying DRMd music. (Score:4, Funny)
"Equating Libertarianism to greed is a bit like equating free speech to hate speech."
As opposed to a Libertarian equating a waiting list for a movie from the public library to a Stalin-era Soviet Union breadline [rebirthofreason.com]?
Re:Excellent news! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:People are still buying DRMd music. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Haha? (Score:3, Funny)
Come on, guys, what does it take so long to tag this story with the 'haha' tag??? Are you all asleep?
Yes.