Yahoo!’s music downloads to become obsolete
Yahoo! music will close the doors on its music-download store on September 30, taking its DRM keys with it. This means that any music downloads bought from Yahoo! won’t be able to be played on any other computer than the one they were downloaded to.
Yahoo! has come up with the odd solution of burning the files to CD and then ripping them back onto your computer.
This is certainly a roundabout way of getting your value for money on music downloads bought from Yahoo! It’s similar to when Microsoft rolled out its Zune and shut down its own store for music downloads.
This is a clear indication of how sucky DRM music is. Hopefully DRM will soon be a thing of the past as it is nothing but a headache for the end user. For all the time and money spent creating DRM files, it appears to have largely been a waste of resources.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:11 am
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