1) Buy DRM 2) Get Shafted

[sparr]

Ars has the latest story of DRM gone bad. Yahoo is taking their music DRM key servers offline. I know, "nobody" cares. But this is yet another in a long string of cases of customers getting screwed out of being able to listen to (or watch) media they paid for. You don't care now, but when the iTunes store revokes the keys that let you listen to all the music you "bought", or Sony disables your Blu-Ray player, then maybe it will hit home. Don't say I didn't warn you.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080724-drm-still-sucks-yahoo-music-going-dark-taking-keys-with-it.html

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

Comments

[notnormal23224.livejournal.com]

DRM is indeed a plague, and legal robbery. "Buy music and when we go under, or just change business partners, you have to buy it again, joy!" Totally not worth it.

Technically Yahoo since they are staying in the music business with Rhapsody they should provide their previous customers with free downloads of re-authorized music from the new service, heck the courts should order them to do just that.

[pwrmacjedi.livejournal.com]

I have never disputed your point here, I have just stuck to the fact that Apple does it BEST. And if this doomsdays arrives, I will be able to burn all my shit onto disc before the axe drops and then re-import with glee.

I'd rather have the record companies at the table and live with some compromises.