Yahoo Ending DRM; Not in a Good Way
Yahoo Music sent out a notice yesterday to all the users of the Yahoo Music Store letting them know, amongst other things, that they’d be shutting down their DRM servers in September. As Dave over at Evil Genius Chronicles so emphatically put it today, it is yet another reason why you should never purchase music that includes digital rights management.
The only way after September you’ll be able to move your music around or play it is if you decide to burn your music to compact disk and re-import it to your machine (or alternatively bust the DRM with an underground tool). This is because every time you use your purchased music, your player will go attempt to go out and ping the Yahoo DRM server to verify proper ownership. When it is no longer there, your player will simply assume you’re a pirate and not play the music.
Interestingly enough, this circumvention by CD method was the course of action suggested by Yahoo in the service’s fairwell email to its users. Continue Reading Yahoo Ending DRM; Not in a Good Way
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