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Yahoo! Sells, Advocates DRM-Free Music
prostoalex writes "Jessica Simpson's 'A Public Affair' will be sold on Yahoo! Music in MP3 format with no DRM attached. According to Yahoo! Music blog, this is a big deal for the major online music store: 'As you know, we've been publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for a while now. Our position is simple: DRM doesn't add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day -- the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform. We've also been saying that DRM has a cost. It's very expensive for companies like Yahoo! to implement. We'd much rather have our engineers building better personalization, recommendations, playlisting applications, community apps, etc, instead of complex provisioning systems which at the end of the day allow you to burn a CD and take the DRM back off, anyway!'"
Nope yahoo is going down the drain faster than a toliet flushes.
They have "improved" their message boards and the users are fleeing in terror. people complained yahoo told them the polite version of go fsck off. The investors who used to use Yahoo daily for information, are selling like mad and leaving in droves.
This token gesture is to little to late.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Well then they're idiots. Some record companies/artists are going to get it and sell us DRM-free music, the rest can keep dicking around and push themselves right out of business when noone can access their music any more.