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Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It
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."
Come on, guys, what does it take so long to tag this story with the 'haha' tag??? Are you all asleep?
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Erm.. YSYRTSIYTIIIYPA (You Say You're Refusing To Say IANAL Yet There It Is In Your Post Anyways)
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Screw the customer! thats our motto. --RIAA
I bet their customers aren't chanting "Yahoo!" over this.
Yeah! When will there be an online music service that offers real costumer service? I want to know what music goes well with this pantomime lion suit.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
I've got perfectly legit CDs that I've had to re-rip recently because the DRM on them - I forgot to uncheck the box in media player :( - don't know why that happened but the wma's (I know, I know, I just assumed it would do them in mp3) simply won't play any more.
You thought you could break the laws of physics without paying the PRICE?
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(oh man, i'm going to be a millionaire! it works for the music industry!)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"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!
I am glad you (and others, including the once using IANAL) point this out as it is my understanding that unless specified, you ARE a lawyer and I always take whatever I read online as legal advice.
(Oh, IANAL)
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
http://www.last.fm/music/Tight+Fit/_/The+Lion+Sleeps+Tonight
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
costumer-friendly allofmp3.com
Costumes? I love costumes! I'll start buying music there right away!
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"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 ?
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Or maybe they are chanting Yahoo! at the people running Yahoo, signifying that they are a bunch of Yahoos. In the sense of Gulliver's Travels that is.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Don't be silly, we're not going to arrest you. We're throwing a party for you! There will be cake and you will be the guest of honor. Now, just stay there and a party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.