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Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-music-for-you dept.

DrEnter writes "According to this article, Yahoo will offer some compensation after they turn off their DRM servers and Yahoo Music customers will no longer be able to access their music. The company said Wednesday it is offering coupons on request for people to buy songs again through Yahoo's new partner, RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody. Those songs will be in the MP3 format, free of copy protection. Refunds are available for users who 'have serious problems with this arrangement,' Yahoo said. Nice to see them step up and do something, especially without trading one DRM scheme for another."

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  1. Re:One day by drcagn · · Score: 4, Informative

    I didn't even RTFA and I still understood this:

    Refunds are available for users who "have serious problems with this arrangement," Yahoo said.

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  2. Re:Real player by hax0r_this · · Score: 4, Informative

    As shitty as Real Player is, Real Networks isn't such a bad company. Their Helix media framework is mostly open source, and they gave $500,000 to the OSU Open Source Lab a few years back for their work in using it on the OLPC project.

  3. Re:Real player by shark72 · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's funny and all, but in case anybody takes you seriously... Rhapsody sells MP3 files now. Real, honest-to-goodness MP3 files; no killer bees required.

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