Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music

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."

Comments

Surprising anyone would think this is okay.

[jbn-o]

No they didn't do the right thing. The right thing is to offer DRM-free music in a variety of formats (lossless included) in the first place under a license that allows non-commercial and verbatim sharing. Their decision to sell DRM-riddled music wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mistake that they're now rectifying to make amends. They're offering this to not look so bad in the eyes of the non-critical listeners who are too timid to ask for not being screwed in the first place.

When Yahoo! says "But Davis said Yahoo opted to shut down its system to avoid "delaying the inevitable." keep in mind that it's these same proprietors who said DRM was inevitable and we had all just better get used to it. It's not working out for them and they're running from DRM like rats from a sinking ship. Don't let them forget that they were ready to sell your interests (in actually doing reasonable things with media you purchased) down the river.

Re:Real player

[RobertM1968]

How is this offtopic? Experiences with Real Player were so unsatisfactory that many people I know won't use ever use a RealNetworks product. *buffering*

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