Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support

An anonymous reader writes "So, you thought you did well to support the fledgling music industry by purchasing your tracks legally from the Wal-Mart store? Well, forget about moving these tracks to a new PC! Since they started selling DRM-free tracks last year, there's no money to be made in maintaining the DRM support systems, and in fact, support is being shut down. Make sure you circumvent the restrictions by burning the tracks to an old-fashioned CD before Wal-mart 'will no longer be able to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.' Support ends October 9th."

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Moronic summaries and excessive gloating

[macraig]

Could this summary possibly be any more misleading and confusing? I had no idea what the actual source article was going to describe until I read it firsthand. I thought Slashdot had staff described as editors because they are actually capable of editing effectively?

As far as the subject of the article is concerned, could it possibly gloat any more? Could it possibly rub any more salt in wounds? Here's Wal-Mart, an evil corporation, finally in the process of doing the right thing (for admittedly less than pure reasons), and here's an article deriding the effort because the transition will negatively affect some people? Gimme a break.

I just lost a bit of respect for Cory Doctorow.