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Walmart Caves On DRM Removal
cmunic8r99 writes in with an email he received from walmart.com yesterday evening about the pending shutdown of their DRM services (which we discussed a while back). Walmart has reconsidered and won't be shutting off its DRM servers after all. They are still moving to an all-MP3 store, but won't break all the DRMed music its customers have already downloaded; this because of "feedback from the customers."
to strip the files of DRM they wish to retain control(or get sued heavily by angry people with useless files) of the ability of the user to play DRMed music files.
Walmart should have offered to strip any files and then stop using DRM. The users are no stuck the an uneasy status quo as well as Walmart.
yay for drm
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Re-tagged as : Business as usual in the U$A
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
lawyers do good things, lawyers do bad things... You say lawsuits make companies care about us more, but it can also work the other way and americas approach is too lax with frivolous lawsuits the norm. How many times has an undeserving citizen been sued for some frivolous reason? How many times has a smaller business been sued by a bigger one on the back of a frivolous patent claim? How many times has a lawyer convinced a judge with a clever argument, to make something crazy law? Corporations even got a judge to allow them to patent new life forms. I could go on and on...but to cut it short, american society is overall far too unbalanced . Ya'll were conned by ronald reagan big time. And now the system might be so corrupted, the american people so brainwashed, that obama might not be able to fix it.