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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."
It also means that Wallmart, Apple and Amazon are all pushing for non DRM music.
Apple will never do a DRM free iTunes, they need DRM to lock people into being forced to keep buying Apple products in the future, or throw away all that money you spent on iTunes. Even if everyone else dropped DRM overnight, Apple would fight tooth and nail to keep it. Right now they can tune the reality distortion filter so that the people blame the nasty record companies for forcing DRM.
What's shocking is that people actually used Wal-Mart's crappy, censored, DRM filled, and buggy service in the first place. Who are these people? Where do they live? And can we somehow take away their right vote?
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.