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Ruckus Closes Down

Posted by timothy on Monday February 9, 2009 @01:10AM from the long-overdue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to TechCrunch, Ruckus, the ad-supported music service targeted at college students, has closed down for good. Ruckus was notable for its poorly-designed client software and .wma-only DRM-laden catalog of 3,000,000 tracks, somewhat less than half the size of the iTunes catalog."

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Re:Never used it. But... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2009-02-09 01:33 · Score: 4, Informative

I strongly suspect that WMA was a really big deal. Remember WMA DRM = Doesn't work on iPods. Based on the usual market share numbers, that is pretty much a dealbreaker for over half the population(and college students are probably more likely than the population at large to be using iPods).