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Walmart To Close Online Music Store

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @09:46AM from the survival-of-the-most-convenient dept.

UnknowingFool writes "Beginning August 28, 2011 Walmart will close its online downloadable music store. After eight years, Walmart will no longer offer music for download but will still sell physical music formats. Walmart will keep their DRM servers online for customers that purchased their music with DRM. Despite having cheaper music, the store's market is tiny compared to No. 1 and 2, Apple and Amazon respectively."

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Re:This may not do it...but a little longer... by Lunix+Nutcase · 2011-08-10 10:46 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why would they need to keep DRM servers for music that they sell with no DRM? Or are you one of those idiots who missed the memo and didn't realize that iTunes music has been DRM-free for nearly 2 years now?