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Walmart To Close Online Music Store

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Re:In before... by guruevi · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's the media's fault. Both Amazon and Apple have succeeded due to a relatively DRM free environment. I remember some people trying the WalMart site and complaining that they couldn't play it on their particular device because it wasn't blessed by Microsoft. Then they shut down their DRM servers effectively corrupting every customers library, after that they never recovered

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