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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. "Walmart will keep its DRM servers online" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For how long?

  2. Re:Wait, Wal-mart sells stuff online? by jhoegl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If by Anti-capitalist you mean someone who supports small businesses over the larger, who supports a company with creativity instead of stealing ideas of small businesses, who treats their employees fairly instead of paying men more and women less, who supports competition to better the community, and who does not like the idea that jobs were forced overseas by Walmart to reduce the cost of products sold there causing "slave labor" camps in those respective countries, then yes.... I think that is what he means.

    Oh, and I dont shop at Walmart either.