Ah, Wal-Mart, the company everyone loves to hate (and then buy their Pantene from for $1.19. Well, there's a big of a web kerfuffle over the WalMart DRM music service. Now, if you bought MP3s, all is well, and you can go back to watching Two and a half men. But if you have purchased WMAs, you're in a mess a trouble.
So what does that mean? Well, if you bought WMA format music from WalMart, the DRM verification services will no longer work after October 9. Meaning that you will only be able to listen to them on the computer from which you purchased them. Otherwise, they no workie.
Here's the explanation from ReadWriteWeb:
DRM restrictions ties all of your songs to your computer. To sum things up, customers will now have to back-up all of their downloads or risk losing them all. Because of the DRM restrictions on these files, you won't be able to transfer their music anywhere else. If you were to reinstall your operating system or simply purchase a new computer, Wal-Mart's shutdown of their DRM server would prevent you from taking your music somewhere else.
Yahoo Music buyers went through all this a while back. Fortuinately they gave people a partial refund. Will Bentonville?
Are you loving DRM right now?
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