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> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> EFF: Yahoo Music should compensate customers
>>
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>> | Yahoo Music is telling customers that it won't allow users who
>> | bought songs from the service to transfer them to new devices or
>> | PCs after September 30.
>> `----
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>>
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999244-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>
> Also related:
>
> [quote]
> Things that you buy are supposed to stay purchased. But you can't count
> on that if your property is a video or audio download "protected" by
> copy-control software: If somebody unplugs the so-called digital rights
> management system enforcing those controls, you can lose access to your
> purchase.
>
> The latest example comes from Major League Baseball's MLB.com site. When
> it changed DRM systems earlier this year, it made older game downloads
> unplayable--but MLB did nothing to remedy the situation until Red Sox
> fan Allan Wood complained about it enough times on his blog.
> [/quote]
>
>
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2007/11/baseballs_drm_strikes_out_1.html
>
>
> [quote]
> Got this lovely e-mail from the fine folks at Google Video today. The
> one Deep Space Nine video I bought from them isn't really mine after
> all. It turns out they're shutting off all Google Videos after August
> 15. That's right, if you bought a video from Google Video store, looks
> like you won't be able to watch it after that date. Yep, even though you
> paid for it. Ain't DRM lovely? They were nice enough to give me a credit
> I can use at Google Checkout, but no actual refund.
> [/quote]
>
> http://www.cnettv.com/8301-13415_53-9758572-11.html
>
>
> [quote]
> Google selleth then taketh away, proving the need for DRM circumvention
>
> It's not often that Google kills off one of its services, especially one
> which was announced with much fanfare at a big mainstream event like CES
> 2006. Yet Google Video's commercial aspirations have indeed been
> terminated: the company has announced that it will no longer be selling
> video content on the site. The news isn't all that surprising, given
> that Google's commercial video efforts were launched in rather poor
> shape and never managed to take off. The service seemed to only make the
> news when embarrassing things happened.
>
> Yet now Google Video has given us a gift—a "proof of concept" in the
> form of yet another argument against DRM—and an argument for more
> reasonable laws governing copyright controls. How could Google's failure
> be our gain? Simple. By picking up its marbles and going home, Google
> just demonstrated how completely bizarre and anti-consumer DRM
> technology can be. Most importantly, by pulling the plug on the service,
> Google proved why consumers have to be allowed to circumvent copy controls.
> [/quote]
>
>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070812-google-selleth-then-taketh-away-proving-the-need-for-drm-circumvention.html
>
>
> [quote]
> Why (And How) I Just Canceled All My Music Subscriptions
>
> Now that three of the four major labels have decided to sell music
> without DRM, I've finally decided to drop it too. I've subscribed to
> Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music, and other music services over the years,
> but I canceled them all on Thursday as a sort of preemptive new year's
> resolution.
> [/quote]
>
> http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/12/why-and-how-i-c.html
>
> It seems to be a common trend.
>
> DRM is dead (are you listening, MSBBC?).
*Erik Huggers puts headphones back on*
"La la la... Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft..."
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