Yahoo! Music Store Closing


For the poor folks at Yahoo! who are still left, this just must hurt more and more every day that goes by.  Unfortunately they pain is nothing like the unknowing suckers who signed up for their DRM laden subscription based service will feel.

The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music 

Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it’s becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn’t the best way to monetize the music business online. What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though? When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past customers dependent on their music “phoning home” to get license approval before playing are out of luck. They’ll be able to continue playing purchased tracks on a single computer, until they make any changes to their operating system.

Yahoo! now encourages customers to burn their music files to CDs. That may not be a terribly onerous requirement, but the point is that when you purchased a license for songs, everyone really meant it when they said this might not last forever.

The rise and fall of the Yahoo! Music Store will make for an interesting story some day, but for now the DRM story is particularly important. …

This is just classic.  Yahoo! wont put out any software that will clean up their mess from here because it will get abused, so you’re stuck with that quickly dying version of XP for as long as you can enjoy that Jonas Brothers LP.


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