Yahoo! to compensate DRM-protected Music Store customers
By Darren Murph 
posted July 26th 2008 4:58PM
posted July 26th 2008 4:58PM
Hey, both of you Yahoo! Music Store customers, listen up. Just hours after Yahoo! affirmed that it would be powering down its DRM servers, along comes a spokesperson to alleviate any worries that you two will get screwed in all of this. According to Carrie Davis, customers "will be compensated for whatever they paid for the music," and she continued on to state that Yahoo "had not yet decided what exactly it would do, but it would take care of its customers." Some of the possible options include getting cash back for the money spent on tracks or receiving MP3 versions of the jams sans DRM (we'd take the former, thanks). Depressingly, there doesn't seem to be a definitive time table laid out just yet for the restitution process.
Low self-esteem?
"well, I bought the 8-Track version of Peter Frampton Comes Alive back in the day so I should be allowed to own/download any future version released by the record labels."
No, but you could hook your 8-track up to the computer and record it. Legal? Probably not... but who cares? You're in your home. Record away.
I'd love to see the court case where they prove that you have an illegal Peter Frampton MP3 on your computer, then you show them the 8-track. They will say it's piracy. But A&M Records never made an MP3, so is it still piracy?
Burning DRM tracks to CD and ripping them is the same thing. If it's in your home, go ahead.
Best wishes to Yahoo!
Everything Yahoo! touches goes to suck. It's official.
This update just proves that DRM isn't the issue here - its yahoo's business practice. Would you ban all skateboards just because some people get hurt?
It's not there ^, but it is here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/27/infineon-ceo-wants-to-sell-flagging-qimonda-unit-badly/
Huzzah!
DRM wanted to be a solution to a problem that can't be solved that easily. Many authors, like this one http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=530&doc_id=138849&f_src=flffour think that DRM doesn't belong in the online marketplace.
Yahoo is suggesting that uses can transfer to Rhapsody, which I've been using like forever. Here also you own the songs, and can burn CD's for your selections. You can also buy albums. The thing I like about Rhapsody, is that you don't have to buy the the whole album to buy individual song. You can just add the songs to the mixer and buy them that way. Once they are in your library you can mix and match to burn your own CD.It;s a bit more expensive , being $99 year, buy it's just a better service than Yahoo.