http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/ Engadget Comments for Yahoo! offers up coupons and refunds to DRM server-shutdown victims http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/
Still, nice of Yahoo! to step up on this one, I suppose.]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/
No more of a long term commitment, I imagine, than using any other MP3 storefront.

And, yeah... the files are MP3. I don't think Rhapsody's used Real Audio for a few years now.]]>Jul 31st 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/
The Rhapsody client is IMHO easier to use than YMJ, and its less crashy. Rhapsody has more music than Yahoo does. Its recommendations engine also seems to be better.

I'm a former Yahoo music customer -- I only used it for streaming, I never bought any music, and it was cheap -- and the changeover has been a good deal for me. I have no complaints at all. ]]>Jul 31st 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Aug 7th 2008 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/
Yahoo Music users purchased a license to listen to specific music in a specific format. Yahoo announced that they were disallowing use of those licenses without recompense.

They are now offering something of different value subjective to whether your opinion of the file format provided by Rhapsody relative to the lack of DRM is more or less valuable than what was purchased from Yahoo and whether all of the purchased songs are available on the Rhapsody..

The refund is the appropriate action for anyone who believes that the value of this option is lesser than the value they had with Yahoo.

It's got nothing to do with litigiousness although in our current system, legal action is often the only recourse that a consumer has against absurd corporate actions.

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GTMac: Thank you for saving me the trouble of explaining something as simple as a "refund policy" to Bearshite.]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Jul 31st 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Aug 1st 2008 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/
Hopefully the record companies will be pushed into realizing we'll pay for music, not restrictions.]]>Jul 31st 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/Aug 1st 2008 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/yahoo-offers-up-coupons-and-refunds-to-drm-server-shutdown-vict/
Good job Yahoo!.]]>Aug 1st 2008 1:54AM