Walmart shutting off DRM servers, turning over a new leaf

Walmart began selling DRM-free tracks in its music store in August of last year. 13 months later, the mega-corp has decided to follow the footsteps of so many others and hit the kill switch on its DRM management servers. As noted in an e-mail to customers, Wally World will be making the final transition into a fully DRM-free MP3 store on October 9th, and in order to keep those DRM-laden files playable on anything, it's recommended that you burn protected files on a CD on the double. If you choose to ignore this message, you'll be unable to "transfer your songs to other computers or access your songs after changing or reinstalling your operating system or in the event of a system crash." Heed the warning, kids.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 28th 2008 11:10PM]

Why can't Walmart and Yahoo just release a DRM-stripper?

[TheZorch Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:03AM]

Wow, this is just about every online music outlet now that's ditched DRM. Now iTunes needs to be next. Steve Jobs has been wanting to drop DRM for good for a while now. He can use this as ammo to get the recording industry to finally let him drop the copy protection, because if he takes it to court there is enough evidence to pretty much prove the RIAA is playing favorites in the market and a judge would definitely side with Apple on this.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2008 4:19AM]

This DRM stuff is killing me!!!

I do not live in the US anymore so I could care less about the breaking US law and removing DRM for personal use.

DRM no DRM…. I just want to be able to play my media on any platform that I choose. DRM is like going into your local stereo shop and having to

purchase a DVD player for each movie studio.

So now I found a great decission - MelodyCan converter (http://www.melodycan.com) which helps me to resolve drm-protection problem.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2008 4:10AM]

Strange, I remember when Microsoft did this it was a bad thing...