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Yahoo Music shutting down its DRM server, customers lose all their paid-for music the next time they crash or upgrade

Posted By Bryan Andrews On July 25, 2008 @ 10:09 am In Articles | No Comments

The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good—and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September 30, 2008. Sure, it’s bad news and yet another example of the sheer lobotomized brain-deadness that has characterized music DRM, but the reaction of most music fans will be: “Yahoo had an online music store?”

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