October 10, 2008
Engadget / Darren Murph
Filed under: Portable Audio
Back by popular demand, it's the Walmart DRM servers! You heard right -- just days after Wally World announced its plans to turn the screw on its digital rights management ...
October 10, 2008
Boing Boing / Cory Doctorow
After announcing that they'd be shutting off their DRM servers and nuking their customers' music collections, Wal*Mart has changed their mind.
October 10, 2008
Wired Top Stories / Eliot Van Buskirk
Wal-mart has pledged to continue supporting all the digital rights management-infected music it sold to unwitting consumers over the past five years.
October 10, 2008
Ars Technica / jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
Wal-Mart is the latest company to change its mind about pulling its DRM key servers offline.
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October 10, 2008
Gizmodo / Elaine Chow
When Walmart made a special effort to remind us why DRM'd music should always be avoided by shutting down their authentication servers, the response must have been deafening. The world's largest...
October 10, 2008
Shiny Shiny / LucyHedges
Play.com might have bruised Apple a little bit this week with the announcement of its Play.com DRM free digital download service - PlayDigital.
October 10, 2008
Hardware 2.0 / Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers’ music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to ...
October 10, 2008
BetaNews.Com
In what can only be described as another "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario, faced with the option of thousands of disgruntled customers, Wal-Mart is informing them it's decided to leave ...
October 10, 2008
AfterDawn.com
Last month we reported that Wal-Mart was shutting down its MP3 DRM servers, effectively killing off any music you have purchased from the retailer, unless you burn the music to CD and then rip it back ...
October 10, 2008
Geek.com / Doug Osborne
In a surprising turn of events, it appears that the demise of Walmart’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) Server has been put off for now, giving customers more time to scramble to save their DRM ...
October 10, 2008
CNET News.com | Tech news blog
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Reports out say the retail heavyweight will maintain digital rights management servers for the near future.
October 10, 2008
Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks
Wal-Mart issued a last-minute reprieve to customers potentially affected by its DRM server shutdown.
October 10, 2008
Tech Digest / Duncan Geere
Play.com has just become the second digital music retailer to join the DRM-free parade. The site, which previously sold CDs, DVDs and games, has added MP3s from Sony Music, Warner, and Universal.
October 10, 2008
Techdirt / Michael Masnick
A couple weeks back, we noted with surprise Wal-Mart's decision to turn off its DRM servers with little warning.
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October 11, 2008
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home / Paul Biba
The following is from a press release issued by Ipsos. What is interesting is not just iTunes incredible market lead, but the fact that two music services that are DRM-free are increasing their share.
October 11, 2008
NiNjASLiCE / Jennifer Walterscheit
Free Mp3 music downloads for Yoro and Yoon Wi The mp3 music is iPod and other mp3 players compatible and 100% legal.
October 11, 2008
MP3Board.com
Wal-mart has pledged to continue supporting all the digital rights management-infected music it sold to unwitting consumers over the past five years.
October 11, 2008
Science Addiction / Devanshu
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:
Major corporation launches music service with big PR blitz.
October 11, 2008
TechLime / Rajan
Walmart has backtracked on its decision to shut down the DRM servers authenticating music tracks purchased from its MP3 Downloads store.
October 11, 2008
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech / Michael Santo
By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
I wondered earlier how long it would take for Wal-Mart to decide that shutting down the DRM servers for its music store was a bad PR move.