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Walmart has a change of heart, decides to maintain DRM servers

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 ...

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WalMart now says they'll keep the DRM servers on forever

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.

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Wal-Mart's DRM Nightmare Just Won't End

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.

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Wal-Mart joins MSN and Yahoo, leaves DRM servers online

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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A (Virtual) Player Bill of Rights? [Law]

October 11, 2008

Kotaku / Maggie Greene

There's an interesting article over at The Escapist on the rights of players in virtual worlds — covering a myriad of issues (recourse for theft, ownership of items, DRM, etc) on a global ...

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Having trouble installing DRM book

October 11, 2008

Mobility Site / sk8z27

I have purchased two e-books several years ago and am having problems trying to load them onto my x30 that i've brought out of retirement. I did a hard reset on my x30.

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Is photography opening eyes, or shutting them?

October 12, 2008

Universal Rule

I'm now at 5967 photos taken with my Panasonic LX3 camera, and I'm every once in a while thinking whether photography is a good hobby after all.

DRM: Bad for you, expensive for companies

October 12, 2008

Artima Developer Buzz

DRM pretty much sucks for everyone. The latest to discover how large a pile of suckage it is? Wal-Mart.

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Walmart Changes Mind on DRM, Keeps Servers Running [Walmart]

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...

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Play.com offers cheaper DRM free downloads than iTunes

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.

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Consumers score a partial win against Walmart

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 ...

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Wal-Mart changes its mind, leaves existing DRM servers up

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 ...

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Wal-Mart decides to maintain DRM servers

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 ...

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Walmart decides to leave DRM Servers on…for now

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 ...

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Wal-Mart reverses policy on DRM?

October 10, 2008

CNET News.com | Tech news blog - Category:

Reports out say the retail heavyweight will maintain digital rights management servers for the near future.

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Wal-Mart keeps DRM servers on amid backlash

October 10, 2008

Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks

Wal-Mart issued a last-minute reprieve to customers potentially affected by its DRM server shutdown.

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Play.com joins 7digital in the DRM-free corner

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.

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Surprise, Surprise: WalMart Changes Its Mind, Keeps DRM Servers Running (For Now)

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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DRM-free music services increasing market share

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.

Free Yoro and Yoon Wi Mp3 Music Downloads

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.

Wal-Mart's DRM Nightmare Just Won't End...

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.

Don’t Turn the DRM Lights Out

October 11, 2008

Science Addiction / Devanshu

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Major corporation launches music service with big PR blitz.

Walmart Drm Servers Get A Reprieve

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.

Wal-Mart Reverses Course; Will Maintain DRM Servers

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.

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