Tuesday, September 9, 2008

DRM still sucks, Yahoo Music

On July 23rd when Yahoo emailed its costemers that starting on this coming september 30th the DRM music would no longer be avaliable for downloads. Also, the article (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080724-drm-still-sucks-yahoo-music-going-dark-taking-keys-with-it.html) states that if a user transfers to a new computer, the already owned tracks will not be able to play on the new computer. SO essentialy, Yahoo is taking away something the consumer already technically owns. To me this is comparable to buying a television at your local electronic store, then having the company come take the tv away a year later, for no reason, without a refund of any sort. By putting more limitations and less acess to legal drm music downloads and the relativly small percentage of people who download 100 percent legaly, more and more are turning to illegal downloads, which is hurting the profit of the music industy way more then making cheap legal downloads avaliable to the increasingly technology proficient high school and college aged kids. To be fair, even though yahoo drm will be shutting down, the four major music download companies will remain with little roadblcoks.

4 comments:

Patrick T said...

I feel bad for one of those guys who has spent like 100's of dollars on his music collection (not sure if any one has done that from yahoo or not) and now that poor guys is doomed to live with the same computer with the same OS till he wants to re-buy his entire collection.

Matt Dudek said...

As someone who used Yahoo Music for about a week, the whole interface was shakey. I am glad that they are finally admitting defeat. But as Patrick said, it does suck to have wasted money on all the music which is now gone forever.

Catherine Malcolm said...

It seems like issues like these are a reason why some people just illegally download music instead. It's somewhat justified. Paid music is being taken away from someone whose rightfully paid for the rights of select songs, technically they could just keep the same machine, but they realistically know that doesn't happen. So is that just not paying attention to the thoughts of all the consumers stuck with the same problem which could have been avoided all together...

patmahoney123 said...

I agree with catherine, because of problems like this, people have, and will continue to illegally download music. While there are ways to save your music, its still a pain, and unfair to those who actually followed the laws, and legally purchased their music.