Walmart Shuts Down MP3 Store, Taking Your Music with It

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by Jordan Yerman | September 27, 2008 at 10:30 am
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Guidelines for buying DRMed music:
1. Don't.

Those who do not follow the above risk losing the music they supposedly bought when the vendor changes its technology, retools the Digital Rights Management, or simply folds, as with Walmart.

Like Yahoo and MSN before them, Walmart is turning off its DRM servers on Oct. 9, effectively putting any DRM'd songs you bought from them into a cold stasis they'll never wake up from, since they'll become totally unmovable unless you circumvent the DRM.

Source: gizmodo.com

Piracy or buying the CD: the only ways to be sure that it's really yours. In fact, Walmart agrees, suggesting that you pirate the tracks that you bought from them:

If you have purchased protected WMA music files from our site prior to Feb 2008, we strongly recommend that you back up your songs by burning them to a recordable audio CD. By backing up your songs, you will be able to access them from any personal computer.

Source: gizmodo.com

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Song lyrics. Artists biography. Find your favourite lyrics, song-texts, artists biography and reviews http://westsounds.com/

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