Wal-Mart Joins DRM Dumping Party
Last December, Wal-Mart killed off its ailing online video service, leaving the digital rights management (DRM) intact so that buyers were stuck with useless movies that only played on the original computer they were purchased on. Now Engadget reports that the mega-retailer is doing the same thing to its music customers.
“[Wal-Mart] has decided to follow the footsteps of so many others and hit the kill switch on its DRM management servers. As noted in an e-mail to customers, Wally World will be making the final transition into a fully DRM-free MP3 store on October 9th, and in order to keep those DRM-laden files playable on anything, it’s recommended that you burn protected files on a CD on the double.”
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