Wal-Mart Still Suffering from DRM-itis
Wired reports that Wal-Mart has decided to keep the music that it sold embedded with a layer of copyright protection playable even after the company shuts down its DRM servers, after enough customers complained that the shutdown would render their files unplayable.
“The company probably wishes it had never tangled with digital rights management, because it’s going to keep paying for it long after its switch to selling DRM-free MP3s.”
Previously, the company had said that everyone should burn copies of their purchased music files to CD and then re-import them into a computer.
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