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July 31, 2008

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Yahoo makes good on DRM debacle

Posted Jul. 31, ’08, 8:02 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Music

yahoomusic.jpgRemember last week’s news that Yahoo was locking down all of their music and throwing away the keys? It looks like they’re not entirely staffed by heartless, soulless minions of digital rights management orthodoxy. One might be tempted to even perhaps exclaim. “Yay!” one might say. Or something along those lines.

According to a report in the Associated Press, Yahoo has come up with a transition plan for those customers affected by the shutdown of the company’s music license servers. Yahoo will provide coupons that allow customers to re-purchase their music from Yahoo’s new music partner, Rhapsody, in untainted MP3 format. The coupons are not track-specific—i.e., you could buy different music from Napster, if you suddenly decide that all those Sugar Ray songs you bought several years ago no longer are quite your cup of crap tea.

You can pick up some coupons (or, if you don’t want more music, a refund) by contacting Yahoo’s customer care department. Tell them we said “hi.”

[via Consumerist]


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