Todaywasawesome award: Yahoo Music
July 25th, 2008 8:25 am

That’s right! Yahoo Music has won a todaywasawesome award for the category of advancement of anti-DRM. Yahoo music recently announced that they’re going to disable their DRM servers. That’s great, just that much less DRM in the world! Whoo!

Wait…they did what?!

Apparently Yahoo isn’t just disabling their DRM servers, they’ve gone the EXTRA MILE and are going to be disabling all the music that anyone has bought with their service! Not only will there be less DRM in this world but less DRM music! What a break through for digital rights to have Yahoo leading the the way in doing away with DRM technology.

But seriously, they should get an award

At least they’re proving, by stealing all of their users music, that DRM is a failure wherever it’s implemented. Here’s a breakdown in who gets robbed in DRM and non DRM situations.

DRM situations: The consumer is robbed of things they already paid for.
Non-DRM situations: No one is robbed of anything.

I’d like to announce that I’m also nominating Yahoo for biggest douche of the year award as well.

UPDATE Yahoo has vowed to reimburse customers. I guess it could be worse.

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brikon
July 25th, 2008 8:49 pm

Yay for douches! Wait a sec, what does DMR stand for again?

Dan
July 25th, 2008 9:58 pm

Digital Rights Management, as in the creators of content have the rights to manage your digital content and take away those rights.

So, for instance, if iTunes decides to change formats you can loose all your rights to the music you’ve bought. They can also decide what you can do with that content.

Example, to get make a song a ringtone for your iphone you’re supposed to pay an extra 99 cents even though you technically already have the legal right to do whatever you want with that song as long as its for personal use.

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