Goodbye DRM Music, As Yahoo Music Store Closes
By Anna Johnson on July 28th, 2008Consumers don’t like it and they ain’t buying it. Digital rights management or DRM music that is.
Selling DRM music – music formats where “digital rights management” or “DRM” technologies restrict users’ ability to access, copy or convert the music into other formats – has increasingly become nonviable, as consumers turn to services providing music without restrictions. And in what may signal the end of the DRM music industry, Yahoo Music Store, a major purveyor of DRM music, will close on September 30, 2008.
