Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music 143
DrEnter writes "According to this article, Yahoo will offer some compensation after they turn off their DRM servers and Yahoo Music customers will no longer be able to access their music. The company said Wednesday it is offering coupons on request for people to buy songs again through Yahoo's new partner, RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody. Those songs will be in the MP3 format, free of copy protection. Refunds are available for users who 'have serious problems with this arrangement,' Yahoo said. Nice to see them step up and do something, especially without trading one DRM scheme for another."
Re:One day (Score:4, Informative)
Did you even read the summary? They're offering refunds to those who have problems with accepting the MP3 downloads.
Re:One day (Score:5, Informative)
Refunds are available for users who "have serious problems with this arrangement," Yahoo said.
Re:Real player (Score:5, Informative)
Re:About Time (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Remove DRM (Score:3, Informative)
Without the license server up, you'd likely have to crack or backdoor the DRM somehow, which would end up being a blanket solution applicable to a wide range of other WMAs. I doubt any respectable player the size and stature of Yahoo! would do such a thing, and they might even be DMCA-liable if they did.
Re:Real player (Score:5, Informative)
That's funny and all, but in case anybody takes you seriously... Rhapsody sells MP3 files now. Real, honest-to-goodness MP3 files; no killer bees required.
Re:Do they offer a complete library to choose from (Score:3, Informative)
``Any affected customers want to tell us if they think they can have their entire library transfered over?''
Have it transfered over? No. Rather, they'll have to download every single song all over again, manually, if they want to rebuild their collection. And that is only even possible if (1) the library the coupons give access to has all those songs and (2) the coupons are enough to pay for all that.
Alternatively, of course, they could pay out of their own pocket to download the songs from a different service. Or download them for free from various services. Or hope that someone will release some software that allows them to play the songs they already downloaded and paid for.
Warning!: Ice cream analogy (Score:0, Informative)
"Now this is just my opinion. But I believe it as fact."
Well, which is it? Opinion or fact?
I believe chocolate to have a better taste than vanilla. That is just my opinion. And I believe it is not a fact, but just an opinion. I also believe chocolate has better health benefits than vanilla. That is just my opinion. But I believe it as a fact.
What GP is saying is simple: I *know* this is an opinion (mine) but I *believe* it to be a fact too - much more likely true than false. To ask the same person "which is it?" is to have totally misconstrued the point.