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Yahoo Music to offer refunds, what about MSN?

James7   via cnet.com on 30 July 2008 - 15:42 · 17 comments & 5959 views

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Yahoo Music is offering refunds to anyone who bought songs from the service. Is it time for MSN Music follow Yahoo's lead?

Yahoo announced last week that it would no longer issue authorization keys for the digital rights management, or DRM, software on its songs. This meant that anyone who bought songs from the service would still be able to hear their songs through its service but would be unable to move them to other devices or computers.

This did not play well with Web users. Now Yahoo Music plans to issue refunds and is trying to go one step further. If a customer would prefer music over a refund, Yahoo is looking for a way to give the customer copies of the purchased songs in the DRM-free MP3 format, according to a Yahoo representative.

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(2 replies) #1 Dane on 30 Jul 2008 - 15:47
Thats pretty cool that they are either going give them a refund, or give the option to give the song DRM free. Seems like more and more places are going DRM free which is nice.

Last edited by Dane on 30 Jul 2008 - 16:00
#1.1 +TCLN Ryster on 30 Jul 2008 - 15:54
(Dane said @ #1)
...either give them a refund, or give them their money back...

Erm... lol.
#1.2 Dane on 30 Jul 2008 - 16:00
(TCLN Ryster said @ #1.1)
(Dane said @ #1)
...either give them a refund, or give them their money back...

Erm... lol.


Whoops, Fixed.
#2 VRam on 30 Jul 2008 - 16:14
nm
(2 replies) #3 thealexweb on 30 Jul 2008 - 16:26
Yahoo is actually leading the way on something.
#3.1 Majesticmerc on 30 Jul 2008 - 17:10
Lol, yeah. Yahoo! can really hand out those refunds
#3.2 ricknl on 30 Jul 2008 - 17:44
6 feet under ground?
(3 replies) #4 thealexweb on 30 Jul 2008 - 16:30
Could you burn them to a disk, then get your refund?
#4.1 Foub on 30 Jul 2008 - 16:57
If you can hear it you can record it. There are some utils out there that also strip DRM out as well.
#4.2 +TCLN Ryster on 30 Jul 2008 - 17:06
(thealexweb said @ #4)
Could you burn them to a disk, then get your refund?

That'd be illegal I'd guess, as you are giving up the right to listen to that track. But I would imagine anyone willing to do that probably wouldn't have purchased the track in the first place
#4.3 thealexweb on 30 Jul 2008 - 17:16
(TCLN Ryster said @ #4.2)
(thealexweb said @ #4)
Could you burn them to a disk, then get your refund?

That'd be illegal I'd guess, as you are giving up the right to listen to that track. But I would imagine anyone willing to do that probably wouldn't have purchased the track in the first place


Good point, oh well I don't have any Yahoo music tracks.
#5 thealexweb on 30 Jul 2008 - 17:03
Is Yahoo a major player in the music market?
#6 Little Charlie on 30 Jul 2008 - 18:23
I have purchased literally hundreds of DRM-free mp3s from Amazon over the past year or so. It shows that RIAA is on the wrong track. This recent move by Yahoo, and MSN will follow, serves to underscore the vision that Amazon had/has and the lack thereof by RIAA. In a related article here and post Amazon's "One Click" purchasing is a really easy and slick way to buy from Amazon. I "One Clicked" over 200 Madonna titles.. Easy and fun....I am a Material Boy! (ah er..Man! LOL!
(1 reply) #7 Kupo-Cheer on 31 Jul 2008 - 02:41
Once again, why not just release a tool to strip the DRM from the songs? Or offer song to song downloads (as in, you own this DRM-ed version of song A, so now you can download, for free, this DRM free version of song A)? Seems to me like they *want* to lose money.
#7.1 eAi on 31 Jul 2008 - 03:04
Like Apple do, with iTunes Plus.
(1 reply) #8 smithy_dll on 31 Jul 2008 - 06:21
Was I the only one who saw this as the silver bullet in securing the death of DRM when it was first introduced? This folks is why I didly I buy CDs, they'll still play long after RIAA members all go broke.
#8.1 eAi on 31 Jul 2008 - 10:14
Yes, of course you were the only one.

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