Whoops! Stung by DRM haters, Yahoo offers refunds or MP3 in wake of music service shutdown announcement

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By David Rothman

Yahoo angered Yahoo Music consumers by deciding to shut down a DRM server.

This would have prevented them from moving the songs to other machines, in the wake of the closing of YM.

Luckily Yahoo has wised up, and people will get refunds or DRMless music.

Yes—the inevitable question. A lesson for publishers? Books are a medium of permanence. Don’t muck up the works with DRM.

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