Shame on Me? For Buying Music Legally? Thanks Yahoo

I spent nearly a half hour googling George Bush's infamous take on the "fool me once" proverb only to find that, well, he eventually got it right. The same goes for those benevolent few that, after considering the equivocation of digital downloading with grand larceny or maybe even homicide (it's hard to tell, there were just too many shaky criminal references in that commercial to make sense of them), decided to go the safer route with Digital Rights Management (DRM) music offered by MSN, Yahoo and a slew of others.

Following the lead taken by MSN earlier this year, Yahoo will no longer host a music store, and, upping the ante, it will also take its DRM servers offline at the end of September. That's right, you, who legally paid to own this music, will not be able to access your music starting October 1^st.



And, to salt the wound, Yahoo is suggesting these DRM owners burn all data onto their own blank discs, and re-copy them onto their hard drive. Never mind the cost of blank CDRs, or the loss of sound quality caused by the compression, according to Yahoo, you should be so lucky to have this opportunity to obtain the music that you legally paid for and, by all accounts, own.

I know that those horribly inflammatory commercials had a message, but the real theft and piracy doesn't seem to be as one-sided as it is made out to be.

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