Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"
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Wednesday July 30, 2008 at 07:00 PM |
DRM is a fickle creature. On the one hand, it prevents music from being illegally shared. On the other hand, it often screws the people who pay for it. Thus was is the case developing over at Yahoo, who have shut down their DRM'd music service. However, those who paid to legally download songs are now finding themselves in a pickle, unable to transfer the songs they legally purchased to different programs. Have no fear (maybe), Yahoo claims it will reimburse customers in some way. From Wired...
When Yahoo announced that it would follow Sony Connect and MSN Music into dissolution by terminating its DRM-ed music store ,
customers of the store and media analysts were understandably irate.
But we can all take some comfort in Yahoo's vague offer to reimburse
those who were unfortunate enough to have paid for PlaysForSure DRM-ed downloads from the Yahoo Music service, although details remain scarce.
"You'll be compensated for whatever you paid for the music," Yahoo spokeswoman Carrie Davis told InformationWeek . "We haven't said exactly what we will do, but we will take care of our customers."
Songs purchased from Yahoo Music will continue to play on computers after the service goes offline on September 30th, but cannot be licensed to new computers or devices after that, meaning that they'll eventually become unplayable.
So there you have it. If you were once a customer of Yahoo's music service, you may be in store for some sweet, sweet cash. Or a lame voucher or something. Keep an eye out.
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Thursday July 31, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Just uploaded a bunch of songs to my page, they are all instrumentals, if anyone is any good at lyrics / vocals I would love to hear from you.
George
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