US retailer WalMart has backtracked and said it will continue to operate its DRM servers. The US supermarket giant recently said it would no longer support music files that were bought from its download store before it went DRM-free earlier this year. That would mean tracks bought from WalMart as Windows Media files with digital rights management embedded would stop working. Owners of those tracks would have to rip them to CD to ensure they still had copies. But a message from the supermarket yesterday read: "Based on feedback from our customers, we have decided to maintain our digital rights management (DRM) servers for the present time". As previously reported, owners of DRMed music bought from the original MSN download service in the US were less lucky when Microsoft decided to stop supporting its own DRM.
Oct 10, 2008
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Walmart backtracks on DRM turn off
WalMart says it will keep its DRM servers running after customer feedback, reversing an earlier plan that would have stopped older protected tracks working.