Following the misguided lead of both Microsoft and Yahoo, it appears that Wal-Mart has decided to turn off its DRM servers, basically screwing over anyone who trusted Wal-Mart to make sure that music bought from Wal-Mart would keep working. What’s amazing is that Wal-Mart would do this after seeing the backlash that made both Microsoft and Yahoo eventually back down (with Yahoo even going so far as to offer refunds). Wal-Mart, on the other hand, just told people they have a week to burn their music to a CD and re-rip it — or they lose it entirely. Obviously, by this point, you should know that buying DRM’d music is a mistake, because you’re leaving the music in a situation where the company you bought it from can “turn it off” at some point, but what’s more amazing is that Wal-Mart would make the exact same mistake after seeing what happened to both Yahoo and Microsoft.
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