F**K the RIAA and everything it stands for!

And all the lawyers that put us here.

Haha there are people who still pay for music? I foresaw crap like this years ago. Why would I pay for music that might not be mine later? Burn everything to CD's! :)

M$ wanted to buy this company for what reason again?

I've oftened wondered what would happen in cases such as this........ big business doesn't care and see's it as an opportunity.

end users see no reason to buy legitimately.

DRM free really is the only way to go if you want to buy legitimately..... I fear for this situation if a host of companies start copying Valve's steam service and forget to sell hard copy's of the games in question..... at least to me a serious concern in regards to games is the concept of Steam unless they allow me to backup the game once purchased online...... and I mean a complete damn version not half a game with the rest requiring to be downloaded.

Why can't they just release a program to strip the DRM from the files?
Or allow them to download the Rhapsody DRM'd files free?

wow, i didn't think DRM could get worse...

Forget burning to CDs, use Total Recorder Professional Edition to convert them to the format of your choice. This is only really practical if you don’t have thousands of songs as it’s a real-time process. It does keep the Tag data though which saves a lot of time. You can create a playlist in WMP and let the conversion process take place over night. With 2 months to go if you convert for 12 hours per day you have time to convert over 700 albums; that should be enough for most. 

http://www.totalrecorder.com/productfr_trPRO.htm

As much as I like the EFF, McSherry is too much like MsCherry.

As for people that buy DRM'd media... um, how can you not foresee this kind of thing?

Possession is 9/10ths of the law. Who, I wonder, does Ms. McSherry imagine will be knocking on doors with warrants granting search privileges so that each and every file on each and every burned CD a person has can be compared with his purchase receipts? I cannot imagine this happening to anyone, frankly. The invasive conditions Ms. McSherry imagines really don't exist.

Further, it seems to me that if Yahoo! is instructing people to burn their DRM files to CD that it is Yahoo! who is granting its customers express permission to do this, so any copyright owners who "do not agree with this" are best served by talking to Yahoo. Seems to me that by granting its express permission, Yahoo! has forever removed the onus from these Yahoo! customers.

I thought it was already known that if you buy music online containing DRM via Yahoo, Itunes or whatever, that you could simply burn it to a CD and rip it back to the PC. I don't buy much music but I have bought a few songs online for my kids through itunes and thats the way I've always done it when I want to put in on their mp3 players that aren't Ipods.

so if yahoo sent a e-mail to burn your music that you bought from them to cd's then do it they are the one thats taking the heat not the consumers. After all they got you into this mess then they should get you out

Funny that a DRMed music service has the word "Unlimited" in it's product name.

I surely cannot be the first to note that.

"Haw Haw"

Nelson Muntz

Gee, I wonder if anyone ever considered that DRM might not be a good idea, because it's logistically unworkable. Naw... that's crazy!

DRM free tracks should definitely be the way to go if anyone shuts down, and people wonder why piracy is so big.