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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Wal-Mart opens DRM-free music store

Wal-Mart has started selling $0.94 DRM-free downloads, including tracks by the Rolling Stones ~~(long-time iTunes Music Store holdouts)~~. It's a marked contrast from Wal-Mart's downloadable video store, which sucks so hard it practically implodes (not to mention the old Wal-Mart music store, which had industry-leading crummy terms of service).

Wal-Mart's online music store started selling songs free of copy-protection technology Tuesday for 94 cents per tune.
The songs from the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Maroon 5, among others, will play on most portable media devices, including Apple Inc.'s iPod.

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Update: Hilarious -- Wal-Mart can't even do suck-free non-DRM downloads! ADM sez, "If you visit the new music store using Linux or Mac OS X, you get this error: 'We're sorry, your operating system is incompatible. To provide the best download experience, we can no longer support Windows 98, ME or NT. Please visit again after you upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP. Visit our Help section for complete system requirements information.' You can't even browse the store to see if what they have is worth the effort of borrowing some time in Windows."

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