Yahoo screws customers with their DRM
Yahoo has decided to close their music store, and they are disconnecting the license servers as well in September. This article gives a good description of the problem.
Here you have people that have purchased music legally from the online store, and now, when they switch computers in the future, or shortly based on a crash or an upgrade, they will not be able to listen to their music anymore.
Why is DRM allowed? Here a customer who purchased the music is the one losing out. Not the record labels, the recording company, or even Yahoo. Why would you not download music to ensure you are DRM free? The customer just got screwed again by big business.
This is why I refuse to use software or anything else with DRM. If I have to link to something outside my computer to use the software or other digital item I purchased, I refuse to purchase it. This should not be tolerated in our society. They could sell new music up to the actual closing date, then take the license server offline, and someone may not even be able to listen to the song they just bought.
The new Canadian Copyright Bill (B-61) will even make it illegal to work around this DRM, which is actually not doing anything wrong, except trying to listen to the music that was purchased legally.
I hate DRM.