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Yahoo Music Is Shutting Its Doors

There had to be a better way. It's no surprise that Yahoo! Music is shutting down its download store and pointing customers to Rhapsody.  But did they have to pull a Microsoft and stop supporting the retrieval of license keys or authorize playback on additional computers? Here's the email that came last night:

Yahoo Acquires FoxyTunes

YAHOO! MUSIC SHIFTS GEARS

Yahoo Music Sings New Song

Do you ever have trouble remembering lyrics to songs? Yahoo Music plans to change that with their agreement with digital media company Gracenote. Yahoo Music will now offer lyrics of 400,000 songs licensed from Gracenote to their users.

Goldberg and Roback Leave Yahoo Music

Yahoo Music head David Goldberg is exiting the struggling division along with Music GM Robert Roback. Goldberg has been one of the industry's first and most vocal voices for dropping DRM in downloads. Yahoomusic_3

2007: The Year that DRM Died

This year promises to mark even more innovations in the realms of marketing, search, and digital music technology. The greatest feat of 2007 may not come in terms of an addition, but rather the removal of Digital Rights Management (DRM) practices from online music stores such as iTunes and the Zune marketplace.