Wal-Mart Switches to MP3-Format Only
As Wal-Mart switches to the MP3 music format and redesigns its music store, it leaves behind Microsoft's digital rights management technology, which prevented the songs it sold from being played on iPods. The company has also ditched Sony/BMG and Warner Music Group, for now anyway, probably due to licensing squabbles about the terms of the transition to unprotected music.
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Most likely, this is a temporary situation that will be resolved by additional mingling by bean counters at both companies, but one wonders whether Wal-Mart and its customers would have been better served by waiting until all of its ducks were in a row and then announcing a comprehensive DRM-free store on the level of Amazon MP3.
True, it would make more sense if Wal-Mart had not just all the labels signed, but Mac and Linux support as well. Oh, and don't even think about using a non-IE browser on their new site. That's just one more problem.
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This is all evolve as deals are made, designers figure stuff out, big-wigs getting rights from record labels. After all, the number one retailer in the world probably has a cent or maybe even two to invest, yes? Downloading music is the way of the future (actually its probably the current trend more than buying discs in the store) -- Wal*Mart (as much as I dislike them) will certainly adjust to the times |
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hope they fix the ie only thing. =/ i know a lot of people who wont got through the hassle of if, they have to jump to ie just to use it. |
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hey guys, i use IE Tab in firefox, if you know its a IE only site switch rendering engins before opening and it opens site in FF. and there is IE View, it opens IE itself |
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