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March 17th, 2010 Uncategorized none Comments

By now you should know this — as DRM’d music service after DRM’d music service has screwed over their customers by shutting off the servers on the music they were supposed to be able to access — but it’s yet another reminder that if you buy into DRM’d products, you’re going to end up screwed over. The latest, sent in by a bunch of you, is that Australian ISP, Bigpond (from Telstra), is shutting off its DRM servers that were used to support Windows Media Audio. Once again, the DRM did nothing to stop file sharing, but is making life difficult and annoying for legitimate customers.

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