Wal-Mart becomes the latest to shut down DRM servers

Wal-Mart becomes the latest to shut down DRM servers

Wal-Mart has now become the latest digital music retailer to announce their plans to shut down their DRM servers.

This means that any customer who bought DRM loaded music from the service would require to burn the songs on an Audio CD to prevent getting locked out.

Once the servers are taken down, the music would not be re-authorized again. And the user would lose the rights to play the music if he reinstalls the operating system.

This problem would not be faced by customers who have been purchasing the DRM free music from the service.

Wal-Mart introduced DRM free music earlier this year.

The company said in an emailed message to customers:

If you have purchased protected WMA music files from our site prior to Feb 2008, we strongly recommend that you back up your songs by burning them to a recordable audio CD. By backing up your songs, you will be able to access them from any personal computer. This change does not impact songs or albums purchased after Feb 2008, as those are DRM-free.

They would take down the servers on October 9 this year.