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Originally Posted by heliod
2. They explain that at the moment you have recorded the files to a CD, you are free to listen it everywhere.
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Helio, my friend, I have to disagree. Burning files to a CD then re-ripping them results in an audio file that is inferior to the one that was burned in the first place. It's also a waste of a CD. What Wal-Mart should have done was offer people their music in DRM-free MP3 format - because they're shutting down their DRM server, they know all that music out there is going to stop working eventually, so by offering it in MP3 format they'd be giving customers what they thought they were buying in the first place: music that they can listen to for the rest of their lives (assuming they don't lose the files), just like what you get when you purchase a CD. But Wal-Mart didn't do that, they instead decided to screw their customers. So very typical. I can't blame anyone for seeking out DRM-free versions of their tracks on P2P networks - Wal-Mart isn't giving people a reasonable option.