Yahoo!music music match Yahoo! Music rips-off thousands of music match juke box customers Sunnyvale, California

But thanks for offering them

To be able to burn them You must first have the license... Bummer but true

I have also tried a number of the DRM removal tools but all require the tune to have the license to strip the protection, basically all play the tune within the program and re-record it ... so no license no play. If soneone has a workable solution that does not require the license I am all ears and can put this down in the mean time 


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Case ID: 572
Date: 2011-12-17
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Case Title: Yahoo ripped off hundreds of Musicmatch customers 
Detail:
I purchased many songs from music match juke box, To play the music on any player including the MMJB. it required Authorization thru there servers. Since that time MMJB was purchased by Yahoo who turned off those servers So I can no longer play the music I legally purchased. Though I still have copies of the music, it is locked by the DRM protection, the WMA player still queries musicmatch then the DNS is directed to Yahoo to acquire the license by there are no servers! Hence no music! 
Summary:
Yahoo! purchased Music matchJB for $160 million cash, not to long later, Yahoo! decided to stop supporting the MMJB users and took the license Authorization servers off line ,leaving Thousands of users who legally purchased music, unable to listen to their purchased music. How is this legal???? I wish to compel Yahoo! to bring these servers back on line and properly service the Authorization requests 

" I suggest  you are a Yahoo employee, attempting to white wash Your Lame excuse, "

This is what most people on this site say whenever someone posts something that they don't want to hear.  For the record, I am not employed by Yahoo.   You merely asked "How is this legal?" and I told you.

What you experienced is common with anyone who was suckered into "buying" DRM protected music.   The issue was common with customers who bought music from Microsoft, Walmart, iTunes, AOL, Napster, etc...   All of those companies eventually realized the futility (and expense) of supporting licensing keys for every file they ever sold, in perpetuity.    I was only pointing out that Yahoo was one of the most accomodating companies when it came to the issue of replacing music.

There are not many options left after 3 years.    If you have the files stored on a working computer you should be able to burn the tunes to CD audio files.   Alternatively, there are programs out there that can remove DRM from files.   I can't personally vouch for any of them, but Googling "DRM removal" should give you more options. 

  Good luck.

I suggest  you are a Yahoo employee, attempting to white wash Your Lame excuse, for an employer. Nice to know you have nothing better to do and all day to do it. Wish I had a job like that, no I dont I enjoy my work including the travel   I was never notified of the Server shutdown .  I was NEVER offered any refunds or re downloads. At no time during the purchase or subsequent receipt was it mentioned you were only leasing the music. It was always presented to leave the impression I was buying it, similar to purchasing  a CD I did make Back-ups to a NAS device but this allows the DRM to stay intact.

Yahoo knew full well, the purchase of Musicmatch would require support for the previously purchased  selections I have still been RIPPED-OFF and until my monies or music is returned I will find every venue to expose this fraud and the people behind it.  All I can say for sure about Yahoo Is that I am out at least $151.00 because they are too cheap to stand up to the ethical business obligations they acquired with the acquisition of Musicmatch business

Working!!!!!In dungheaps all over the world Supporting our countrys interests When the music was sold It was presented that it would be mine There was no mention of DRM or of the ramifacations. I did not recieve any notices or offers of Vouchers. Apperantly you enjoy the luxery of being with your family at home on your free time. I however spend 85% of my time on the road, on military bases at god knows where,  for months at a time. At no time did the MMJB site sugest that you were only leasing the music. It was always presented that it was mine to keep and play any time for years this was a good arrangement. between trips I would load my Sansa for the next "vacation" another 12 week trip to austier Djbouti Africa or some other dump in Sand land with only my company laptop for company.    My music is usually my only bastion of a normal existance when I travel.... Now I have 151 unplayable tunes taking up space on my HDD... Yess my music is very important to me

" How is this legal??  "

   Yahoo is not the first company to do this.   Basically, it's a problem anytime you "buy" media that includes DRM protection.   It's not a good idea if you expect to use the media for the long term.  

  When you "buy" music, you're not really buying it, but you're actually buying a limited license to use the media.    With a DRM protected file, you are relying on the seller to keep an active online record of your purchase forever.   That's just not realistically possible.    Companies come and go, policies change, etc...    The problem is that when you purchased those files, Music Match didn't give you any guarantee that they'd keep thos DRM servers online forever.  

  That said, Yahoo announced the shut down of its DRM servers over 3 years ago.   At the time, they offered customers the opportunity to re-download unrestricted copies of their music.  They also offered refunds if redownloading were not acceptable.  Where were you when that happened?

  Given what they offered, Yahoo went far beyond what other "DRM deadbeat" companies did when they dropped DRM.    Hard to call it a ripoff.