Walmart To Close Online Music Store 92
UnknowingFool writes "Beginning August 28, 2011 Walmart will close its online downloadable music store. After eight years, Walmart will no longer offer music for download but will still sell physical music formats. Walmart will keep their DRM servers online for customers that purchased their music with DRM. Despite having cheaper music, the store's market is tiny compared to No. 1 and 2, Apple and Amazon respectively."
"Walmart will keep its DRM servers online" (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:"Walmart will keep its DRM servers online" (Score:4, Insightful)
Who knows. But really they should be forced to unlock all the music from DRM.
Re:Wait, Wal-mart sells stuff online? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Wait, Wal-mart sells stuff online? (Score:2, Insightful)
If the community at large prefers to shop at Wal-Mart over the smaller stores, then by definition it IS providing more value to them.
Re:Wait, Wal-mart sells stuff online? (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, and I dont shop at Walmart either.
Re:"Walmart will keep its DRM servers online" (Score:4, Insightful)
http://xkcd.com/488/ [xkcd.com]
Didn't see it linked yet.
Yet Video Streaming Just Started (Score:5, Insightful)
So anyone who jumps aboard their video streaming service announced 2 weeks ago [slashdot.org] can get a glimpse of their future right now, eh?
Re:Wait, Wal-mart sells stuff online? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Wait, Wal-mart sells stuff online? (Score:2, Insightful)
No, that's not what he said. The point is that if I don't want to shop at your expensive mom and pop store, why should I have to? Because you say I must? Despite what most people will try to claim, a lot of mom and pop shops were crap. Just because something is a small, local store does not mean it's worth a damn.
Re:Wait, Wal-mart sells stuff online? (Score:4, Insightful)