[LINK] BigPond gives short notice for end of modifications of keys to DRMed WMA music

[Scott Howard]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Glen Turner <gdt at gdt.id.au> wrote:
>
> Here's why you should not buy your music with Digital Rights
> Management. Less than a month's notice to their longest
> customers that their investment in products from BigPond Music
> will be worthless when they next upgrade their computer.

Unless you're reading something I'm not, I suspect you missed the phrase
"... unless you do not back them up correctly first" from that statement.

>> As long as you keep using the same computer and
>> operating system, you shouldn't have any trouble
>> playing your WMA music files. But if you try to
>> move them onto a new computer or operating system,
>> they won't work *if you don't transfer their DRM*
>> *keys as well.*

  Scott