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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
and the companies you mention taking down their servers potentially rendering your legally purchased DRM tracks useless isn't limited to small time upstarts or shady companies that might go out of business any day. WalMart recently took down their DRM servers.
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Customers of the Yahoo Music Store lost access to the music they had purchased when Yahoo shut down their licensing servers on Sept. 30.
MSN Music has announced they are shutting down their servers (although due to outcry, the date was extended to 2011).
Google Video Store shut down their service at the end of 2007. They offered refunds to buyers, but the media was all locked.
Major League Baseball sold footage, but then took down their servers and the video could no longer be watched (no refunds from MLB).