Wal-Mart has decided to keep the music that it sold wrapped in a layer of copyright protection playable, following a flurry of customer complaints about legally purchased music becoming unplayable.

The battle for the digital music arena has lost one of its earliest players, as Walmart announced Tuesday that after almost eight years in the business, the Walmart.com Music Downloads store will shut ...

So, Walmart is to pull the plug on its DRM servers and leave all the suckers customers who bought DRM-encumbered music up a creek without a paddle. Here's the email sent out to customers: Important ...

Wal-Mart has downsized its decision to shutter its DRM key servers after transitioning to a DRM-free music store. Wal-Mart Music customers began receiving e-mails today from the company saying that ...

Walmart.com's music download store went DRM free in February of 2008; and now the retail giant is telling customers that they'll no longer support the DRM laden downloads that they sold them prior to ...

Wal-Mart has joined the likes of Amazon.com and iTunes today - it is offering MP3 downloads, free of DRM. Much as it's hard to applaud anything Wal-Mart does, it is a major step when the world's ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it is now selling digital music downloads on its Web site without the customary copy-protection technology that limits where consumers can play ...