More signs of the end times for DRM:

Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it's becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn't the best way to monetize the music business online. What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though? When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past customers dependent on their music "phoning home" to get license approval before playing are out of luck. They'll be able to continue playing purchased tracks on a single computer, until they make any changes to their operating system.

This would be a huge clue to the RIAA and the MPAA, if they weren't completely immune to clues. It would also be an opportunity for the labels to work with Yahoo and get some cheap positive PR, by allowing all users of the Yahoo music store who were interested to download un-DRM'd copies of the music they bought. But again, that would require them to find two clues and rub them together...

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