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    • Wal-Mart shuts down video downloads after a year in service

    By Ryan Block | December 27, 2007

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    Sounds like the video download game isn’t as easy as the biggies make it out to be. Wal-Mart, whose download store has been open all of a year and a couple of weeks is already shutting down, apparently abandoning the effort after its tech partner HP discontinued whatever technology it was running the thing. Bonus for (former) Wal-Mart Video Downloads though: according to the FAQ, all downloaded videos are users’ to keep, and no one’s bound to keep the Wal-Mart Video Download Manager on their machine anymore. Of course, it’s still DRMed to hell, so short of stripping the copy protection, you’ll only be able to play “your” purchased videos with the machine on which you bought it — and nothing else.

    [Via Reuters]

     

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