Wal-Mart’s DRM Drama Continues

Wired.com has an interesting little summary of the state of Wal-Mart’s troubles concerning their digital music store, which is shifting back to utilizing DRM technology on their music, as well as activating the servers that supported their previously-sold DRM-enforced as well as DRM-free music.

“DRM” is an acronym for Digital Rights Management, a generic term that applies to access control technologies that prevent digital duplication off of sources like MP3s and CDs. A controversial copyright protection technology, the legality of DRM technologies as well as their impediments to traditional music copying such as backing up to computers and CDs have long been hot topics among music industry representatives and consumerist advocates and fans.

You can find the article here.