All MP3 digital tracks only 94 cents, with music content from major record labels such as EMI Music and Universal – available now at Walmart.com ( www.walmart.com) “As we consistently strive to help ...

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 ...

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 stores announced last week that it will begin testing digital music downloads on its Web site, www.walmart.com, selling songs for 88 cents each. This decision will place the retailer in ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. began selling music downloads that lack copyright-protection software at a price lower than that offered by Apple Inc.’s iTunes online store. Downloads are available from record ...

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[Editor's Note: Just after we posted this story, Wal-Mart sent out an email to customers indicating they would not be pulling the plug on their DRM servers after all. Click here for a Gizmodo report.] ...

Wal-Mart will soon shut down the servers controlling reauthorization of purchased DRM (digital rights management)-protected WMA music files, Ryan Halford, the company’s computer buyer, indicated on a ...

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 Stores Inc. said it would begin testing digital music downloads on its Web site, potentially sparking a price war in the online music field. Wal-Mart, which has grown into the world’s biggest ...

Brisbane, Calif. — Wal-Mart officially added music without digital rights management (DRM) software to its download service, joining a growing movement to provide digital “unprotected” music that can ...