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From the good people at Deadspin:

MLB.com Says, "We Break It, You Buy It"

We remember being quite excited a couple years back when MLB.com started offering classic games for download. The notion of buying an old Cardinals World Series game that we could have forever, to watch whenever we'd like. Thanks, MLB! Of course, forever isn't exactly forever, not with the fine folks at MLB.com running the ship.

It turns out that MLB.com has changed their server suppliers -- or some tech thing we don't understand -- and if you bought any of those games, they no longer work. And they never will: They're now useless, and MLB isn't giving refunds.

The link within the quote takes you to a site called boingboing.

They have what you need to know about the whole no longer working thing...

Allan Wood (a baseball megafan who has written a book about Babe Ruth) purchased over $280 worth of digital downloads of baseball games from Major League Baseball, who have just turned off their DRM server, leaving him with no way to watch his videos. MLB's position is that since these videos were "one time sales," and that means that Wood and everyone else who gave money to MLB is out of luck -- they'll never be able to watch their videos again,.

MLB shut down the DRM server because they've changed suppliers, and now they expect suckers to buy downloads of games in the new DRM format. Anyone who does this needs their head examined -- using DRM itself is contemptible enough, but using DRM this way is just plain criminal.

I have not seen a response from MLB about this. If there is one, I'll post it