"Yota Music" covers the shop: you can no longer download tracks

From February 1, Yota puts its Music service online. Now, tracks from the Yota music library (about 700,000 songs today) can only be listened to if you are connected to the Web from a browser, using PC applications and the WiMAX communicator HTC MAX 4G. Previously, online access to music was provided to any user registered in the system, and Yota WiMAX network subscribers (Yota Mini and Yota Max tariffs) could download music without restriction and listen to it offline on 3 any devices - the music was protected by Windows Media DRM. All Yota users who have paid a monthly fee for their tariffs in January will be able to download music for exactly one month from the moment of downloading the first track from the catalog.

On the Yota website, the news appeared on January 19, on the same day it was published on the company's official twitter and in the official community in LJ . And a press release about this came only on Saturday - therefore, the news practically did not shine in the tapes of thematic publications. There are no official Yota comments - in connection with which, in fact, the shop was covered?
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On the one hand, it was not very desirable: online music can still be listened to for free, both to subscribers of the network, and to any beetle and toad, who were not too lazy to register with the service. On the other hand, for active users of Yota WiMAX, the possibility of unlimited downloads of legal content was a non-acidic such bonus included in the monthly fee.

In addition, the very fact of stopping an important part of the first truly ecosystem Russian service is also frustrating.