Travis Roy 9.01 | 0:27

Somewhat buried under the grim news of Yahoo!'s stock drop Wednesday was an interesting move by Yahoo! Music.

They're selling a digital version of the song "A Public Affair" for $1.99 that can be personalized using a quite a lot of different names (although none that begin with 'Q,' so sorry, Q*Bert). Ok, let's admit that this is kind of like a Jessica Simpson-ized take on those name-specific kids' birthday party tapes, for double the price of your basic iTunes song.

Which might not be everyone's cup of tea. But that's not the cool part. The cool part is Yahoo!

's stand against DRM copy protection, which cripples the usability of many commercial song files; Yahoo!'s versions of "A Public Affair" (yes, even the ones that sing to 'Gabby') will be DRM free. Here's a snip from the Yahoo!

Music blog: "As you know, we’ve been publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for a while now.

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