Los Angeles - Major League Baseball (MLB) has switched vendors for the digital rights management (DRM) software protecting its downloadable games from piracy, rendering games downloaded before 2006 unwatchable, while also declining to provide refunds for the purchases, Ars Technica reported.

The report cited the blog of Red Sox fan Allan Wood (Joy of Sox), who was told by a MLB customer service representative that his over $280 in "one-time" purchases of downloadable games at $3.95 each were ineligible for refunds.

Major League Baseball has not yet commented on the matter.

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