Screenreaders of those handicapped people can’t “read” pictures of lyrics.
That’s discrimination I would say!
Sue those bastards for claiming to provide lyrics while they just provide useless pictures without usefull “alt tag” textdescription for vision handicapped or blind people that need to use screenreaders to “see” webpages!

That’s because there is no text at all. Just some grafic file in .png format in a table that gets created from here * with individualised values behind index.php?

Me wonders if a picture of shades of black dots on a violet(?) background in a specific pattern that is consistent with what we humans call latin letters, created in the open standard grafic format PNG is a) copyrighted and b) if that is the DRM their lyrics TOS refers too?
Who holds the copyrights (if any) for those pictures? The text lyricists or the (digital) paining artist that created these pictures?

* http://p1.music.vip.sp1.yahoo.com/music/lyricist/index.php?loc=us&l=numericalVALUE&s=numericalVALUE&sp=numericalVALUE&t=VALUE&k=alphanumericalVALUE&x=numericalVALUE

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/music/music/lyrics/lyrics_tos.html

(I guess the way the lyrics are presented is what they refer to their DRM system) *big grin*

Of course, not being able to save lyrics once you’ve found them is the real catch. I think the other lyrics sites are safe for now. You can save the image (it’s a PNG) but it’s hard work… and that’s the way it should be really.

Oh, and you can’t copy-and-paste the lyrics from Yahoo’s site, either. You can’t even right-click the area showing the lyrics. On the other hand, anything showing up on your browser is on your computer and can eventually be accessed and manipulated, right? Wonder if it’s even worth the bother of anybody to figure out how to crack this.

Anyway, legal action against lyrics sites is going to fall pretty flat. How are they going to deal with sites located out of the US or in countries who don’t care? They won’t be able to. Good thing the rest of the world is obsessed with American music, eh?

The only good thing about Yahoo’s site, I guess, is that most lyrics sites out there are buggy little bastards that try to open all sorts of crap on you. Then again, one might say Yahoo is just that but in a more respectable way.