Digital Rights Management

 - The success of Apple’s iTunes proved that the insistance on a DRM was counter-productive. Rather than assuring that people pay for each song, ...

 MA - Given that the treaty threatens to go way beyond "counterfeiting" to encompass ISP filtering, DRM rules, three-strikes laws, and less privacy for IP ...

 - M$ thrives on taking away your freedoms, DRM is like manna to them. Without copyright, all that DRM would be useless, and they wouldn't stand a chance ...

By chuqui Ditto iTunes and Fairplay. the DRM exists, but it stays pretty much out of the way. Users use their content without really noticing the DRM. It works. the problem that's gotten DRM such a bad reputation (and deserved) is that media ...

 MA - That law famously prohibited circumvention of DRM, and it contained no exceptions for libraries and archives that want to preserve digital material. ...

 - Jul 10, 2008 Apple's service still lags CinemaNow by not offering the ability to burn a DVD of your purchased, DRM-protected movie. But do you really want to watch an ... all 2 news articles

 NY - Jul 10, 2008 It seems that European publisher-distributor CD Projekt (The Witcher) have come up with a new site where you can buy DRM-free games from the '80s, ...

 MA - “We had been saying for years, even before the DMCA, that we were very concerned about overreaching DRM and all the problems it would bring,” says Cindy ...

By kevinlee2008 1) In iTunes, these DRM protected songs can’t be burned to mp3 CD disc, however, you can burn them to audio CD, and then use an audio ripper to rip the tracks from the CD. It may be a waste of CD discs when you have plenty of songs ...

 MA - PC games are still scattered with little organization, proliferating various intrusive and ineffective DRM solutions that fail at locking down software and ...

By Frederic Lardinois Real Networks' Rhapsody music service, which had only been a subscription service so far, is joining into the every expanding fray of music services selling DRM-free MP3 files. Real has signed deals with Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, ...

RealNetworks Could Be Real Challenger To iTunes - Infopackets

Rhapsody Gunning for iTunes with DRM-free Music - Audioholics

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 MA - Jun 30, 2008 That's an awful lot of self-congratulatory back-patting for being relatively late to the DRM-free music party, but it's still nice to see one of the major ...

 NY - Jun 30, 2008 RealNetworks' Music Without Limits initiative allows potential buyers to listen to complete songs for free, buy DRM-free music, and more. ...

By plester Following recent news from Amazon and Napster, music service Rhapsody will be the latest to start offering DRM-free downloads. These moves are undoubtedly an attempt to try and ruffle Apple's features as its iTunes store still reigns ...

 - Jun 30, 2008 iTunes uses DRM for a good portion of its music, but newer mp3 stores like Amazon's, which launched last September, have dropped it. ...

 NY - Jun 27, 2008 Many in the technology community argue that DRM restricts their fair-use rights and pits users against their own computers. TPM: A Matter Of Trust InformationWeek all 2 news articles

 CA - I think it's interesting that the (Trusted Computing Group) technology is continuing, but the big DRM push, so far, has not happened," Landau said. ...

By Hugh DAndrade Last April, Microsoft met with criticism when it announced that it would deactivate all music purchased from MSN Music. Customers rightly protested that the decision to pull the plug on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) servers that allow MSN Music customers to “reauthorize” music f...

By Cory Doctorow and "If my grandfather breaks the DRM on his jazz CDs to put them on his iPod, does that break the law?" and the biggie, "All the 'freedoms' your law guarantees us can be overriden by DRM, right?" (Prentice's answer to this last one, ...

 UK - Microsoft has backtracked on its decision to shut down its DRM servers in 2008, giving customers until 2011 to authorise new devices. ...

 MA - It furthermore served as a painful reminder of how drastically DRM ultimately limits your rights to use content you have lawfully acquired. ...

 NY - Jaaski conceded that things like DRM “go against the open-source philosophy” but Nokia has to cover its bases from a legal standpoint, I suppose. ... Nokia To Open Source Devs: 'We Need Closed' InformationWeek all 2 news articles

 CA - One of the most notorious iterations of copy-protection was the Sony Rootkit DRM which opened up people's computers to malicious attacks using cloaking ...

 MA - Another possible advantage Orange's plan may have is the reported lack of DRM or, what is more likely, a much more flexible DRM scheme. ...

 New Zealand - DRM is struggling, but we still see stupidity everywhere. Apple doesn't let you copy stuff off your iPod - you have to use third-party software to perform ...

 Australia - DRM is struggling, but we still see stupidity everywhere. Apple doesn't let you copy stuff off your iPod - you have to use third-party software to perform ... Transparency needed on ACTA Toronto Star all 2 news articles

 MA - The customer can then either pay to have the songs burned to CD or downloaded as DRM-free MP3s to an iPod or other USB-compatible player for $.99 per track. ...

 - See DRM, the multiple court cases over DeCSS, the whole DMCA and its restrictions over discussion of security, the massive abuse of the patent system ...

By Mat Lu Napster has announced that it is now offering DRM-free MP3 downloads that play on the iPod family and the iPhone. Furthermore, the library is 6 million songs which puts it in the same league as the iTunes Store, and indeed far eclipses ...

Rhapsody Tries to Drown Out iTunes - TechNewsWorld

More DRM-Free Music, This Time From Napster - MediaPost Publications

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Apple's DRM system in iTunes and iPod, FairPlay, has worked too well meeting the the demands of the studios, according to The Guardian. With the enormous popularity of the iPod, that DRM has worked against music players without FairPlay, and now rivals to iTunes are realizing that the sol...

By Cory Doctorow Fred sez, "Nice article explaining how the end of analog TV in the US in Feb. 2009 is going to unleash DRM troubles on a lot of unsuspecting consumers." This is great for the studios, but it's not how the audience thinks (or should ...

By matt buchanan As CNET points out, when Sony BMG became the last major label to sell DRM-free tracks, we pretty much declared DRM deader than HD DVD or Tony Stark if he got in a fight with Batman (at least for the music industry; movies are another story). But RIAA tech chief David Hughes told a panel yesterda...

By John Gruber With video, of course, we’re all screwed, in that every legal source for mainstream content attempts to lock you in. DVDs, unlike CDs, can’t legally be ripped to digital files for your own personal use. (If iTunes could just rip movies from DVDs like it rips songs from CDs, Apple would be sell...

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) In music related DRM there have been several small changes and one really big change. The companies that make up the music industry oligopoly have finally started selling digital music without DRM. Yahoo was the first to try special DRM-free music purchases, but these were limited to a han...

By Matthew Back in August 2006, we saw the release of a utility for cracking the DRM on music tracks meant to play in Windows Media Player. The utility was called FairUse4WM and was released by someone called “Viodentia” via the Doom9 forum. Read more at ZDNet UK.

Oh, IT’S ON. After months of eager anticipation, it looks like either Viodentia has finally come out of hiding, or s/he’s passed the torch on to another (Doom9 forum user Divine Tao?) — but either way it looks like MS DRM IBX components up to version 11.0.6000

By Jimmy Daniels This knowledge base article from Apple will walk you through recreating your iTunes library, and this one, iTunes: How to backup and restore playlists, will show you how to backup and restore your playlists. Apple DRM iPod iTunes Apple, DRM, iPod, iTunes It’s great that Apple is starting...

By Erica Sadun Interoperability. No DRM means that your music will play back on many more platforms, like the Zune. Of course if your media player doesn't support AAC, you're kind of out of luck unless you want to convert your music or buy a better player (which the lack of DRM makes possible). Interoperabil...

By Cory Doctorow Apple drops Trusted Computing EMI abandons CD DRM Why Apple is to blame for iTunes DRM Apple sued for iTunes/iPod monopoly tying Apple and Sony sued for non-interoperable DRM Germany and France challenge iTunes DRM Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman DRM company vows to hack iTunes DRM

By info EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restriction...

By Scott McNulty Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, iTunesWe all know that Cory Doctorow, of BoingBoing fame, hates DRM with the red hot passion of a thousand suns. Most people aren't fans of DRM, but view it as a necessary evil in a world where it is very easy for one person to copy and distribute your 'prod...

By ITSpec That's just an example. It gets worse - read Timothy Lee's paper. The gov't has irresponsibly put too much power into the DMCA, and wrote it in such a way that leaves it wide open to leverage and abuse beyond copyright protection. As long as the system stays the same, and Microsoft's sales don't...

By ITSpec Steve Jobs recently requested that the music industry content owners relax their DRM requirements. They didn't budge an inch, but instead made the recommendation that Steve share his intellectual property (iTunes proprietary DRM "FairPlay"). So much for putting pressure on the Conte...

Steve Jobs this week came out in opposition to Digital Rights Management (DRM) software -- including Apple's own FairPlay system -- and proposed that the major record labels and device manufacturers like Apple simply give up the practice, allowing music to be distributed unprotected....

By karsten In regards to this qoute, I think it just means that if say Hollowood or Sony Pictures demands that DRM content restrictions are used when playing a HD-DVD or a Blue-Ray Disc´, then they are used. license fees to Microsoft for getting their content DRM-ed. To me, this doesn't bode well for the...

By WaltConnery A: In every significant case that I can think of, everybody *except* Microsoft. Q: Was DRM Microsoft's idea? Q: So why did Microsoft implement DRM in the first place? Q: Why doesn't Microsoft "stand up" to the RIAA/MPAA and just say "Hell, no, we won't go!"...?

By Ryan Block In simple terms (ok, not that simple), muslix64 does not claim to have cracked the AACS DRM itself, but instead to expose and use each disc's hard-coded private key in order to make the hardware device run through its routine decryption process. By doing so, BackupHDDVD effectively bypas...

By Stephen Speicher So today we'll try something different. Today I'm going to ask you some questions. Do you have different rules for content vs. tangibiles? If so, why do you consider entertainment to be different from say, groceries? What are your personal rules about personal use of copyrighted -- often DR...

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) The truly criminal part of this whole pile of publishing hoohah is that I am certain that a portion of these books are classics that have no copyright and thus can be legally printed and sold by anyone who has a mind to do so. To have made it onto the publisher's test list, the titles had to be popu...

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) Most consumer complaints about digital rights management revolve around the limited interoperability of proprietary systems. Those concerns are still legitimate and remain unanswered by current DRM technology. But there exists another concern beyond the simple lateral limitatio...