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Opinion Piece Predicts All Books Will One Day Be Read DigitallyThe author of this piece, Larry Magid, appears to have had a vastly better experience with existing eBook Readers than I have. That said, I think I agree with his main point - that better technology and less DRM will one day make digital libraries the norm.
Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy - Perspective: Hollywood is talking off the record about its real reason for wanting DRM?opportunities to sell you back your rights.For almost ten years now I have argued that digital rights management has little to do with piracy, but that is instead a carefully plotted ruse to undercut fair use and then create new revenue streams where there were previously none.
Q&A: Microsoft defends return to DRMMicrosoft yesterday unveiled its MSN Mobile Music service - and a surprise return to digital rights management (DRM).
iTunes To Offer DRM-Free Tracks ... At Variable PricesThe age of make your own album is upon us. APPLE will be offering its music DRM-free format all four major labels -- UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, SONY BMG, WARNER MUSIC GROUP and EMI -- as well as, for the first time, variable pricing on its tracks.
Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRMSpore, after more than 10 years of development time, is finally available for the PC and Mac. The game comes from the mind of the talented Will Wright, the man who gave us The Sims and the original SimCity titles.
Yesterday we featured a story on Cliff Harris, owner of Positech Games, and how he decided to deal with the issue of video game piracy. Cliff wanted to find out why people who illegally download games do what they do. So he asked them, point blank.
December 27, 2007 - The Financial Times is reporting that Apple, Inc. has struck a deal with 20th Century Fox studio to deliver feature film rentals via its iTunes Store. Details are expected at Macworld in January, during Steve Jobs' keynote speech.
MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videosAllan Wood (a baseball megafan who has written a book about Babe Ruth) purchased over $280 worth of digital downloads of baseball games from Major League Baseball, who have just turned off their DRM server, leaving him with no way to watch his videos.
Slashdot | BBC Quietly Announces Linux/Mac iPlayerThe good news is that the BBC has announced a Flash-based player for Linux and Mac due by the end of the year.
Thursday, August 9, 2007 Universal Music Group (UMG) announced that they will eschew Digital Rights Management (DRM) on "some" of their existing catalogue during a limited experiment. More info regarding the announcement can be found here.
Universal sells songs without DRMVivendi's Universal Music has said it is to test the digital sale of songs from artists without the customary copy-protection technology.
DRM Scorecard: Hackers Batting 1000, Industry ZeroForget the moral questions: Whether the millions of kids who load up their iPods from LimeWire are thieves, or whether there's something incongruous about Sheryl Crow, a millionaire many times over, railing against piracy.
Once upon a time ... e-book revolutionThere are now millions of books free online. So why hasn't the e-book revolution taken off? David Adams reports. Once upon a time, if you wanted a book you went to a bookshop or a library and bought or borrowed a paperback or a hardcover.
Technology News: File Sharing: Dumping DRM: Will iTunes' Rivals Follow Suit?"The perspective on DRM needs to shift dramatically away from controlling and locking and more toward an accounting mechanism," said Mike McGuire, vice president of media research for Gartner.
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes LawOtto von Bismarck quipped, "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." I've seen sausages made. I've seen laws made. Both processes are pleasant in comparison to the way anti-copying technology agreements are made.
Universal rebuffs long-term iTunes contract (after all)Hrm, looks like the dog has some teeth after all. Unfortunately, it seems to be biting its own foot.
Why DRM won't ever workEngineers know that DRM doesn't work, that it can't possibly work. Yet just like Scotty when Captain Kirk calls from the bridge asking for the impossible, they can't seem to help producing ever more complicated versions of the same broken system.
Vendor turns DRM against Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and RealA California-based DRM software company has sent cease and desist notices to Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks for not using its product.
Blu-ray's secret key: now showing at websites everywhereDISCLAIMER: THIS SEED DOES NOT HAVE THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC UNLOCK KEY FOR BLU-RAY. What's in a number? Quite a lot, it turns out, if it's a 16-digit hexadecimal (base 16) number that begins '09 F9'. (That's '9' followed by '249' in normal - base 10 - numbering.)
Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Storestarting in May EMI will offer DRM free version in the iTunes music store for 30 cents more, and you get higher quality. will other music labels follow?
Apple Stokes a Digital Music Standards WarApple's recent deal with EMI to sell DRM-free songs from the publisher's catalog on iTunes may clinch the iPod's AAC format as the industry standard
April 2nd, 2007 -- Music heavyweight EMI (along with Steve Jobs of Apple, Inc.) have announced a ground-breaking decision to strip DRM from all content in the EMI catalogue.
Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes StoreApple® today announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May.
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