After e-mailers and commentators explained to Wal-Mart how much harm shutting down its DRM authentication servers would cause its customers, the company backpedaled, and will keep its DRM servers running -- for now anyway.

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The music industry is struggling to gain a foot-hold in the battle with online piracy. The options available for music lovers to grow their music collection digitally is tremendous and free.

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So, what's your beef, Stace? "It alleges that Apple has constricted the market by not enabling iPods to play content in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, Microsoft's copy-protection technology."

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Tension mounted this summer over iTunes fixed prices and Job's push for DRM-free music. Now Universal and EMI are developing DRM-free competition through Amazon, Google, and Wal-Mart.

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Some 130 distinguished doctors in Britain Saturday called for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) and its expulsion from the World Medical Association (WMA).

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pple'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

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Though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Machead, I have to side with Microsoft on this one.

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Amidst the aggressive and pugnacious consumer discussions over DRM, today Microsoft introduced yet another: PlayReady. Aimed at the mobile space, PlayReady DRM takes their "open" (i.e.

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Mp3, wma formats are copyrighted formats. Not everybody knows that they are breaking a bunch of rules and copyright patents by playing and redistributing fileformats like mp3 and wma.

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P2P networks might rob the recording companies of profit, but DRM is literally destroying music collections. This month Gary Marshall reveals how you could soon find your record collection vanishing before your eyes.

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Microsoft technology that protects digital files from copyright infringement has been breached, according to reports.

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Verizon's new LG Chocolate cell phone with advanced music capabilities ships this week and it's a sweetie.

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Is Steve Jobs Sabotaging DRM with iPod + iTunes?

This idea was mentioned briefly during a panel discussion at CMJ's Music Marathon 2005.

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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) claims that Digital Rights Management (DRM) is actually good for consumers.

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