European Commission Wants Consumer Friendly Market for Content
With a lot of attention being paid to the European Commission settling the Apple iTunes anti-trust case, it's interesting to note what the European Commission has called for ...
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Amazon’s new music download store will offer only DRM-free music
Every song and album in Amazon's digital music store will be available exclusively in the DRM-free MP3 format.
Once again EMI leads the way in making its music library ...
Company targets Apple, Microsoft and others for not using enough DRM
What do Vista, Flash, RealPlayer, and iTunes have in common? According to Media Rights Technologies (MRT), all of them are infringing products under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and MRT ...
Will DRM-free music threaten iTunes?
Need proof that Apple's iPod and iTunes Store has forever changed how people, particularly mobile people, acquire music? Here it is: The recording industry recently reported that nearly 13 percent ...
Apple tells content partners it can soon offer DRM-free music
According to the MacRumors site, iTunes' content partners will soon have the option of offering DRM-free music and music videos.
Perhaps in another bid to assuage European anti-trust concerns, ...
MPAA: ‘We want consumers to have content whenever and wherever they want’
MPAA calls DRM an "enabling tool," and that consumers who come by their content legally should be able to enjoy it "on any device," anywhere, anytime.
In a keynote address to ...
Does the BitTorrent Entertainment Network’s DRM only encourage piracy?
With the increasingly beleaguered prospects for the viability of the BitTorrent Entertainment Network, it seems worth pondering why it needs DRM and playback restriction in the first place, and ...
Australian Government Calls BS On Bogus Copyright Industry ‘Losses’
We've spent years complaining about the completely bogus stats put out by the likes of the BSA, the RIAA and MPAA about just how much "piracy" is costing them. These ...
Digital Freedom Campaign Begins, Claims Right to Download Movies, Music
Technology companies took aim at the film and recording industries yesterday for their efforts to restrict how consumers use movie and music downloads.
The Digital Freedom Campaign plans to teach lawmakers, ...
“iPod Jon” cracks iPod and iTunes
DVD Jon, the Norwegian who as a teen hacked the encryption on DVDs has done it again. This time he has slayed Apple's Fairplay encryption that prevents iPod users from ...
DRM In Question
DRM is certainly being thought about in several different areas of the music industry and sales. Businesses are rethinking their approach to securing music from the hands of pirates. ...
Vista To Prevent Copying .ISO Files to Hard Drives on Home Version
Important Windows Vista Licensing Changes, and Ed Bott tells us about changes to the Windows Vista EULA. But that's not the whole story. Starting on Page 11, here is a ...
More Anti-DRM Activity Bubbles, Protest Group Emerges In France
After a string of anti-DRM protests by activist organization Defective by Design, another group has staged a similar action in France. A forty-member group known as StopDRM recently paraded through ...
Getting Zuned
Every week at MP3tunes we hear from people who have lost all or a portion of their iTunes music (it's often motivation to get 'music insurance' and open a $40 ...
Rhapsody’s New Version 4 Aims to End DRM Problems
Rhapsody this morning is releasing version 4 of the software used with its internet music streaming service, software based on a Digital Rights Management system the company built itself.
In announcing ...
Audio of activist lawyer talk on Broadcast Flag and Chilling Effects
The audio of Wendy Seltzer's talk at my USC lecture series is now online. Wendy, an activist lawyer, is the co-founder of Chilling Effects and the Digital Television Liberation Front, ...
Defective by Design hits the streets to protest corporate anti-piracy tactics
Well, it does mark the release of "X-Men 3: The Last Stand" on DVD. But other than that--something that affects people's lives even more than "X-Men."
Give up? Well today marks ...
Students abuse Ruckus: Users strips anti-piracy code with third-party software
Within a month of its launch at Ball State University, 6,421 students went online to download music from the Ruckus server. However, some students are abusing the system by stripping ...
BitTorrent Is Encouraged
The word on the tech-street is that the co-founder of BitTorrent, Ashwin Navin, believes that DRM is not the answer to legal online video services. I completely agree with him ...
BitTorrent Founder Navin Talks DRM
Ashwin Navin, co-founder and president of file-sharing software developer BitTorrent, thinks that advertising-supported content will win out over digital rights management (DRM) in the long run for movie and TV ...
