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 Variety Magazine’s Digital Rights Management Conference yesterday in Los Angeles, MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman laid out some interesting details of his organization’s efforts [...]
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 also who and how they impact it’s ultimate long-term success.
BitTorrent Inc opened up it’s new BitTorrent Entertainment Network video download store to much hype 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 stats usually make a few really bad assumptions, such as the idea that every unauthorized copy is a lost sale. They also fail to take [...]
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, policy-makers and consumers the value of new digital technologies.
“The Digital Freedom Campaign is a way for all of us who are trying to preserve [consumer] [...]
“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 playing music downloaded from places other than Apple’s iTunes.
Monique Farantzos, managing director at DoubleTwist, the company that plans to license the code to [...]
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. Just recently, Reuters reported that the current theory is that if the music industry wants to work to loosen the grip Apple has on [...]
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 synopsis of what I believe are the most far-reaching changes, as I have interpreted them:
* Home Basic
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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 the Latin Quarter of Paris, using banners and leaflets the confess to a crime. The offense? StopDRM pled guilty to playing iTunes-purchased tracks on a [...]
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 locker with unlimited storage). While we’re happy to have a new customer, it’s sad when someone loses their personal possessions. Their loss is often tied [...]
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 the refresh, company officials acknowledged what users of the service already knew: the previous DRM, based on what Microsoft mendaciously calls Plays for Sure, just [...]
