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 has just sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real, and Apple.
“Together these four companies are responsible for 98 percent of the media players in the [...]
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 fewer CDs were sold in 2006 than the previous year, while sales of downloaded digital songs increased by almost 60 percent.
The iPod/iTunes combination accounts for [...]
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, Apple sent out a brief memo to its content partners that starting next month they will be able to offer DRM-free music and music videos.
The memo [...]
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:
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