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, two critical projects for defending Internet freedoms. She discussed the ways that “takedown notices” and the Broadcast Flag proposal threaten the future of PCs and [...]
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 the first Day Against Digital Rights Management.
DRM is what is supposed to keep you from making illegal copies of CDs, DVDs and other forms of [...]
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 files of their anti-piracy coding.
The software Ruckus uses is Windows-based and is not compatible with old Apple technology that doesn’t run both the MAC OS [...]
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 on this opinion.
DRM encourages the use of BitTorrent to get your “money’s worth”. Why are consumers being punished and disabled from using the [...]
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 show downloads. But his company is embracing DRM as it opens a new movie download Web site that will compete with the Unbox store launched [...]
Microsoft Media Player shreds your rights
THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more. Get used to the feeling, if you buy DRM infected media, you [...]
Sources: Zune’s DRM not viral after all
Zune’s digital rights management (DRM) scheme will not add its own DRM to unprotected files, Ars Technica has learned. Trusted sources tell us that Zune’s wireless sharing feature, which requires Zune’s DRM to function, will only monitor the presence of shared songs for the purposes of controlling playback. Files themselves will not be modified, either [...]
Why censors are going overboard
A generation ago, a teenager in search of adult content needed to be resourceful. At the very least they’d have to rummage around under dad’s bed for the girlie mag stashed there. Now access to adult content is infinitely easier, thanks to that global pornography network politely known as the internet.
According to the Internet Filter [...]
Yahoo!, Jesse Mcartney Go DRM-Free
Sensing that perhaps consumers really hate it when they are sold a product that never really becomes theirs, Yahoo! has decided to see if removing usage restrictions will help to increase music download sales.
Hollywood Record’s senior VP of marketing, Ken Bunt, in a rare mea culpa noted the futility of fighting progress and [...]
Chuck D lays down the law on DRM
‘Just a lot of f’d – up shit’ says rapper on consumer experience of DRM.
Digital rights management (DRM) has its uses but should not be used to overly restrict users, according to musician and mobile entrepreneur Chuck D.
The rapper, who was a founding member of hip hop group Public Enemy and now runs a content [...]
