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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Good DRM purchasing citizens also file-sharing pirates
Some not entirely surprising results from the latest piece of digital music research by Jupiter: people with iPods don't fill them up entirely from the iTunes Music Store:
The Jupiter Research ...
DVD chips ‘to kill illegal copying’
DVDs will soon be tracked with embedded radio transmitter chips to prevent copying and piracy, according to the company which makes movie discs for Warner, Disney, Fox and other major ...
DRM cracks continue to thwart iTunes 7
Apple's announcement of the newly revamped iTunes 7 during yesterday's "Showtime" event came with many new updates and features to both the software and the iTunes Store. One of those ...
US urges European regulators to lay off Apple DRM
A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official has joined the debate surrounding Apple’s proprietary digital music technology by criticizing European antitrust activities, but groups attacking Apple are defending their actions.
Speaking ...
Sony’s ill-fated CD copy protection still causing problems (disables CD-ROM drives)
The much-maligned copy protection program that Sony BMG Music Entertainment put on CDs last year is still posing a threat to computer users running certain versions of AOL or PestPatrol ...
October 3rd Declared “Day Against DRM”
Defeating DRM is all about awareness. The direct actions that we have taken are all about this. Whether it means protesting outside Apple Stores in Hazmat suits or getting HUGE ...
FairUse4WM strips Windows Media DRM!
So far as the yet very quiet forums are claiming, a new app called FairUse4WM can be used to strip Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 (i.e. PlaysForSure, but not ...
DRM Crackers Make Yahoo And Napster’s Music Services All The More Useful
There are many reasons locking files down with copy protection or DRM is short-sighted and pointless, but one of the biggest is that it simply doesn't work. Time and time ...
DRM Wars: The Next Generation
Last week at the Usenix Security Symposium, I gave an invited talk, with the same title as this post. The gist of the talk was that the debate about DRM ...
Sony Exec: “More Rights for You…New System of DRM”
During, Siggraph, a computer graphics industry conference taking place this week in Boston, MA, Sony excutives were repeatedly questioned about DRM (digital rights management).
Opening up the panel ...
The Snarf-It DIY Tool (Copyright Holders Only)
A couple of days ago we received this email from Microsoft asking us to remove about 200 torrents from the site that were "offending" their ideas of copyright. This ...
Siggraph: Taking on fair use, privacy and DRM
"More choice for you" is the argument a Sony executive repeatedly made when questioned about digital rights management during an open-mic panel at Siggraph, a computer graphics industry conference held ...
French Council: Individuals Can’t Bypass DRM
The French Constitutional Council has raised concerns and removed some key measures from the long awaited copyright bill, which was adopted by France’s two houses of Parliament June 30.
The Council, ...
Rights locks ‘must be simplified’
An industry-wide standard on the copy controls for digital entertainment is needed to aid consumers, the trade body for 7,000 US music stores has said.
If a compatible system cannot be ...
Yahoo sells Jessica Simpson single sans DRM
Yahoo announced Wednesday that it is selling Jessica Simpson's latest single in MP3 format--in other words, with none of the usual copyright protection coding.
Because the song, a party-pop track called ...
