Digital Rights Management

By Kevin Purdy We've shown you how you can turn your (non-DRM-protected) music collection into custom iPhone ringtones using GarageBand and iTunes on a Mac, or software like ToneShop for Windows, but the CyberNet tech site's made it easy for those ...

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 Netherlands - claim that their software is legal since their software does not actually circumvent copy protection or DRM, since the raw audio stream remains unprotected.

 MA - The labels have largely prevented Apple from offering DRM-free music via iTunes, apparently because they are concerned with Cupertino's dominance of the ...

By fred Two of the leading on-demand streaming music sites, iMeem and LaLa, are not using DRM on their audio streams, instead sending the music as MP3s dusted with a dash of obfuscation. This is significant because both sites have been licensed by all the major record labels -- the very same record...

Apple itself has offered DRM-free recordings via its iTunes Plus format since mid-2007, and equalised the price of higher-quality MP3s and music in its ... BigPond challenges iTunes with MP3 downloads! iTWire Courier Mail - PC World Magazine

 UK - When Apple first announced the App Store they intimated that the use of signed and DRM’d apps would allow Apple to protect the iPhone from malicious apps ...

By Cory Doctorow A US appellate division court has thrown out a DMCA claim against the Air Force (a former soldier wrote some software on his own time for the USAF, added in a time-bomb that made it stop working, and quit and sold the software's ...

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By Cory Doctorow The DMCA itself contains no express waiver of sovereign immunity," the judge wrote, "Indeed, the substantive prohibitions of the DMCA refer to individual persons, not the Government." Thus, because sovereign immunity is not explicitly ...

By Jack Loftus The brand spankin' new FlowBerry theme is full of icons for the BlackBerry owner who really wants to own an Apple product, like the iPhone or MacBook Pro, but can't quite commit. As you'll see from the video, there's a pseudo Cover Flow quality to the latest effort from bplay, but that's abou...

 MA - Svensson also describes how certain DRM mechanisms, without communication, might give certain games the reputation of being buggy. ...

By Hugh DAndrade Small wonder that so many online music retailers continue to move away from DRM and towards more user-friendly formats like MP3s. But this problem will continue to dog the companies that sold DRM music to customers in the past. Online music retailers like Yahoo, MSN Music, and Apple's iTun...

 UK - It appears that according to Engadget, Apple’s FairPlay DRM has not only already been cracked for music and movies but has now been cracked with games as ...

By matt buchanan Here's why this is so obnoxious: They're not just screwing over actual people—you know, a mom or some college kid who really just wants to get their computer fixed—but Apple isn't going to drop DRM in response to this lame stunt. If you really feel that the "iPhone 3G restricts your freedom,...

 MA - DRM reared its ugly head a couple of times this past week. Yahoo Music was never a terribly popular service, and the online giant has decided to shut its ...

 UK - With blackberry media Sync, Blackberry owners can now grab their desktop iTunes and shove them on their BlackBerry handset, although DRM’d tracks are ...

By Corynne McSherry Just over a month after consumer backlash caused MSN Music to rescind its decision to deactivate the digital rights management ("DRM") servers that allowed MSN Music purchasers to "reauthorize" music files after upgrading operating systems or buying new computers, Yahoo! Music has...

By chuqui Ditto iTunes and Fairplay. the DRM exists, but it stays pretty much out of the way. Users use their content without really noticing the DRM. It works. the problem that's gotten DRM such a bad reputation (and deserved) is that media ...

By kevinlee2008 1) In iTunes, these DRM protected songs can’t be burned to mp3 CD disc, however, you can burn them to audio CD, and then use an audio ripper to rip the tracks from the CD. It may be a waste of CD discs when you have plenty of songs ...

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By Hugh DAndrade Last April, Microsoft met with criticism when it announced that it would deactivate all music purchased from MSN Music. Customers rightly protested that the decision to pull the plug on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) servers that allow MSN Music customers to “reauthorize” music f...

By John Gruber With video, of course, we’re all screwed, in that every legal source for mainstream content attempts to lock you in. DVDs, unlike CDs, can’t legally be ripped to digital files for your own personal use. (If iTunes could just rip movies from DVDs like it rips songs from CDs, Apple would be sell...

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) In music related DRM there have been several small changes and one really big change. The companies that make up the music industry oligopoly have finally started selling digital music without DRM. Yahoo was the first to try special DRM-free music purchases, but these were limited to a han...

By sumeethevans@bink.nu I’m no fan of DRM (I buy DVDs and audio books from Audible.com but beyond that I try to limit my exposure to DRM thanks to being bitten in the butt by it a few times in the past), but I also recognize that it offers content providers both with new revenues streams and improved ways to enforce copy...

By Jon “Despite the fact that the new iPlayer service has been funded by these Television Licence Fees, the BBC have chosen to exclude 100s of thousands of TV Licence holders from using the iPlayer service by restricting it to the Microsoft Windows XP platform using Windows Media Player’s DRM s...

By Jon Apple doesn’t have, “the required government licenses to manufacture and distribute content over the Internet, nor does Apple protect their content from serial copying,” says the company. “MRT will not condone copyright infringement nor risk infringement liability for our custome...

By Matthew Back in August 2006, we saw the release of a utility for cracking the DRM on music tracks meant to play in Windows Media Player. The utility was called FairUse4WM and was released by someone called “Viodentia” via the Doom9 forum. Read more at ZDNet UK.

FairUse4WM v1.3 Fix 2 promises Vista, Zune DRM stripping - Engadget - Microsoft Zune Players

Oh, IT’S ON. After months of eager anticipation, it looks like either Viodentia has finally come out of hiding, or s/he’s passed the torch on to another (Doom9 forum user Divine Tao?) — but either way it looks like MS DRM IBX components up to version 11.0.6000

FairUse4WM is back with Microsoft IBX crack - Geek.com

By Jon p2pnet - Sony BMG rootkit DRM deal, December 29, 2005 Associated Press - Sony BMG sues CD software firm, July 12, 2007 Hollywood Reporter - Microsoft Plans to Cut Xbox Price to Compete With Wii, July 9, 2007 a “slight” issue - Sony BMG tries to minimise scandal, December 10, 2005

By Richard Driver With EMI Group PLC (LSE: EMI)'s announcement Friday that its new Digital Rights Management technology-free tracks now available for sale on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s iTunes Store are performing well, will the compact disc finally go to the grave, as has been speculated for the past fe...

By Jimmy Daniels This knowledge base article from Apple will walk you through recreating your iTunes library, and this one, iTunes: How to backup and restore playlists, will show you how to backup and restore your playlists. Apple DRM iPod iTunes Apple, DRM, iPod, iTunes It’s great that Apple is starting...

By info It’s not clear yet how much information Apple is embedding in its “DRM-free” tracks or what it does with this information. It is clear, though, that there is information in Apple’s music downloads that could be used by the RIAA or others to track what you do with your music. Buzz about Appl...

By info In an unanimous decision, the Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of “effective technological measures”. The le...

By Richard Driver Filed under: Consumer experience, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)Thinking about the amount of coverage I give to Digital Rights Management (DRM) in my blogs, I can only wonder if all of the news and announcements regarding the technology has any real effect on the consumers or the st...

By Richard Driver Filed under: Deals, Good news, Products and services, Launches, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)As I reported here on Bloggingstocks nearly a month ago, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) confirmed rumors and announced yesterday that the company will open a new music downloading serv...

By Tom Sullivan Notes from the field: The excitable Robert X. Cringely explains that "everybody gets something out of the Apple EMI deal." Indeed, the pact under which EMI drops DRM via iTunes. That's everybody as in the record company and Apple. "Don't be fooled," Cringe writes in DRM a little DRM of me. "This...

By Erica Sadun Interoperability. No DRM means that your music will play back on many more platforms, like the Zune. Of course if your media player doesn't support AAC, you're kind of out of luck unless you want to convert your music or buy a better player (which the lack of DRM makes possible). Interoperabil...

By Cory Doctorow Apple drops Trusted Computing EMI abandons CD DRM Why Apple is to blame for iTunes DRM Apple sued for iTunes/iPod monopoly tying Apple and Sony sued for non-interoperable DRM Germany and France challenge iTunes DRM Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman DRM company vows to hack iTunes DRM

By MichaelMiller Starting in May, Apple says the complete digital catalog from EMI music is going to be available on iTunes in 256 kbps AAC encoding without DRM for $1.29 per song.   You’ll still be able to get the music in the existing format - 128 kbps AAC encoding with Apple’s Fairplay DRM – at the current pri...

By info EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restriction...

Opinion: An Open Letter to Microsoft - Why you shouldn't kill FairUse4WM - Engadget

By info 1) Drop DRM on iTunes for independent artists 2) Drop DRM on iTunes for Disney movies and video 3) Take a public stand against DRM and legislation mandating DRM by funding a campaign to repeal the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) prohibitions.

By Scott McNulty Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, iTunesWe all know that Cory Doctorow, of BoingBoing fame, hates DRM with the red hot passion of a thousand suns. Most people aren't fans of DRM, but view it as a necessary evil in a world where it is very easy for one person to copy and distribute your 'prod...

By ITSpec That's just an example. It gets worse - read Timothy Lee's paper. The gov't has irresponsibly put too much power into the DMCA, and wrote it in such a way that leaves it wide open to leverage and abuse beyond copyright protection. As long as the system stays the same, and Microsoft's sales don't...

By ITSpec Steve Jobs recently requested that the music industry content owners relax their DRM requirements. They didn't budge an inch, but instead made the recommendation that Steve share his intellectual property (iTunes proprietary DRM "FairPlay"). So much for putting pressure on the Conte...

Steve Jobs this week came out in opposition to Digital Rights Management (DRM) software -- including Apple's own FairPlay system -- and proposed that the major record labels and device manufacturers like Apple simply give up the practice, allowing music to be distributed unprotected....

By karsten In regards to this qoute, I think it just means that if say Hollowood or Sony Pictures demands that DRM content restrictions are used when playing a HD-DVD or a Blue-Ray Disc´, then they are used. license fees to Microsoft for getting their content DRM-ed. To me, this doesn't bode well for the...

By WaltConnery A: In every significant case that I can think of, everybody *except* Microsoft. Q: Was DRM Microsoft's idea? Q: So why did Microsoft implement DRM in the first place? Q: Why doesn't Microsoft "stand up" to the RIAA/MPAA and just say "Hell, no, we won't go!"...?

As most of you probably have figured out by now, I'm not a fan of Digital Rights Management (DRM). In the past two weeks alone, I have theorized about the negative impact that DRM will have on Apple in the long-term, and documented the disdain of the blogosphere (not to mention Microsoft Chai...

By Ghoop So I believe that the music industry is driving customers away, rather than protecting their copyright. If they made the music easy to get, and priced reasonably (say 50 cents) then they would maintain their revenues by increased volume of sales. If it was easy and "cheap" why would you both...

By Stephen Speicher So today we'll try something different. Today I'm going to ask you some questions. Do you have different rules for content vs. tangibiles? If so, why do you consider entertainment to be different from say, groceries? What are your personal rules about personal use of copyrighted -- often DR...

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) The truly criminal part of this whole pile of publishing hoohah is that I am certain that a portion of these books are classics that have no copyright and thus can be legally printed and sold by anyone who has a mind to do so. To have made it onto the publisher's test list, the titles had to be popu...

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) Most consumer complaints about digital rights management revolve around the limited interoperability of proprietary systems. Those concerns are still legitimate and remain unanswered by current DRM technology. But there exists another concern beyond the simple lateral limitatio...