Digital Rights Management

By holmesworcester Today, Apple launched a computer that will never belong to its owner. Apple will use Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to gain total veto power over the applications you use and the media you can view. Apple will be getting a ton of press for the launch today, press coverage that will lik...

By tim Masnick writes that the mainstream entertainment industry's formula for contending with the Internet — desperately trying to invent "new copyright laws or new licensing schemes or new DRM or new lawsuits or new ways to shut down file sharing" — is counterproductive.

By JohnSullivan We got through to Steve Jobs before on music DRM, and convinced iTunes to drop it. We know we can have success here. But we need to repeat that effort and show that DRM on Apple computers means that people who are actually interested in creativity and freedom will go elsewhere.

By holmesworcester 2009 was the year that music DRM died. But when Apple's iTunes store went DRM-free on music, we celebrated the victory without buying the hype: Apple still uses DRM on virtually everything else they sell (movies, TV shows, games, audiobooks, applications, and of course hardware).

Seriously. by toosday December 8, 2009 3:42 PM PST I agree that WInAmp is outdated, however I think iTunes does still have DRM in its music: Ifyou ... and more »

He also has a no-nonsense view of DRM. "The reason why we don't put copy protection on our games isn't because we're nice guys. We do it because the people ...

Geeky gadgets Part from that, one can also read non-DRM or Adobe DRM EPUB files, non-DRM PDB and PDF files. The unsupported formats are Microsoft Word DOC files or plain ... Barnes & Noble nook reviewSlashGear

By holmesworcester We don't want to encourage you to get an Amazon account if you don't already have one, as there are serious privacy concerns about how Amazon collects data from users, but if you do have an account, then here is a chance for you to use it for the benefit of others. Log in now, start searching and s...

By Scott M. Fulton, III Recent marketing literature for McAfee DLP (PDF available here) refers to its patented technology: "Prevent data loss and leakage without interrupting legitimate business activities, even when data is modified, copied, pasted, compressed, or encrypted."

By sarahmac Sony Shredder Still Has DRM One recent piece of news was on Sony's decision to switch the DRM format they use on their eBook reader: "Sony to dump proprietary DRM in eBooks". Many observers saw this as a bigger deal than it actually is: Sony has not removed DRM from their eBooks, and the DRM the...

Escapist Magazine  CA Most importantly, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition 1.5 is completely DRM-free! Playing The Witcher will be even more fun without any form of annoying copy protection. Moreover, the 1.5 version of The Witcher will remove the disc check, allowing you to ...

By corynne Let's be clear: we are not saying that Apple has to carry apps it doesn't like in its App Store. But iPhone owners who don't want Apple playing the role of language police for their software should have the freedom to go elsewhere. This is precisely why EFF has asked the Copyright Office to gran...

In particular, Apple objected to content that gave instructions on how to hack away at built-in DRM code in the iPhone and iPod to allow the devices to interact with unauthorized (ie, anything but Apple's iTunes) music services. ...

By Wilson Rothman You're snickering. Not about the baseball bat (I hope), but about the whole spending-money-on-iTunes thing. Yep, I am a recovered iTunes DRM-music-buying addict. I still pay for music, but now Amazon is the legitimate source of all my thankfully DRM-free impulse buys.

By IT News Podcast In today's podcast: Apple to offer more DRM-free songs; former Borland CEO joins VMware; and AMD gets US government approval for Foundry spinoff. read more

By The Huffington Post News Editors While iTunes is the most popular digital music store, others have been faster to offer songs without copy protection. Amazon.com Inc. started selling DRM-free music in 2007 and swayed all the major labels to sign on in less than a year. More on Apple

By Chris Meadows What most people are doing is ripping the movie (not copying to an ISO but actually ripping the movie cracking the DRM this is illegal in the USA) to the hard disk (allowing you to watch the movie on your PC off the HDD) which shows that their DRM isn’t even working. Even if you make an exact copy o...

By charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) Macworld--the last Macworld with Apple as a participant--got under way in San Francisco on Tuesday, with Apple unveiling plans to expand DRM-free tunes. CNET News' Greg Sandoval, who broke that story Monday, also talks about Apple's plans to roll...

By matt buchanan • PlayReady is another Microsoft DRM flavor, aimed mostly at portable devices, but it also powers the DRM in Microsoft's Silverlight, which is what just brought Netflix streaming to Macs. • Not software DRM per se, but Windows Vista has a ton of DRM technologies baked right into it.

The latest patch for EA LA's alternate history RTS packs a number of bug fixes and tweaks, along with the ability to de-authorize past installations to get around its DRM. Major v1.05 higlights: DRM De-authorization - if you've maxed out at 5 machines, you can easily de-authorize any insta...

itunesm4ptomp3.wordpress.com ― This passage shows how to transfer WMAs (include DRM protected) from Windows to Mac and how to switch iTunes 8 on Windows to iTunes 8 on Mac with freeware. Avatar Sucring ― posted 2 hours ...

By dudude This little tutorial shows how to convert iTunes protected AAC (M4P) music to unprotected MP3 files so that you can play DRM protected iTunes music with your Nintendo Wii music player. » original news.

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This little tutorial shows how to convert iTunes protected AAC (M4P) music to unprotected MP3 files so that you can play DRM protected iTunes music with your Nintendo Wii music player.

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By Jon Now, observes TorrentFreak, Free Culture (Kindle Edition) by Lessig is available through Amazon — but only under DRM. Something along the lines of the Amazon incident, perhaps? Nope. Lessig definitely gives DRM hearty pat on the back.

By treesing The music downloaded from iTunes is under DRM protection. In order to play it on your PSP, you need to strip the DRM off and have the iTunes M4P M4A converted to PSP MP3 format. You can burn the protected M4P music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make an audio CD and then use some CD ripper software to...

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Wanna remove the nasty DRM from iTunes 8 music? Wanna convert iTunes 8 protected AAC or M4P to MP3? Take a look at this tutorial for the solution. 1 Vote(s)

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 CA - The spokesperson compared Spore's security to that of Apple's iTunes service, in that both allow a limited number of installs. The difference is that iTunes ... EA To Relax 'Spore' DRM In Upcoming Patch G4 TV all 2 news articles

By Spiral Here's how to make music you bought via iTunes play on any media player. Like the other hack on this page, this DRM-stripping trick could get you into legal hot water, but it also gives you control over songs that you rightfully own. ...

By GolaYing And the detailed guide about how to convert DRM media: Part two: Free remove iTunes DRM music on Mac However, in order to remove DRM protection, you will need iMovie - iMovie is a separate application, the current iteration of iMovie ...

Just a few days after the iPhone DRM may have been cracked, Apple has released iTunes 7.7.1. The update, according to Apple, includes fixes to improve stability and performance, but the company did not provide any other details. The 48MB update is available via Mac OS X Software Update and via...

Microsoft is trying to show its kinder, gentler side to developers, Toshiba bailed on its HD DVD format, and Apple introduced Xsan 2 while dropping the Xserve RAID from its product lineup. Also, Apple dropped iPod shuffle pricing and doubleTwist launched its media sharing and DRM-strip...

By Seth Schoen Finally, there's a classic suite of arguments against DRM that will be as true for online video as they were for music. DRM doesn't move additional product. DRM is grief for honest end-users. And there's no reason to imagine that new DRM systems will stop copyright infringement any more effe...

Apple was hit with an antitrust lawsuit for its iPod and music sales tactics, Mac market share took a jump in December, and the iPhone and iPod touch had trouble telling time on New Year's eve. In the entertainment world, Sony finally saw the value in DRM-free music, Warner dealt a hard blow t...

By adam frucci Other price discrepancies include Air's Pocket Symphony ($8.99 on Amazon, $9.22 on Wal-Mart), Broken Social Scene's self-titled album ($7.99 on amazon, $9.44 on Wal-Mart), and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane ($8.97 on Amazon, $9.22 on Wal-Mart). More often than not, the prices are better on A...

By Charles When most people think of buying music online, they think of iTunes. But most iTunes music is still encumbered with DRM, which makes it clumsy to use with Kinoma Player. (Read this to learn how to use all of your iTunes purchases with ...

By glenn@tidbits.com (Glenn Fleishman) Steve Jobs confirmed to the Wall Street Journal what Ars Technica reported earlier: iTunes Plus songs sold via the iTunes Store are now 99 cents, down from a typical $1.29. iTunes Plus songs are sold without digital rights management (DRM), which encrypts content for playback on specific...

By Danny Mendez An added benefit of downloading your music via Amazon as opposed to iTunes is the lack of DRM. Most of iTunes' music comes encoded with DRM, preventing you from using YOUR music on anything other than an iPod or the computer to which the music is registered.

Previously, on the hack channel** Remember kiddos about FairUse4WM and QTFairUse? They are DRM hacks for Windows Media and iTunes that I posted about last year. It’s the cat and mouse game here. FairUse writers post their hack on the forums. iTunes and Windows Media post a patch to their soft...

By Matthew That post was followed by replies from numerous other Doom9 forum posters confirming that the tool did indeed work with both Windows Vista and the Zune software. The main problem this creates is for the Zune Marketplace music store and Microsoft has yet to comment on the new tool.

Along with a new version of iTunes released today Apple has launched iTunes Plus, a premium service that offers music tracks free of copy protection, keeping its promise to offer EMI Group's digital catalog in May, inclu...

Despite the software update, the Apple iTunes Store itself does not show any DRM-Free music currently available for purchase. The DRM-Free launch will likely occur later this morning (Wed, May 30th). From the iTunes Help, it appears you will be able to upgrade your existing songs to the iT...

By Michael By the time you read this, you will probably be able to download DRM Free tracks from iTunes.  Apple, late last night, sent out the 7.2 update of iTunes that includes iTunes Plus, the much talked about higher encoded, DRM free audio tracks from EMI.

By Cory Doctorow Why Apple is to blame for iTunes DRM Apple sued for iTunes/iPod monopoly tying Apple and Sony sued for non-interoperable DRM Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman DRM company vows to hack iTunes DRM Details on cracking Apple's iTunes DRM Sony rootkit ripped off anti-DRM code to break into iTunes

By info Apple’s iTunes Store is the first online music store to receive EMI’s new premium downloads. Apple has announced that iTunes will make individual AAC format tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads, with their DRM removed, at a price of $1.29/€1.2...

By Scott McNulty That solves the iTunes Store lock in problem, because if you are really that passionate about moving from iTunes you'll figure this trick out. So we now know you can rid all of your iTunes audio purchases of DRM with a little time and effort but what about Cory's assertion that 'once you put mu...

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 Ryan Block The critical importance of the subpoena power to Microsoft's case against Viodentia explains the otherwise-mysterious question of why Microsoft has filed a suit for copyright infringement rather than for circumvention of DRM. The subpoena power is a little-noticed feature that the...

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By Peter Rojas We know that you're already probably working to fix the, um, hole that's been discovered in Windows DRM 10/11, but we're going to ask you this anyway: please don't stop consumers from using FairUse4WM to remove copy protection from music they've downloaded.

Sony BMG's fiasco with copy-protection software reveals enormous pitfalls in content owners' plans to prevent piracy through digital-rights management (DRM). But DRM is essential to making the content available, and there are ways to do it right. To make the revolution in digital medi...