Digital Rights Management

By Lopy What copyright holders call protection, consumers call restriction. Since consumers are the ones who ultimately pay for and use DRM-infected media, we’re going with the term DRM-restricted.Burger King Japan selling Windows 7 burgers

By Joe Wilcox Quick examples -- and more will come later in this post: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer: $6.59 from Amazon; $8.79 from B&N. Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?: $8.38 from Amazon; $11.20 from B&N. (Sony charges $9.89 for the first and $9 for the second.)

By Darren Murph Microsoft's Windows Phones just left the chute a few days ago, and already it seems that ye old DRM is getting talked about -- and not in a good way. According to one Chainfire over at XDA-Developers, the so-called "copy protection" involved in keeping applications in place rather than str...

By Tim Conneally But one of the most exciting things about this release is 7Digital's inclusion in open source media management software Songbird. For music consumers who may not want to be tied to the ubiquitous Apple iTunes for managing their music and media content, Mozilla XULRunner-based Songbird...

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 Michael Gartenberg There was a lot of discussion when Steve Jobs wrote his famous letter about DRM a few years ago. I think the letter and the timing were brilliant back in the day and it put the issue of DRM squarely where it belongs, with the content companies and not companies such as Apple or Microsoft. I agree w...

By Kirk To prevent this from happening Amazon needs to take control of Kindle DRM and establish a standardized policy. Apple rightly acted as a mediator between the demands of copyright holders and the needs of consumers — Amazon should do the same.

By schoen The DMCA has already been used to restrict the ability to produce innovative, useful products that copyright holders disapprove of. But at least the DMCA only applies to proprietary, encrypted media. The broadcast flag rule proposed to apply the same kinds of controls even to an open, une...

But that was almost 10 years ago, and now that the recording industry has come around to the idea of selling DRM-free tracks on iTunes, Amazon, ... and more »

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. ...

CNET News  UK - Amy-Mae Elliott Other new features in the software update include the ability to set alarms to wake to music, set timers to turn off music automatically, playback of DRM-protected Microsoft WMA files as well as full support for iTunes' DRM-free AAC music. ...

By rss@youtube.com (MeetTheMac) This is a method when you have protected music files on your itunes library and you want to make it DRM free or unprotect it. Unprotecting it gives you the access to put the music on an MP3, PSP, cell phone, or even use it in a youtube video(but that is against copyright laws). Hope this helps, PLE...

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 SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. closed its final appearance at the Macworld trade show Tuesday by cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and disclosing that soon every track will be available without copy protection. More on Apple

By Chris Meadows If you want a disc that can play in a DVD player and a PC you have to rip the movie then burn the DVD off the ripped file. And this shows how DRM only hurts the consumers because you still can pirate the DVD (which a lot have already done), but the real consumer can’t even use the real copy.

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 Games Update to Digital Rights Management (DRM) package:In recognition of your feedback regarding DRM and SecuROM, we have amended the FIFA 09 DRM package with Patch #2, such that a user can now ?de-authorize? a PC if they would like to ...

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By yarseeeed You can use it to move your library of M4P DRM protected music to the MP3 format that you can use on any player out there worth its salt. You can learn how to remove DRM from iTunes M4P music from following guide: ...

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This video shows you how to remove the Digital Rights Management(DRM) protection from iTunes music. www.howcast.com

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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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...

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 ...

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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.

By Jon However, not only does the service come complete with Microsoft DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control, it’s not free, as advertised by the BBC say protesters in a petition. No mention was made of Linux, or which kinds of DRM it’ll be using for these.

By Matthew Things have been quiet since then, until a new Doom9 forum poster called “Divine Tao” (an anagram of Viodentia) appeared with a post that claimed to have “a new tool for uncovering the individual keys from Microsoft’s DRM blackbox components (”IBX”) up to version 11.0.6000.6324.”

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.

The body that oversees the AACS DRM technology that imposes rigourous copy-protection measures on Blu-ray and HD DVD discs has released a security update that expires hacked encryption keys.

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 Germany and France challenge iTunes DRM Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman DRM company vows to hack iTunes DRM Sony rootkit ripped off anti-DRM code to break into iTunes

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....

This week the Apple Report podcast is back in classic form. A look at the Apple stock options probe, European regulation of DRM, and a Product Roundup of portable audio recorders

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 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...