Digital Rights Management

The CIA and Pentagon have access to your bank account and mail. Senators wish to pass a bill that would require DRM on podcasts. The Anshe Chung DMCA complaint. Virtual Reality in the business... The CIA and Pentagon have access to your bank account and mail. Senators wish to pass a bill that would r...

By Micki In his recent Information Week column, internet superhero Cory Doctorow bashes Apple’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology and its protection under the DMCA because it’s bad for consumers, artists and the music industry. ...

By jennifer And TI's DMCA claim fails for another reason, as well: running software of your choice on your calculator has no "nexus" with copyright infringement. The courts have made it clear (1, 2) that you need a nexus with infringement if you want your DMCA claim to stick. This is not about decrypting...

By Nilay Patel Man, these Copyright Office triennial DMCA hearings seem to be some kind of competition for media-industry lawyer to present ridiculous arguments -- just a couple months after the MPAA tried to convince us that videotaping DVDs was an acceptable alternative to ripping, the RIAA's cla...

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...

 CA So just as the movie studios argue that you're not allowed to break DRM in order to exercise your fair use rights – one of the biggest problems with the DMCA scheme – they are also sure to argue that you can't break DRM in order to exercise these ...

 CA If anyone else were to employ these same methods against the RIAA and MPAA, they'd be in a world of DMCA hurt. by CodeyH June 3, 2009 2:06 PM PDT In a day and age where major players are dropping DRM, what's the point? by ddhboy June 3, ...

In this one, Hitler is the studio head, upset at all the Downfall parodies, and he wants to do DMCA takedowns on them all. (If you're a DMCA/DRM fighting Slashdotter, you'll like it.) The EFF, which I chair, blogged it on Deeplinks, and hilarity ensued ...

Board Chairman Brad Templeton recently remixed his own version, with Hitler ranting about troubles with DRM and the failure of DMCA takedowns to prevent fair uses. Take a look, and then keep reading to see what Brad's experience making it tells us ...

Thanks to the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA, an action that is clearly fair use (backing up a movie) becomes illegal not because of the backup, but because of the circumvention of the DRM. That should go against all common sense: if the action ...

Ars Technica I don't even think you could stop them under the DMCA without adding some DRM (and DRM is bad, right?) The workalike can offer the server access service to anybody (legitimate copy or not), and at a much lower price than Stardock, since they don't have ...

Back in January, we noted that despite Steve Jobs's posturing on the music DRM front, Apple remains a big supporter and user of DRM and DRM-like schemes throughout their product lines. Over at the EFF blog, Fred von Lohmann suggests another potential ...

By Chris Meadows What is DRM? Why DRM? The DMCA and You To be fair, none of the current major e-book DRM scheme backers (Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon/Mobipocket, and Fictionwise/eReader) seems likely to go out of business right away—but then again, neither did Bear Stearns until it happened.

By Chris Meadows For those who know how to get around it, DRM is no longer anything more than a speedbump. And the know-how can be found in just a few minutes of Googling. There is hardly even any risk to those who do it—nobody is going to know that you cracked the copy protection on your e-books in the privacy of yo...

 - See DRM, the multiple court cases over DeCSS, the whole DMCA and its restrictions over discussion of security, the massive abuse of the patent system ...

By Nick Gonzalez Media Rights Technologies, makers of an anti-piracy X1 SeCure Recording Control technology, has issued a cease and desist letter to Apple, Microsoft, Real, and Adobe. The letter argues the multimedia players these companies produce are in violation of the DMCA because they avoided im...

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.

Is this legal for purchased WMAs?" IANAL but as I understand it you are allowed under fair use to make a backup for archival purposes. Of course in order to do that you have to break the encryption which would violate the DMCA. ...

The U.S. DMCA experience leaves little doubt that the introduction of anti-circumvention legislation will create some unintended consequences.  No matter how long the list of circumvention rights and other precautionary measures, it is impossible to identify all future concerns ass...

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) One last difference between the use of ERM to protect non-copyright works and DRM to protect copyrighted material is the DMCA. The Digital Millinium Copyright Act makes it a criminal offense to remove DRM, and other protection schemes, from copyrighted material. In effect this gives IP o...