Digital Rights Management

By rss@youtube.com (jeffmccord) It's Superbowl weekend and we have huge rumors to discuss: a new iPhone is out there, a new Kindle is coming in Feb. and it's the perfect time to buy an HDTV. Also, iTunes changes their DRM-free policy. Keywords: Moxie Mo Show Superbowl HD TV iPhone new next generation Kindle 2 Amazon iTunes mus...

By Kirk Biglione Now that publishers are balking at even a single loan, it’s starting to look like LendMe will be B&N’s equivalent of Kindle Text To Speech (TTS). Earlier this year Amazon introduced a feature that allowed the Kindle device to read any book aloud. That feature was eventually reigned in w...

By John Herrman Naturally, the main content source is the B&N ebook store, which has a reasonable—though not spectacular—selection of magazines and newspapers too. What the Nook has that other B&N-compatible readers don't, though, is sharing. As with Amazon's Kindle iPhone app, the Barnes &...

By Kirk Biglione The best way to prevent piracy is by making it easier to buy a product than it is to steal the same product. Despite my many reservations about Kindle’s proprietary DRM, Amazon has made the Kindle book buying experience frictionless. Publishers who fear piracy should work to emulate the Kin...

By Jacqueline Emigh Irex, though, faces big competition, not only from the Kindle and other e-readers but also from tablets from PC vendors, including the long-rumored Apple and the recently rumored Microsoft "Courier." Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2009

By Darren Murph Last we heard from Astak, it was quietly peddling some off-the-wall Mentor e-book reader based on a drab OEM model that every other no-name reader manufacturer uses. Now, however, it seems the company has a bit more pep in its step (though it's still copying others, this time the BeBook), a...

By corynne Leave Content on Kindles Alone: Amazon should permanently and irrevocably disable the "feature" that gives Amazon the ability to control, access and delete the books, newspapers and other content its users have purchased. (The Free Software Foundation has launched a petition callin...

By hugh The Ministry of Truth would have truly appreciated DRM and tethered devices. As many owners of Kindle e-books discovered this morning, electronic books that come rigged with DRM "copy protection," stored on e-book readers subject to Amazon remote control, can be made to disappear at th...

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 Paul Miller Well, here's a nice start to what Jeff Bezos was saying about giving the Kindle reader team some competition: Amazon just released source code for all its Kindle devices. It's fairly basic Linux underneath (kernel 2.6.22 on the latest 2.1 software), but obviously includes E Ink drivers and o...

It's going to be the Digital Rights Management (DRM) that will hobble it. Let's play out a few scenarios to see why. This scenario imagines the Kindle DX is ... and more »

I have bought a Sony PRS-505 reader and I like it due to it works very nicely with PDF files. But still it has DRM built in and is a pain. by umbrae May 29, 2009 11:52 AM PDT The newer Kindle (the big one) will allow you to view non-DRM PDF. ... UK study claims DRM encourages piracy TechSpot

The Cool-er is also said to support a variety of formats, including JPEG, PDF, TXT, and Adobe's DRM/EPUB. The latter is said to open the door to a wider variety of publications than are offered by the Kindle.

By tim In a statement, The Authors Guild called the protest "unfortunate and unnecessary," and declared, "We will not surrender our members' economic rights to Amazon or anyone else." They offered a novel solution to the problem: Amazon could maintain a registry of verified blind and disable...

 CA Though, to be fair, it finally did cave into the industry’s demand for a three-tier pricing structure for iTunes, which should go into effect shortly. Of course, the music labels had to use perhaps their last big bargaining chip to get that: DRM-free ...

By Joe Wikert “The Kindle is DRM agnostic.” Keep in mind that he’s CEO of Amazon, and that the company that has built a pretty solid DRM fortress around the Kindle—at least for Kindle content you buy from Amazon. Tightly wrapped in DRM Why not DRMless PDF and ePub options?

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.