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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Cronicles of DRM: Assult on Drive C:\Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Apr 14

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By rss@youtube.com (BoxedEntertainment21) None Author: BoxedEntertainment21 Keywords: Cronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena DRM Securom copy protection security Armake21 Added: April 14, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Jul 8

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By rss@youtube.com (fighterintheday) More: http://www.soundtaxi.us/ This video show how to convert DRM protected WMA to iPod AAC,you can use SoundTaxi Pro to remove DRM from any music. Author: fighterintheday Keywords: DRM-removal Remove-drm remove-copy-protection wma-to-aac Added: July 8, 2008

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Past Two Weeks

 

Rate The Gadget Blog: DVD-Ripping Man Wants Prosecution Under Law

Original at NewsFactor Network external link    Fri, Dec 4

yet at the same time prohibits attempts to disable copy protection technology. Mr. Anderson, after circumventing the DRM of his DVDs and effectively ... Dane asks police to arrest him to prove copyright pointNeoseeker Anti-Piracy Group To DRM Breaker: OK To Break The LawTorrentFreak (blog...

Rate Opinion: Secret ACTA deal to change IT forever

Original at Computerworld New Zealand external link    Thu, Dec 3

Next up for ACTA is a ban on breaking copy-protection measures by making it illegal to crack the digital rights management (DRM) tools put on DVDs, ... Super secret international treaty details leakedExaminer.com all 2 news articles »

Rate Akella Chooses ByteShield's DRM Solution to Protect Their Most Popular PC Games

Original at Gameinfowire.com external link    Sun, Nov 22

ByteShield's unique approach to DRM and copy protection provides users with a transparent, safe and un-intrusive solution while giving PC game and PC ...

Past Month

 

Rate Disciples III Dev Akella Signs DRM Deal With Byteshield

Original at Gamasutra external link    Thu, Nov 19

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Byteshield describes its technology as an account-based copy protection model that "enables users to run games on multiple computers without limiting their ...

Rate BBC faces Christmas woe over HD copy protection

Original at T3 external link    Tue, Nov 10

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schedule after failing in its plans to ease pressure from third-party TV studios by adding DRM copy protection to its high definition broadcasts. ... Ofcom knocks back BBC DRM plansBBC News BBC banned from using DRM on Freeview HDCrave

Rate SOC in Context

Original at Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment external link    Mon, Nov 9

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Ars Technica In a nutshell, Selectable Output Control is not just another form of copy protection or DRM. It gives Hollywood the power to remotely shut down part of your ... Hollywood DRM plan: put a Soc in itAgoravox (blog) all 5 news articles »

Rate How copyright has turned the record labels, software writers and film studios ...

Original at Lew Rockwell external link    Sun, Nov 8

What's DRM, you ask? DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Restrictions might be a more apt term than rights. DRM is, in short, copy protection ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Dev finds Windows Marketplace DRM severely lacking, easily circumventable

Original at Engadget external link    Thu, Oct 8

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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...

Rate License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?

Original at EFF.org Updates external link    Mon, Sep 14

By danny The BBC has indicated that third party content owners are seeking to ensure that reception equipment will implement ... copy protection. Because [these] requirements are not mandatory, representatives of content owners have asked the BBC to take steps to ensure that reception equipment...

Rate – A Company Specializing in PDF Document Security & Copy Protection

Original at video-de.tomshardware.com external link    Sat, Sep 5

video LockLizard – A DRM Company Specializing in PDF Document Security Copy Protection - www.locklizard.com LockLizard is a DRM (digital rights ... video-de.tomshardware.com

Rate Orwell in 2009: Dystopian Rights Management

Original at EFF.org Updates external link    Fri, Jul 17

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...

Rate Nokia Music Store to abandon DRM

Original at Mobile Entertainment external link    Wed, Jun 17

 UK Sources confirm move to MP3 in 2009 – and DRM could be removed from Comes With Music in 2010. At the UK launch of Nokia's N97 last night, ME learned that Nokia would follow the industry trend away from DRM by removing copy protection from its own music ...

Rate Interview: The Return Of... starforce?

Original at Gamasutra external link    Mon, Jun 15

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 CA Keeping in mind that copy protection and DRM are pretty important things for the game industry overall, the only thing we can do is to offer better products and services based on our past years' experience. We do not intend to repeat our past mistakes. ...

Rate Ghostbusters PC Requires Internet Connection, Doesn't Use It

Original at Kotaku.com external link    Sat, Jun 13

 NY Behind the scenes, it may be a misnomer to call it DRM, but there is a copy protection scheme - you've got to authenticate your disc the first time you play the game, and that requires Interwebs. If the basic expectation of a PC gamer is that he has an ...

Rate – A Company Specializing in PDF Document Security & Copy Protection

Original at archos.kewego.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

video LockLizard – A DRM Company Specializing in PDF Document Security Copy Protection - www.locklizard.com LockLizard is a DRM (digital rights ... archos.kewego.com

Rate European cellcos remove DRM from music stores

Original at Rethink Wireless external link    Tue, Jun 9

 UK By CAROLINE GABRIEL In their enthusiasm for mobile music revenues, European carriers are increasingly doing away with digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. The latest is T-Mobile in Germany and Austria, which has lifted DRM copy protection on ...

Rate Widevine Secures Best Buy, Blockbuster Content Online

Original at Contentinople external link    Mon, Jun 8

 NY But the partnership is not just about DRM. As part of the deal, Widevine will also provide adaptive streaming technology and interactive DVD features as well as DRM copy protection for video delivered via Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow video service. ...

Rate E3: ESA Head Likes Obama, Hates Piracy

Original at Softpedia external link    Fri, Jun 5

 Romania He underlined that “We as an industry are required to protect their content” but admitted that DRM was a controversial measure that could hurt legitimate players. There is a need to balance copy protection with user experience but the decision is ...

Rate The Witcher Getting a Tune-up

Original at Game Informer external link    Wed, Jun 3

Additionally version 1.5 of the game is completely DRM-free, meaning no more copy protection problems or disc checks. Developers embracing fan-made content and saying goodbye to obnoxious copy protection schemes? Why, those are two of our favorite ...

Rate 'The Witcher: Enhanced Edition' - v1.5 Patch Adds Content, Drops DRM

Original at WorthPlaying.com external link    Tue, Jun 2

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 ...

Rate CDP announces The Witcher: Enhanced Edition 1.5 & Director's Cut

Original at Neoseeker external link    Tue, Jun 2

Publishers CD Projekt (CDP) note that even more importantly, with 1.5, the game will be completely digital rights management (DRM)-free, meaning no more TAGES and no more disk check ("annoying copy protection", they call it). ... The Witcher: Enhanced Edition' - v1.5 Patch Adds Content, Dro...

Rate – A Company Specializing in PDF Document Security & Copy ProtectionVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at kewego.com external link    Fri, May 29

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www.locklizard.com LockLizard is a DRM (digital rights management) company specializes in document security and copy protection software for pdf ... kewego.com

Rate – A Company Specializing in PDF Document Security & Copy Protection

Original at kewego.fr external link    Fri, May 29

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www.locklizard.com LockLizard is a DRM (digital rights management) company specializes in document security and copy protection software for pdf ... kewego.fr

Rate Broken promises, or 'How GameStop's error cost Stardock a vacation'

Original at Joystiq external link    Wed, Apr 15

 CA Beyond losing vacation time, Wardell theorizes the early availability of Demigod will cause piracy of the copy protection-free title to be "maximized." But the outspoken (anti-intrusive DRM) exec says Demigod's early release may serve as proof of the ...

Rate Burn Your Purchased iTunes Movie to a DVD

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Mar 31

 CA Their method involves removing the DRM copy protection and burning the resulting file to a DVD using a couple of shareware applications, namely Tunebite for DRM removal and Aimersoft DVD Creator to burn the DVD. We're not keen on the cost of the ...

Rate New iTunes Pricing and DRM Removal Questions

Original at TheAppleBlog external link    Wed, Jan 7

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By Tom Reestman Like many users, I’m pleased that the labels are finally allowing Apple to sell music free of DRM copy protection. Given that the labels have allowed this for many other vendors (Amazon, Wal-Mart, Zune Store, etc.) I think they’ve been flirting with collusion on the iTunes store for a while...

Rate iTunes Price Cut: Apple Announces Tiered System, DRM-Free Tunes

Original at Huffington Post external link    Tue, Jan 6

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

Rate Apple drops copy protection from iTunes

Original at The Guardian (UK) external link    Tue, Jan 6

By Bobbie Johnson Apple today announced that its entire iTunes music catalogue will soon be available without any copy protection, after agreeing a new deal with the world's major record labels. By the end of the quarter all 10 million songs will be DRM free in iTunes and iTunes plus," said Phil Schiller, Ap...

Rate iTunes Drops Most Copy Protection, Varies Prices

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Jan 6

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By Kevin Purdy Update: Gizmodo confirms the announcement. The good news: CNET has sources saying the three largest music labels will allow Apple to offer music downloads free of copy-protection. And the bad news might not be that bad. Will variable, DRM-free pricing make you a (new or returning) iTunes c...

Rate Upgrading to a DRM-free iTunes library will cost you

Original at CNET News.com external link    Tue, Jan 6

Apple will not only offer new tracks stripped of copy-protection software, it will let you remove DRM from your existing iTunes collection--for 30 cents per song.

Rate Transfer iTunes Library to Zune

Original at DMO Blog Zone external link    Mon, Jan 5

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By treesing If you have moved from Apple iPod to Microsoft Zune, you probably have some songs that you purchased from the iTunes Music Store that you would like to move to the new device. You will run into a hurdle if you try to transfer the files directly as Apple's copy protection prevents the song from p...

Rate Championship Manager Dev Reports 90% Piracy Rate

Original at Shacknews external link    Mon, Jan 5

Despite Meredith's obvious concern regarding piracy, he recognizes that adding DRM copy protection to the upcoming Championship Manager 2009 could create even more problems. There's a real issue around DRM... I'd love to defeat pirates, but actually, with all this mess on Spore and Footb...

Rate Podcast: Buzz Out Loud 856: Competition FTW

Original at Buzz Out Loud external link    Wed, Nov 19

By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) Apple’s new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures(thanks Mager!) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/18/apples_new_macbooks_have_built_in_copy_protection_measures.html

Rate Apple Macbooks — new feature

Original at p2pnet.net external link    Tue, Nov 18

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By Jon High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a, “form of digital copy protection developed by Intel Corporation to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across DisplayPort, Digital Visual Interface (DVI), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (...

Rate Convert itunes to DVD, burn itunes movie tv shows cartoon to DVD ...

Original at digWin external link    Mon, Nov 10    26 related articles

Burn itunes movie and protected tv shows to dvd. This article is mainly to tell us how to Remove iTunes DRM copy-protection and burn iTunes movie and tv shows to DVD, so.. more » ...

Rate MobileRead DRM poll: Many savvy e-bookers are bypassing ‘protection’ hassles despite DMCA law

Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home external link    Sun, Nov 9

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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...

Rate Opinion: Gaming community turning against Electronic Arts over bundled DRM, malware

Original at Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog external link    Sat, Oct 25

By Andrew(noreply@blogger.com) The name of the second program is SecuROM, which is a form of Digital Rights Management (DRM) for computer games. Although consumers are told that the game uses access control and copy protection technology, consumers are not told that this technology is actually an entirely separate, s...

Rate Spore Developer: DRM Necessary for PC Games

Original at DigitalBattle external link    Sat, Aug 16

By Rajiv Ashrafi While DRM may be on its way to extinction when it comes to music, it is having a fun time on PC gamers. EA’s upcoming life simulation game Spore was said to have a controversial copy protection scheme that would have gamers activate ...

Rate Spore Dev: DRM 'Necessary Part' of Our Business

Original at Shacknews external link    Fri, Aug 15

 - Aug 15, 2008 by Aaron Linde Aug 15, 2008 2:21pm CST tags: Spore, DRM Executive producer Lucy Bradshaw described the copy protection built into EA Maxis' upcoming ...

Rate Sony adds DRM to upcoming PlayTV PS3 add-on

Original at CD Freaks.com external link    Thu, Aug 14

 Netherlands - Aug 14, 2008 Unfortunately, Sony has now gone back to its old habit and decided to enforce DRM copy protection on the device, which means that PlayTV recordings made on ...

Rate DRM Clarification for Mass Effect and Spore - Gamers Hell

Original at gamershell.com external link    Fri, May 9

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In this Official BioWare/EA Response to DRM Discussion thread, BioWare has annouced that Mass Effect will not require 10- day periodic re-authentication ... EA cut down copy protection Play.tm BioWare backs down over Mass Effect authentication gamezine.co.uk

Rate Burn itunes movie and protected tv shows to dvd

Original at Pixel Groovy external link    Wed, Apr 9    26 related articles

This article is mainly to tell us how to Remove iTunes DRM copy-protection and burn iTunes movie and tv shows to DVD, so that we can enjoy movies on large screen TV, it's very informative.

Year 2007

 

Rate Apple iTunes DRM Free Tracks Contain User Data

Original at tipsdr.com external link    Fri, Jun 1

By Jimmy Daniels Specifically, if you burn a playlist of iTunes’ protected music to a CD in iTunes 7.2 and then rip that CD in the MP3 format (a trick people often use to remove the tracks’ copy protection), those MP3 tracks won’t copy to an iPod. Try, and you’ll be told that the tracks are incompatible with the i...

Rate Patch: DRM-Free tracks now available on iTunes Plus

Original at TechSpot external link    Wed, May 30    4 related articles

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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...

Rate Opinion: Shelly Palmer: What DRM-Free Audio Means for Video

Original at Huffington Post external link    Fri, May 18

By Shelly Palmer Next, when they say DRM-free, they mean a file without copy protection or anti-copying software. They do not mean that the file won't have digital identification that might link it to its legal owner or other tracking software attached to it.

Rate Apple Taking On Music DRM Restrictions

Original at Sci-Tech Today external link    Mon, May 7

Last month, Britain's EMI Music Group PLC, home to artists such as Coldplay, Norah Jones and Joss Stone, agreed to let iTunes sell tracks without the copy-protection technology known as digital-rights management. The DRM-free tracks cost 30 cents more than copy-restricted versions o...

Rate Sony offers fix for broken DVDs

Original at Engadget external link    Wed, Apr 18

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By Ben Drawbaugh Filed under: Home EntertainmentFor those still living in the 90's and having problems with Sony's ARccOS copy protection scheme for DVDs, Sony has updated the system and is offering replacement discs to those who request them. Some studios just won't give up on DRM, and while CSS and more...

Rate New Sony DVD DRM breaks Sony DVD players

Original at Boing Boing external link    Tue, Apr 17

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By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: New Sony DVDs have been corrupted with a DRM system that renders them unplayable on many DVD players -- including Sony players: Reports are starting to pile up of unhappy encounters with a new copy-protection system that Sony is baking into commercial DVD release and whic...

Rate DRM patch expires hacked Blu-ray and HD DVD encryption keys

Original at PC Pro external link    Thu, Apr 12

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.

Rate Opinion: Steve Jobs Tells the Truth; But One Step Remains

Original at PC Magazine external link    Tue, Feb 6

By MichaelMiller This afternoon, he published a long statement  on the Apple web site that pretty much calls for the end of Digital Rights Management (DRM) on music. And then, can we talk about DRM and copy protection on movies?   Jobs and Disney surely have some ideas there.

Rate Sony BMG Settles DRM Case with FTC

Original at Digitaltrends.com external link    Wed, Jan 31

The debacle regarding copy-protection software tucked away on certain Sony BMG audio CDs has taken one more step into the history books. Sony BMG has agreed to a settlement with the FTC, and, in doing so, acknowledges that it violated federal law by not telling consumers its music CDs cont...

Rate Opinion: Alpha Geek: CDs vs. Downloads

Original at Lifehacker external link    Mon, Jan 8

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By Rick Broida The Bad: They typically cost more than downloads, and you have to buy the whole album; anti-rip copy protection is a problem on some discs; scratches can impede playback; you have to go a store (or pay shipping) to get them; you have to store them; jewel cases are evil.

Year 2006

 

Rate myTunes: the simplified iTunes DRM stripper for Windows

Original at Engadget external link    Fri, Sep 1

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By Ryan Block So the first thing we did was, of course, update to the very latest version of iTunes for Windows (6.0.5.20) and buy a song from the iTunes Music Store. As you'd expect, this is what happened with the AAC file tried to play in VLC. No go -- that's copy protection for ya!

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

Original at Engadget external link    Sun, Aug 27

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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.

Year 2005

 

Rate Podcast: Digital Piracy

Original at BusinessWeek external link    Tue, Dec 13

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...

Rate Opinion: Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005

Original at DRM external link    Wed, Jun 29

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) Physical media and software always have sinister, brightly-hued copyright warnings, but I've yet to see even one CD or DVD that warns me that it also has built-in copy protection. Nor are there labels that explain how my rightfully purchased media or new software CD can't be accessed on my...

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Year 2008

 

Rate How to remove DRM from windows WMV WMA

Original at Corvette Fever Magazine Forums external link    Fri, Aug 8

What is DRM? Why do we remove DRM from windows WMV and WMA? DRM (Digital Rights Management) - The anti consumer copy protection that prevents you from using music or movies in a way that suits you. For example, if a DRM WMA or DRM WMV ...

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