Digital Rights Management

By rss@youtube.com (wifiinternetguy) My very first Apple Mac How To! I hope you enjoy it. BTW This is completely legal. Author: wifiinternetguy Keywords: "Music Songs" ITunes Songs Music DRM Added: December 29, 2008

This tutorial page takes about how to free remove DRM from iTunes 8 music and add iTunes protected AAC (M4P) music to non-Apple MP3 players.

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By Mike Schramm The thing about DRM is that there are always exceptions to the rules-- while Apple has released lots of DRM-free music, lots of it is still bogged down by DRM, and if you're like me, you disagree that any music you purchase should be limited in the ways that you use it.

By Mat Lu Filed under: iTS, iTunesOur own Erica was one of the first to discover that personal information is encoded in DRM-free iTunes Plus files. If you want to remove that watermarking, Playlist Magazine has a solution: TUAW favorite audio editor Fission ($32) from Rogue Amoeba "can strip out...

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...

By Paul Miller Filed under: Portable AudioHere's a new one on us. Instead of suing companies for infringing on its patents, like all the cool kids are doing, Media Rights Technologies has sent cease and desist letters to Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe for "actively avoiding" the use of its te...

By Joe Lewis Crusaders against Digital Rights Management (DRM) believe the practice does nothing to curtail music piracy while placing unnecessary restrictions on downloaded audio content. In a move that should please the anti-DRM contingent, EMI has announced that it will remove the restricti...

EMI Group announced in an early-morning press conference that it will remove digital rights management restrictions from their music offered on Apple's iTunes service, offering tracks at higher sound quality and at a slightly higher price.

By Zonk An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica is reporting that EMI may announce on Monday that it will be freeing much of its catalog from the shackles of DRM. The Wall Street Journal, in a subscription-only portion of its site, is saying that that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be present at the anno...

By Jon Healey EMI has finally found a way to persuade Apple to raise the price of a digital music download: remove the most annoying feature (the electronic locks) and improve the sound quality (to appease the small portion of the market that could hear the difference between a CD and a yet more compress...

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.

Fred Amoroso, copy-protection giant Macrovision's president and CEO, issued a statement late last week, initially thanking Jobs for initiating the debate, then quickly moving to correct the Apple chief's stance on DRM. In a nutshell, Amoroso argued that DRM is broader than music, tha...

Fred Amoroso, copy-protection giant Macrovision's president and CEO, issued a statement late last week, initially thanking Jobs for initiating the debate, then quickly moving to correct the Apple chief's stance on DRM. In a nutshell, Amoroso argued that DRM is broader than music, tha...

Apple indicated it would open its iTunes store to other portable players besides its ubiquitous iPod if major record labels abandoned the anti-piracy technology that serves as the industry's security blanket. Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, made the case for abolishing the prot...

In an unusual step, Apple chief Steve Jobs posted a "thoughts on music" essay on Apple's Web site which encouraged record labels to put an end to DRM-encoded music, and noted that protected music files have not stopped piracy. A consumer group in Norway, which has attempted to force Apple t...

In an unusual step, Apple chief Steve Jobs posted a "thoughts on music" essay on Apple's Web site which encouraged record labels to put an end to DRM-encoded music, and noted that protected music files have not stopped piracy. A consumer group in Norway, which has attempted to force Apple t...

By Andy Merrett Organisations representing France, Germany, Finland, and Norway, are uniting their individual legal efforts to get Apple to remove its DRM (Digital Rights Management) locks. 3. Work with others to make a common DRM standard - yes that includes Microsoft.

By Richard K The Norwegian Consumer Council brought the action against Apple claiming the company's Fairplay DRM is against consumers' interests, Out-Law.com reported. (Does this mean that in Norway corporate actions against the interests of consumers is illegal?! What would happen if the US had...

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...

By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow) Cory Doctorow: A spokesman for the US Department of Justice has counseled European governments to stop investigating the anti-competitive, anti-consumer aspects of Apple's iTunes DRM. Apple imposes their DRM even when musicians ask not to have it applied to their music, and they have...