Digital Rights Management

By rss@youtube.com (grooveshark) Author: grooveshark Keywords: grooveshark groove shark emi apple itunes steve jobs drm free p2p music Added: April 3, 2007

By rss@youtube.com (nsputnik) A clip from Cory Doctorow - Pwned: How copyright turns us all into IP serfs. A talk at UNC iBiblio on DRM. See the whole thing at http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/speakers/doctorow_07/ Author: nsputnik Keywords: Cory Doctorow Steve Jobs DRM Pixar DVD boingboing

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 David Rothman Reminder: Apple plans to let ScrollMotion use Apple DRM on e-books in SM’s format. Speak up! Also put in a word for ePub. Do we really want Steve Jobs rather than the IDPF setting e-book standards? Related: Techmeme roundup on iTunes’ new DRM-free arrangements.

By David Rothman On top of everything else, ScrollMotion uses Apple FairPlay DRM. I thought Steve Jobs was backing off from that silliness. Now the word is that he’ll get a percentage of each sale. And this on top of censorship at the app store! If Jobs and Apple screw up the iPhone as an e-book machine, will Stan...

By Jon p2pnet news view Music | DRM:- Get stuffed, Apple boss Steve Jobs has told Norway. Response from Apple? Zip. “The announcement follows the passing of a November 3rd deadline that Mr. Thon had given Apple to comply with his country’s demand that Apple open up iTunes downloads to all players.”

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...

Offer a thank you for Apple dropping iTunes DRM eMusic, the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the world’s second-largest digital music retailer is cheekily offering Apple’s Steve Jobs a free lifetime subscription for his new iPhone, according to 901am.com. The offer wa...

If Amazon brings its plans to bear, it would follow in the footsteps of Microsoft, which followed in the footsteps of Apple with its Zune digital media player and online music store. Microsoft, too, is rumored to be considering DRM-free music, all spurred by Apple CEO Steve Jobs' open lett...

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Anti-DRM activists rap Steve Jobs VNUNet.com, UK - Mar 8, 2007 The campaign is run by defectivebydesign.org, a branch of the Free Software Foundation that opposes the use of digital rights management (DRM) software. ...

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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 Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: After Steve Jobs announced that he'd remove DRM from the iTunes Music Store "in a heartbeat" if rightsholders would let him, Clay wrote and recorded a new version of John Lennon's "Imagine," with lyrics reflecting his ...

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By Jimmy Daniels No DRM! No DRM! No DRM! Apple DRM Apple, DRM The MASTER of marketing, Steve Jobs of Apple has put out a call to the big four music companies to allow them to sell DRM free music in the iStore. I have not heard a truer statement in awhile than this one, “So if the music companies are selling over 90 pe...

By Grant Robertson Steve Jobs released an open letter to iTunes critics yesterday entitled, ... in which he discusses DRM, the major label system and why iTunes isn't "open. ... It tends to over-simplify the DRM debate by discounting any open alternative. ...

Backing up a bit, he explained that music companies may feel protected by their DRM, but DRM hasn't worked in the past and it won't work in the future. His solution: we got three choices. We can either continue on the path we're on now, license out FairPlay, or destroy DRM once and for all. Imagin...

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.

subscription), NY - Feb 6, 2007 To begin, it is useful to remember that all iPods play music that is free of any DRM and encoded in "open" licensable formats such as MP3 and AAC. ...

By Xeni Jardin With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, ...