Digital Rights Management

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.

iTunes' new variable pricing: What do you think? Entertainment Weekly paidContent.org - Amazon May Be Gaining Traction In The MP3 Market Washington Post iTunes goes DRM-free, but jacks up pricing National Business Review Boston Herald - PC World

PC World  VA Update: Apple has denied that any DRM authentication mechanism is involved. The matter drew considerable attention after iLounge reported in its review of the petite player that Apple was doing something "sneaky and arguably terrible for consumers" ...

By Wilson Rothman You're snickering. Not about the baseball bat (I hope), but about the whole spending-money-on-iTunes thing. Yep, I am a recovered iTunes DRM-music-buying addict. I still pay for music, but now Amazon is the legitimate source of all my thankfully DRM-free impulse buys.

By Chris Meadows If you want a disc that can play in a DVD player and a PC you have to rip the movie then burn the DVD off the ripped file. And this shows how DRM only hurts the consumers because you still can pirate the DVD (which a lot have already done), but the real consumer can’t even use the real copy.

By matt buchanan • PlayReady is another Microsoft DRM flavor, aimed mostly at portable devices, but it also powers the DRM in Microsoft's Silverlight, which is what just brought Netflix streaming to Macs. • Not software DRM per se, but Windows Vista has a ton of DRM technologies baked right into it.

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...

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter Suber) Design/methodology/approach – Traditional DRM and open licensing initiatives lack the required computerised support and flexibility to scale to internet-wide copyright management. Our approach is based on a semantic web ontology that conceptualises the copyright domain.

NO DRM , higher quality , lower price. iTunes is past it`s prime . Amazon is actually allowed more music selection by the "big four" than iTunes , because ... Apple may close iTunes music store if price hike approved Australian Personal Computer

and just about all of them have one thing in common: pure, vile hatred of the game's digital rights management, or DRM (via Destructoid). ... Spore hit by DRM protest Financial Times Spore gamers turn nasty over DRM - Amazon review roasting TECH.BLORGE.com Will DRM Exterminate Spore? Slashdot

 CA - May 21, 2008 And of course it must be mentioned that every song on Napster's MP3 store is DRM-free, meaning it can be transferred to an unlimited number of computers and ... Napster heads into the DRM-free music arena Entertainment 3.0 TUAW Review: Napster MP3 store tuaw.com

By Seth Schoen Finally, there's a classic suite of arguments against DRM that will be as true for online video as they were for music. DRM doesn't move additional product. DRM is grief for honest end-users. And there's no reason to imagine that new DRM systems will stop copyright infringement any more effe...

CD copying OK, DRM circumvention not OK  UK - By Andrew Orlowski → More by this author Circumventing DRM to make copies for personal use will remain illegal for consumers, under copyright reform ... First step taken in copyright consultation process Information World Review

By adam frucci Other price discrepancies include Air's Pocket Symphony ($8.99 on Amazon, $9.22 on Wal-Mart), Broken Social Scene's self-titled album ($7.99 on amazon, $9.44 on Wal-Mart), and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane ($8.97 on Amazon, $9.22 on Wal-Mart). More often than not, the prices are better on A...

By Nate DeYoung Besides not DRMing its music, Amazon’s early apparent success can be chalked up to a clean interface, lower prices and most of all, the ability to easily transfer music to the iPod. Arguably, Amazon’s MP3 store has pressured Apple to recently drop prices and increase selection for DRM-fr...

By Danny Mendez An added benefit of downloading your music via Amazon as opposed to iTunes is the lack of DRM. Most of iTunes' music comes encoded with DRM, preventing you from using YOUR music on anything other than an iPod or the computer to which the music is registered.

By Nick Gonzalez Online music has been one of the most tumultuous categories online. Ever since Napster launched in the late 90’s, the music industry has been scrambling for a new model. DRM was once thought the industry’s saving grace, but consumer frustrations and movements from big players like Apple h...

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.

 NY - While this is not strictly speaking DRM, the patent application nonetheless contemplates the technology's use as a means of access control, which is after ... Apple vs. The World: PatentMonkey IP-Review CrunchGear all 2 news articles

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 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.

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.

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...

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 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.

By jimmypalmer@gmail.com (DRM) With the hardware talk out of the way, let’s compare the software and digital rights management that will be included in these HD players. The video encoding software that has been adopted by both standards is known as VC-1 which was developed by Microsoft. Microsoft has now turned over lic...

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...