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Content Protection madness on Vista: Content Protection madness on VistaBlu-Ray Deserves To FailI agree and am with you 100%. DRM will go away when consumers vote with their wallets. We have already seen some of this with the music industry.Blu-Ray/Sony = EPIC FAILBlu-Ray can kiss my DVD-Loving butt :)I would love to see...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Consumer electronics, digital-rights management, Content Protection, Microsoft Windows Vista, HDCP, mplayer, DVD, DRM IS; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
Zune of the future may come with copyright cop: Zune of the future may come with copyright copIt certainly would be nice if MS showed some backbone ...... and said that its customers would hate it, so forget about it. MS is really irritating when it comes to siding with big content against its customers.Zune of the future should...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, AmazonMP3, Microsoft Zune, Zune IS, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?: iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?Adrian, I do not think it is a lack of ....motivation as much of lack of knowing that DRM even exist until they are trapped by it.Oh, come on man...You think people are stupid about this in...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, Apple iTunes; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?: One day, two emails, two very different viewpoints: Email #1: "DRM on songs sold through iTunes is a necessary evil, there to protect artists and the labels from piracy." Email #2: "Apple's FairPlay DRM is nothing more than a tool that locks you into buying iPods...; Tags: Apple iPod, Digital-rights Management, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Media, Digital Music, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-08
iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVD: iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVDJobs one Awesome NegotiatorAs Silicon Valley Insider said "Steve Jobs Gets His Mega Studio Deal".Steve Jobs sees to be an incredible negotiator and seemingly has a magic touch in bending very tough managers from very different industries to his will.Examples: signing all those...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, movie, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes, DVD, Steve Jobs; Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft: Good Microsoft, Bad MicrosoftMS is Straddling The FenceMS appears to be straddling the fence in the area of DRM. It appears the company doesn't want to tick off big content owners, so it does what big content tells it to do. So when big content says MS should screw over...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp., Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft; Discussion threads 2008-04-23
Microsoft woos hobbyist developers: Microsoft woos hobbyist developersThis infomercial is inconsistent with existing informationPerhaps one of the resident Microsoft fan boys can explain the shift to "Wooing hobbyists" on the back of this -http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/msft-our-drm-licensi.htmlA Microsoft spokesman has described their DRM licensing scheme as a system for reducing the number of device vendors to a...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-04-18
Drm-Removal (4): Easily convert DRM protected music files and various audio files to unprotected MP3, CD, iPod and other MP3 player file formats at high speed and CD quality - legally. With just a few mouse clicks you can enjoy all your protected songs on iPod, any other MP3 player, CD player,...; Tags: Apple iPod, CD, Digital-rights Management, MP3 Player, MP3, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Media Players, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-04-18
MAC M4P Converter (dmg): MAC M4P Converter is the legal tool to convert iTunes protected files to unprotected music files. It is a DRM copy-protected audio and music converter designed for burning DRM protected music to a special virtual CD-RW drive where you can easily get unprotected MP3 files ready for use on any...; Tags: MAC, Digital-rights Management, Audio Book, AhaMediaSoft, MAC M4P Converter, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-04-17
Widevine and Microsoft team up for DRM on Silverlight: Widevine and Microsoft team up for DRM on SilverlightYippee!Just what the world needs: more DRM. People must come to terms with just how much the music and movie industries are suffering in today's tough economic times....Move Networks on SilverlightJust a clarification from your story: Does Move use VC-1?...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., team, digital-rights management, Microsoft Silverlight, Move Network, codec; Discussion threads 2008-04-14
Widevine and Microsoft team up for DRM on Silverlight: Microsoft has its own kind of DRM in Silverlight which is based on the DRM found in Windows Media but it sounds like they're also working with Widevine to Silverlight-enable their Cypher service which also works with Flash and the On2 codec. In general, I don't think...; Tags: Team, Microsoft Silverlight, Content Provider, Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Corp., Widevine, Media World, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-04-14
Apple tutorials: great free training: Apple tutorials: great free trainingAdding Blu-Ray to the Mac ....... would require a major rewrite of OSX to support trusted path, the dreaded DRM. That is probably not going to happen any time soon!RE: Apple tutorials: great free trainingSurprised you haven't listed the best site of them all...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Workforce management, Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, training; Discussion threads 2008-04-14
Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucks: Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucksI agreeYep, the UK broadcasts look pretty swanky.But, whenever they're showing clips from US news shows or playing Friends on Channel 4 (so that's about... 90% of the day?), the quality is crap. Whether its just because US TV...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, TV & Home Theater, digital-rights management, DRM Sucks, HD-DVD, Friday Rant, perfect example, TV; Discussion threads 2008-04-11
Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucks: It's a Friday (again!) so that means time for another Friday Rant! Today a cautionary tale for those of you buying HD DVD players and discs. If you've been looking at the slew of cheap HD DVD discs and players on the market and feel that this...; Tags: Digital-rights Management, HD-DVD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-11
Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs: Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVsA waste of timeIt never ceases to amaze me. We have seen that music is pretty much dead in the water insofar as getting people to pay for it. DRM is also heading the way of the dodo in music content terms. Movies will follow the...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blockbuster Inc., music, digital-rights management, TV; Discussion threads 2008-04-11
DRM Converter (4): DRM Converter is an extremely easy solution to convert protected and non-protected audio or video files except DVDs. It supports almost all existing input formats. Output formats are non-protected MP3, AAC or WAV for audio and MPEG4 or DivX for video. Version 3.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug...; Tags: Audio, Digital-rights Management, Video, Ramka, DRM Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Marketing, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-04-10
iTunes leaps to the top of the charts: iTunes leaps to the top of the chartsThis argument doesn't wash any longer...With Amazon offering MP3's without DRM, the ONLY reason one HAS to use iTunes is to load the Amazon purchased MP3's onto the iPod which is what I do.The surveys don't count iTunes use. It counts _purchases_.I do...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), Apple iTunes, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-04-03
Circumventing iPod's FairPlay DRM: Circumventing iPod's FairPlay DRMFirst complaintI love it when journalists state their opinions as absolute fact.Seriously. The first complaint is that they can't sync their iPod to more than one computer?I know a dozen iPod owners and not one of them has ever made that complaint to me.So, my anecdotal evidence...; Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Digital rights management (DRM), Apple iPod, Circumventing iPod, Apple iTunes, FairPlay DRM, digital-rights management, computer; Discussion threads 2008-03-25
Apple's new AirPort Express 802.11n takes the slow lane: Apple's new AirPort Express 802.11n takes the slow laneAirTunesIf you're looking to stream music, then it's either Airport Xpress or AppleTV, but then AppleTV won't handle an external HD either. On the other hand, AirportXtreme or TimeCapsule will give you the HD, but don't give you AirTunes. It seems you...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Wi-Fi, Time Capsule, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, Apple AirPort Express, AirPort Express 802.11n, music, new AirPort Express 802.11n, slow lane, IEEE 802.11n; Discussion threads 2008-03-20
Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards: Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cardsA dead duckAny time I see "proprietary", it just reminds me that people will use it because they have to, until the next big thing comes along. Theres also the issue of cost.Speaking about the reality, there is a lot of internet movie copying...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Memory, Digital media, digital-rights management, movie, memory card, flash memory, video store; Discussion threads 2008-03-03