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- Ding dong, the witch is dead
- Music piracy was born in the early 1970s. The cassette tape recorder was new and the Dolby B encoding for reducing background hiss was even newer. The state of the art was long-playing records -- made of vinyl, LPs had their own shortcomings but when new they produced...
- Tags: Government, Legal, General, DRM, Digital Restrictions Management, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?
- The rest of the world is beginning to get hip to what happens when the provider of a digital rights management technology DRM decides to change gears as Microsoft recently did when it essentially forked its DRM into two versions: one that it keeps for itself and its Zune brand...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Security, Entertainment, Digital Restrictions Management, Legal, Hollywood on Demand
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Doctorow: Only masochists will buy Microsoft's Zune
- So far, by the looks of Microsofts official site for Zune (which will no doubt get activated with a full blown iTunes Music Store-like store come Zunes anticipated launch date of Nov 15), Microsofts fashion strategy for Zune which is it really what it needs to succeed is to go...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Mobile, Entertainment, Digital Restrictions Management, Hollywood on Demand, Microsoft Zune
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- FSF-backed DRM protesters don hazmat suits at WinHEC
- According to DVD-Recordable.org:As Microsoft developers gathered in Seattle to hear Bill Gates's keynote speech on the future of Microsoft and the coming release of its updated operating system Vista, protesters wearing bright yellow Hazmat suits swarmed the entrance of the city's convention center, delivering an unsettling message to the corporation:...
- Tags: Crap, Digital Restrictions Management
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Google: New channel for Microsoft's DRM?
- Reuters on ZDNN: Internet giant Google is in talks with digital music service Napster over an "extensive alliance" that could include an "outright acquisition," according to a Tuesday report in the New York Post, citing anonymous sources....Google has been in discussions with Napster to offer...
- Tags: digital restrictions management, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
- Are we heading for a serious identity crisis?
- If you've been following our series on Digital Restrictions Management DRM [sic], then you know that DRM is wall-building material when it comes to turning the Internet into a bunch of segregated nets or "walled-gardens." Apple has its walled garden consisting of the iTunes Music Store (as a source...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, Digital Restrictions Management, digital-rights management, DRM IS
- Blog posts 2006-01-09
- Watermarks: A better DRM than DRM itself?
- If you're a digital content expert or you've encountered my series of blog posts on Digital Restrictions Management DRM, then you should know by now that the "R" in DRM is officially for the word "rights" and not the "Restrictions" that I have been using as a permanent substitute. ...
- Tags: TiVo Inc., Digital Restrictions Management, TiVoToGo, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2005-11-30
- TiVo warms to the iPod
- The video iPod isn't the first portable device to play video, but it is an iPod and that seems to make all the difference. I think it will be a watershed in portable video--finally making it mainstream. TiVo apparently can't ignore it either: today...
- Tags: TiVo Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-11-21
- Sony rootkit: The untold story
- In light of the way Bruce Schneier has published Sony's DRM Rootkit: The real story -- a story that recounts how quickly things have gone from bad to worse for Sony, I thought it would only be fitting to publish the untold story (does our industry have the equivalent of...
- Tags: Sony Corp., rootkit
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- Sony Music CDs surreptitiously install DRM Trojan horses on PCs
- Reports are beginning to turn up around the Web that discuss how certain CDs from Sony Music come with a Trojan horse-based digital restrictions management DRM technology that surreptitiously installs itself as a rootkit on Windows PCs. When software surreptitiously installs a rootkit, it's usually doing...
- Tags: CD, rootkit
- Blog posts 2005-11-01
- DRM technology has its first two major trainwrecks
- Sooner or later, it was bound to happen -- a Digital Restrictions Management DRM management technology that, by design, often keeps you from consuming that content on devices that use other DRM technologies actually ends up keeping you from consuming content that's protected by it as well. Talk...
- Tags: Digital Restrictions Management, digital-rights management, DRM Technology
- Blog posts 2005-10-28
- Gates rails against Blu-ray DRM (but Microsoft's is OK?)
- According to an interview of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates by the Daily Princetonian, Gates thinks that the Blu-ray DVD format (recently backed by Warner Bros.) is "anti-consumer." Microsoft, Intel, and other companies are backing an alternative to Blu-ray known as HD DVD. Said Gates in the interview:...
- Tags: anti-consumer, Blu-ray disc, Digital Restrictions Management, Microsoft Corp., PlaysForSure
- Blog posts 2005-10-21
- No surprise: DRM nightmare rears ugly head. Again.
- No surprise: DRM nightmare rears ugly head. Again.As Dennis Miller likes to say...Screw it. Lets have Pie!If what the MPAA and RIAA wants is for me to just step back and out of any and all media purchases, then they have accomplished their goal.It's just too damned much...
- Tags: digital-rights management, Digital Restrictions Management
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
- Music buyers step-up downpayment on their own DRM noose
- As I've already written several times before in our series on Digital Restrictions Management DRM, every time one of us buys another piece of DRMed content (eg: a song from iTunes), we are securing the legacy of the DRM cartel while giving it carte blanche to arbitrarily decide how we...
- Tags: Digital Restrictions Management, digital music, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2005-10-04
- We the Sheeple (and other tales of DRM woe)
- This past Friday, I wrote my personal Delcaration of InDRMpendence. It scratches the surface of why we must place a citizens' injunction on Digital Restrictions Management DRM technology before it's too late. If you didn't realize that the "R" in DRM stands for "Restrictions" instead of "Rights,"...
- Tags: Digital Restrictions Management
- Blog posts 2005-10-03
Additional Resources
- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower
- A six-year-old developer of reflective display technologies has snagged an indoor albeit heavily sunlit installation with the New England Patriots. Take a look. What makes Magink's technology interesting is not just the brightness of the picture OR the...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Magink, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Restraining order against RealDVD stands
- As I suspected, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel today granted a temporary restraining order against Real's selling its RealDVD software. Real's next hope: a full-blown hearing into a permanent injunction. The judge said she needed more time to fully investigate whether the software in fact violates the Digital...
- Tags: Copy Protection, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Obama, McCain support making debates public
- Both Obama and McCain have come out in favor of the Open Debate Coalition's call to open the presidential debates for fair use on the Internet, Wired reports. Obama sent a letter to Coalition leader Larry Lessig. He quoted his own letter to Democratic Party chairman last...
- Tags: Debate, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- DVDO unleashes Edge high-definition video processor/input hub
- Home theater fans who aren't satisfied with their HDTVs' built-in video processing and/or just can't get enough HDMI ports into their setups may want to take a gander at DVDO's new Edge, which combines technology from Anchor Bay to improve video quality while also doubling as...
- Tags: HDMI, Video, DVDO, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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