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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

News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Wireless And Mobility, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Mobile Applications, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model

I have to admit that I am blown away by a judge's decision to grant a preliminary injunction on sales of RealDVD, RealNetworks' controversial software that allows consumers to rip DVD movies into a computer much the same way that CDs can be ripped. Even though I...

Tags: Consumer, Software, RealDVD, Tools & Techniques, Digital Rights Management (DRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Management, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Docsvault Small Business Edition 3.5 (Windows)

Converting to a paperless office has never been easier or more affordable! With Docsvault, you now have all the tools to quickly scan your paper documents as searchable PDF files, import all digital files along with emails, centralize business data and enjoy the many benefits of a good document management...

Tags: Document, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Easy Data Access, Docsvault Small Business Edition, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-26

Database Configuration and Management for Meridian 1 and Communication Server 1000 Systems

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course you will learn how to use the Command Line Interface CLI to program and manage system and customer databases on a new Meridian 1 system to meet customer specifications. You will also learn how to add move change and...

Tags: Database, Phone, Server, Customer Database, Telecom & Utilities

Training 2009-05-01

eDiscovery Legal Minefield Migraines

With compliance discovery typically averaging out at a million US dollars per legal case, the whole area of retrieving all digital dialog around a dispute is the time and money sink that stresses IT staff and slows line of business technology adoption. Legal...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Electronically Stored Information, E-mail, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-28