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- Navio's approach to C.R.A.P. (DRM) doesn't stink as much as others
- Navio's approach to C.R.A.P. DRM doesn't stink as much as othersNavio is the future... I've been saying it for years. It never made sense for me to have to buy CD's when I had already bought records, or tapes, or even 8-tracks.The problem with the content industries (and the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Navio, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-06-20
- Navio's approach to C.R.A.P. (DRM) doesn't stink as much as others
- Face it, digital rights management technology (aka: C.R.A.P. — also see CRAP, The Movie and CRAP, The Sequel) is nasty stuff. It's mainstream usage is only a couple of years old. But the list of DRM-caused trainwrecks in consumer-land (a list that you can easily help to...
- Tags: Navio, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Abundance of DRM trainwrecks make them worth tracking. You can help.
- Speaking of lists worth keeping, I'm going to start collecting examples of real-world DRM trainwrecks in hopes of better making the point that most people don't realize how much they're giving up when they consciously or sub-consciously use solutions that depend on it. I get a lot of email...
- Tags: digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-05-30
- Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike
- As I've written many many times, digital rights management technology (DRM, also known as C.R.A.P.: Read why or watch CRAP: The Movie) is nasty stuff that I'd just assume be without. In the course of trying to manage rights, the "R" in most DRM technologies now stands for...
- Tags: Navio, digital-rights management, entertainment
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
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- With DeCSS behind him, "DVD Jon" turns his attention to Apple's Fairplay
- With DeCSS behind him, "DVD Jon" turns his attention to Apple's FairplayPretty brilliantI love the subersiveness of this idea. Instead of being sued for breaking DRM, you're actually spreading DRM by breaking one company's hold on a particular system.From a practical standpoint, it would be hard to invest in...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., DVD-Jon, DeCSS
- Discussion threads 2006-10-23
- Summary of today's Apple announcements (no iPod phone)
- Summary of today's Apple announcements no iPod phoneMonopolyGive it a rest with the monopoly rhetoric already.One. You do not need iTMS to play music on an iPod.Two. You do not need iTMS to get music at all.Three. You do not need an iPod to play music purchased from iTMS.Four. You...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Games, Digital rights management (DRM), phone, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple iTunes, game, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- Summary of today's Apple announcements (no iPod phone)
- I'm sitting here in my home office in northern Massachusetts trying to find out what Steve Jobs is saying at his product roll-out taking place right now and my first choice of sites to visit was Engadget. But I'm apparently not the only one who thinks Engadget is going...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Jobs, Apple iTunes Music Store
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Amazon Unbox criticized for Internet chattiness (amongst other things)
- Last week, on the heels of Amazon's Unbox video download service launch, I did a little digging (didn't have to dig far) to find out what digital rights management platform it was relying on to make sure a the videos don't get pirated and b rentals (essentially downloads that...
- Tags: digital-rights management, Unbox
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
- Drive failure? Yagotta try Knoppix first
- There's nothing like spending the day indoors during New England's first hot sunny Saturday in 2006. But indoors is where I spent it trying to get some valuable data off what, for all intents and purposes, is a failed hard drive. Corrupted sectors from what I can...
- Tags: Knoppix Linux, hard drive
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Creative, Apple, and countersewage
- In its report Apple dumps more countersue-age on Creative, Ars Technica takes a more lighthearted approach to the legal battles between portable multimedia playback vendors Creative and Apple: If you enjoy legal dramas, it must have been tough the past couple weeks now that sweeps are over...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- Digital music finds some locker room
- Digital music finds some locker roomNot quite sure about this comment""If we can give you the right to have your music in whatever format you want, that's just a far better value proposition," Navio COO Ray Schaaf says. "How many people are going to buy the same thing four or...
- Tags: Digital media, StreamloadMediamax, digital music, locker room, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-05-29
- 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
- Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike
- Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alikeI believe it forbids circumventionNavio and Real didn't circumvent DRM. They added a flavor of it through their reverse engineering efforts.dbOWN?The new ammendments to the DMCA makes it illegal to *THINK* ABOUT OWNING!Wonder how they are going to enforce that...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Peer to peer (P2P), Digital media, reverse engineering, file-sharing, digital-rights management, DMCA, interoperability, computer program
- Discussion threads 2006-05-23
- Rights-based DRM
- The Digital Rights Management dilemma has become a headache for both the publishers and consumers of online music and video, and mobile content. Kevin Collins of Navio Systems introduces a new and simpler service-based approach to DRM that allows publishers to distribute rights to consumers.
- Tags: digital-rights management
- Whiteboards 2006-03-13
- Rights-based DRM
- The Digital Rights Management dilemma has become a headache for both the publishers and consumers of online music and video, and mobile content. Kevin Collins of Navio Systems introduces a new and simpler service-based approach to DRM that allows publishers to distribute rights to consumers.
- Tags: Digital-Rights Management Dilemma, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management
- Whiteboards 2006-03-13
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