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The Sad State of DRM Today
I've got two different DRM stories for you to read today. The first is more dangerous than the second, but the second is more annoying because it affects iTunes and the iPod. Both, as far as I can tell, only affect Windows users. But we should all be ...
Sony's DRM now for Macs too
Looks like Sony's DRM rootkit, loved by all, has been ported to the Mac. Sort of. Seems Sony has put a little installer which, upon entering your username and password, will happily install a couple of kernel extensions into your OS. Remember the ...
DRM is Evil: An Opinion on iTMS’s DRM
Digital Rights Management is somewhat
oxymoronic (and very moronic, imho), as it doesn’t protect anyone’s rights. My rights are not protected
by DRM. Your rights are not protected by DRM. DRM is supposed to protect the ...
Sony and Apple sitting in a tree...
K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
Well, now that I've gone and embedded that childhood song in your heads for the rest of the day, I thought I'd distract your growing anger with me with a quick redirect to the current juicy bit of gossip goodness floating ...
RIAA's president praises Sony's "responsible" tactics
As if Sony couldn't make this DRM rootkit situation come off as any worse in the public eye, the president of the RIAA has piled it on by attempting to reduce the impact of the rootkit to nothing more than "a security vulnerability of which they ...
Sony DRM rootkit time-line recap, EFF calls for repairs
We've been following following the unsettling Sony DRM rootkit issue here at TUAW, but BoingBoing has really been following it, in part because one of their bloggers (Cory Doctorow) is kinda with the EFF, and if you at all value your digital privacy, ...
Transgaming to use SecuROM for Cider games
As if Mac gaming needed more problems getting off the ground. Transgaming has proudly announced that in the future, their games will include Sony's SecuROM digital rights management software. They don't mention which games will be getting the ...
Apple issues C&D takedown order to Hymn project software
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/software/DRM_Stripping_Requiem_Project_Attacked_by_Apple_Lawyer_Bots'; Wow. Good thing that DoubleTwist is waiting in the OS X wings for anyone who wants to rip DRM from their iTunes purchases. Apple just issued a ...
Is a Microsoft/EMI deal on the horizon?
Now that Apple has penned a deal to open up EMI songs, will Microsoft be next? The Times Online writes that Microsoft has hinted that it may follow the Apple model and sell EMI songs at Zune Marketplace without DRM. No deals are signed or announced ...
EMI DRM free tracks on iTunes: Pricing, and upgrading
As Dave posted, EMI is offering their entire catalog of music sans DRM. This is a great move for customers. Many people commented last night that it isn't the DRM that bothers them with iTunes downloads, but rather the lower bitrate of the songs. It ...
Remove iTunes DRM easily and quickly with iMovie HD
The thing about DRM is that there are always exceptions to the rules-- while Apple has released lots of DRM-free music, lots of it is still bogged down by DRM, and if you're like me, you disagree that any music you purchase should be limited in the ...
Apple and the future of DRM
Over at the Guardian there's an interesting article on How Apple is Changing DRM. While there's not a lot that's new here, it does usefully cover what has happened over the last few years with Digital Rights Management and how DRM has basically come ...
Breaking the Law: Stripping DRM from iTMS-purchased songs
I haven't raised everyone's ire with an anti-DRM rant in a while, so I thought I'd share this bit. Here's the warning: according to the DMCA circumventing the DRM in your iTMS tracks is illegal; however, as the DRM contravenes existing fair use laws ...
DVD Jon responds to Steve's DRM letter
DVD Jon, the man supposedly behind DeCSS and advocate for circumventing DRM, has responded to Steve Jobs' open letter on DRM in three posts on his blog. In his replies, Johansen notes that some customers are more locked into the iPod based on whether ...
EMI sees boost in sales thanks to iTunes Plus
Macworld UK reports that EMI is seeing an uptick in purchases from iTunes since iTunes Plus was introduced. For instance, sales of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon [iTunes Link] have increased 350% (we all know hippies don't like DRM. I kid, I ...
