This Report provides the results of our study of digital rights management (DRM) technologies in use in the Canadian marketplace and their implications for consumer privacy. We have defined “DRM” in this Report to mean “a system, comprising techn
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which
When CD sales finally tank completely, record labels will be faced with a tough decision: distributing music nearly exclusively through Apple's iTunes store or rethinking their approach to digital-rights management, or DRM, from the ground up.
BoingBoing has heard1: the Apple TV does not include HDCP2 (High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection), the copy protection hardware paired with digital video and audio inputs and outputs in an attempt to thwart the unauthorized duplication of high definitio
Won't selling songs as unprotected MP3s lead to rampant illegal copying? No. Because there's already rampant illegal copying. Most unauthorized copying is done either through online file-sharing networks or by burning CDs for friends.
It is impossible to fully protect digital TV content from being copied - although many have tried. DRM is best effort by it's very nature and the defence side of an ongoing arms raise between the rights holders and the pirates.Most people who infringe cop
1. content consumption on general purpose computers (allowing DRM content to be hacked), 2. the ability to create perfect digital copies and 3. the ease of online distribution. possession of digital content (or a copy of it) has no inherent value, but tha
Die Franzosen haben ein Gesetz verabschiedet, dass aussagt: DRM darf nicht den Zugang zu legal erworbenen Gütern einschränken oder verhindern. z.B: jemand hat 10 Rechner dann darf er die Musik auch auf diesen abspielen.
