Entries tagged with “drm” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

So I read in this article on Salon.com about SoundExchange's "deal" with Web broadcasters. After pushing internet radio to the brink of extinction, they now graciously extend their hand and offer salvation - for a price....

You've no doubt heard that EMI announced this past week that they'll be releasing higher quality DRM-free songs at a premium price per download, starting with a limited term exclusive on iTunes. There's a lot of buzz about the implications of this announcement. One important question is whether the other three major labels will follow suit (all the labels renew...

There's 3 three things that annoy me about DRM (well, to be honest, there's puh-lenty of things about DRM that annoy me, but let's stick with these for the moment): 1. This is how i feel about any technology designed to prevent savvy users from doing what they're going to do anyway: the more you tighten your grip, tarkin, the...

MP3.com just published an interesting article on optimizing the battery life of digital audio players. The article concluded that copy-protected Windows Media Audio tracks knocked several hours off the playback time on each tested player. Savvy readers then pointed out that because WMA is more highly compressed, it naturally requires more processor power to play back. A more conclusive experiment...

Those 30-second previews on digital music sites are frustrating. Here’s an elegant alternative that lets you “drop the needle” wherever you want. And there’s no annoying DRM copy-protection.

I've started blogging at siliconvalleywatcher.com specifically on the subject of digital video. This link goes to an excerpt from my book on digital rights management for internet video. It's written in the form of a movie script and is an extremely entertaining read.

Apple is rightfully concerned about Real's new Harmony product that acts as a translator between three major DRM formats: Fairplay, MS DRM and Real's Helix.

The labels want us to believe that we have to give up freedom to get music. EMusic shows that that's simply not true.

DRM in Microsoft WM9 SDK cracked using nothing but the vanilla WM9 API.

Cory's comments on Digital Restrictions Management in this morning's panel discussion puts DRM's social effects into perspective.

(Rep. Boucher begins the long battle) As terrorism and war begin to lose their grip over the legislative agenda in Washington, intellectual property battles about peer-to-peer file-sharing, digital rights management, the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other issues are poised to re-emerge, said prominent Capitol Hill power brokers during a symposium Wednesday.

In his Crypto-Gram today, Bruce Schneier writes that bits are inherently copyable. Trying to make them not so is like trying to make water not wet. "All digital copy protection schemes can be broken, and once they are, the breaks will be distributed...law or no law." Want to learn more about DRM? Read Lucas Gonze's DRM entry in the <decent> MemeBag.