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Libraries vs. DRM

February 3, 2006 – 3:15 pm

Within minutes of each other, two friends from separate corners of the world sent me a tip about the following:
Slashdot pointed to this BBC News that talks about the ill effects of DRM on libraries.
What’s DRM? It’s that ?digital rights management? component of some software and media that supposedly protects against illegal copying, but more [...]

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?I Hate DRM? And Other Projects To Preserve The Digital Artistic Commons

April 4, 2006 – 8:53 pm

People hate DRM. It prevents law abiding folks from enjoying the music and movies they’ve purchased, and it does little to prevent crackers from making illegal copies.

In response, somebody’s created I Hate DRM, ?a site dedicated to reclaiming consumer digital rights.?

And on the content creator’s side: Creative Remixes For The People.

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DRM = Customer Lock-In

August 15, 2005 – 7:25 am

Donna Wentworth is now saying what I’ve been saying for over a year now. Digital Rights Management (DRM) isn’t about preventing copyright violations by ne’er-do-wells, it’s about eliminating legal me2me fair use and locking in customers. In Your PC == A Toaster, Wentworth quotes Don Marti saying:
Isn’t it time to drop the polite fiction that [...]

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Former RIAA Head Hates DRM?

May 9, 2005 – 11:07 am

Today is sort of an anti-DRM day here, so it was some pleasure that I just saw Ernie Miller’s post at Copyfight regarding Hilary Rosen, the former head of the RIAA. She’s complaining about the DRM Apple uses with its music store and iPod. She says:
I spent 17 years in the music business the [...]

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Jenny’s DRM Scourge

July 19, 2005 – 7:20 pm

Jenny Levine, over at The Shifted Librarian, is telling the latest chapter in her long-running struggle with DRM.
Now, I?ve installed a lot of Windows software in my day, so I feel pretty confident in my ability to double-click on an installation file. However, when I try to install [Yahoo Music Engine], I get three screens [...]

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What?

June 6, 2005 – 8:03 pm

I’m not sure what to think about Steve J’s WWDC announcement (video stream) of Apple’s switch to x86 processors. Coverage at MacNN, Mac Rumors, Ars Technica, etc. I’m not sure, but it would be easier to take if I wasn’t the only one who saw conspiracy in it. Does this relate to Intel’s recent shoehorning [...]

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Hilary Rosen: Sock Puppet

May 11, 2005 – 11:18 am

We’re all talking about Hilary Rosen’s apparent about face, apparently pro-customer, anti-DRM essay now (props to David Rothman for taking the high road on this). In an update to his Monday post, however, Ernie Miller notes that the RIAA and Hilary Rosen’s history is that of blanket opposition to MP3 players (and fair use) in [...]

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DRM Snuffs The Constitution

July 4, 2004 – 1:22 pm

TeleRead brought me this story about a copy protected version of the US Constitution that’s now selling on Amazon. Among the restrictions: it can only be printed twice a year. For those who don’t understand the irony already, the US Constitution is in the public domain in so many ways it’s funny, yet a commercial [...]

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DRM: Bad For Customers, Bad For Publishers

August 5, 2005 – 5:22 am

The news came out last week that the biggest music consumers — the ones throwing down cash for music — are also the biggest music sharers. Alan Wexblat at Copyfight says simply: ?those who share, care? (BBC link via TeleRead).
Rather than taking legal action against downloaders, the music industry needs to entice them to use [...]

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Copyfight Friday

October 8, 2004 – 7:13 pm

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did another one of his monkey acts when he went ape about music and DRM.
Most people still steal music…We can build the technology but there are still ways for people to steal music.
The most common format of music on an iPod is ’stolen’.
It could just be a picture of what happens [...]

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EMI and Apple/iTunes To Offer DRM-Free Music Downloads

April 3, 2007 – 12:25 pm

Following Steve Jobs? ant-DRM post, people began to wonder if Apple was just pointing fingers or really willing to distribute DRM-free music via their online store. Yesterday we learned the answer.
Apple and EMI announced yesterday they would offer DRM-free 256bit AAC premium downloads, priced at $1.29 each.
Apple, DRM, DRM-free, EMI, ITMS, digital restrictions management, digital [...]

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iPod Hacks

December 30, 2004 – 9:06 pm

Hack-a-Day has just given me the best reason I’ve seen yet to take a closer look at iPod Linux: audio input without the cheap dohicky accessories and at up to 96KHz x 16bit. The five step instructions couldn’t be much simpler (well, it might be more complex once a person actually tries it, but the [...]

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Copyright War

March 31, 2004 – 2:43 am

Something doesn’t add up. ARIA, Australia’s version of our RIAA recently announced that sales continued to slide there this past year, while critics pointed out that they really had a record-breaking year with 50 million album sales. Thank ArsTechnica for the link. This matches news from the UK this past summer. So why is the [...]

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Broadcast Flag Smackdown

May 8, 2005 – 11:35 pm

The only thing that could have made Friday’s news sweeter would be to have received the DC Circuit Court of Appeals’ deciscion against the broadcast flag from the US Supreme Court instead. Still, it’s enough to get most of the IP-aware blogsphere excited. To wit: here, here, here, and everywhere else. Copyfight’s synopsis was the [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music, Music Stores, and DRM

February 7, 2007 – 12:16 am

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music is surprisingly open and frank, almost blog-like, for the man and the company especially know for keeping secrets.
Jobs is addressing complaints about Apple’s ?proprietary? DRM used in the iTunes Music Store.
There is no theory of protecting content other than keeping secrets. In other words, even if one uses the most [...]

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