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Major League Baseball makes news as latest DRM trainwreckPosted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on Nov 8, 2007 9:44 AM Subscribe Alerts12 comments: In another story that will go down in history as one of the more severe Digtal Rights Management trainwrecks (and a shining example of why DRM will ultimately do a...[Read the rest]

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Radiohead's DRM experiment: Numbers are rolling in from Radiohead's experimental approach to digital music sales, and at first glance, they might appear to be a repudiation of the model. That approach, of course,... [Read the rest]; Posted by John Carroll in John Carroll on: Nov 7, 2007 8:17 AM; 29 Comments
Radiohead and the search for content business models: The real problem here, I think, is that we have been relying upon artists to innovate new business models. Artists don't want to do business models. [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Nov 6, 2007 8:28 AM
Macrovision plugs gaping hole in DRM software: Macrovision has shipped a fix for a gaping hole in its SafeDisc (secdrv.sys) copy protection software, belatedly blocking an in-the-wild malware attack. [Read the rest]; Posted by Ryan Naraine in Zero Day on: Nov 5, 2007 5:24 PM
Macrovision patches patch-delivery tool, leaves DRM zero-day wide open: Macrovision today released a patch for a very severe vulnerability in the FLEXnet Connect (InstallShield) patch-delivery offering but there's still no word on a fix for a zero-day attack vector... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ryan Naraine in Zero Day on: Oct 31, 2007 1:36 PM
Blu-ray BD+ copy protection defeated?: Has the Blu-ray BD+ copy protection mechanism been defeated? This press release by SlySoft seems to indicate that it has: AnyDVD goes AACS MKBv4 SlySoft was recently honoured by AACS-LA,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Oct 30, 2007 4:08 PM
Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free music: Just over a year ago when hacker “Viodentia" wrote FairUse4WM and broke Microsoft's Windows Media DRM scheme wide open, Microsoft responded with record urgency in a mere 3 days. But... [Read the rest]; Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Oct 27, 2007 7:51 PM; 17 Comments
The RIAA versus us: a file-sharing standoff: After reading through hundreds of comments to last week's digital media ethics poll, I've come to the realization that my readers are much more rational and reasonable than the entertainment... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Oct 19, 2007 8:25 AM; 197 Comments
When is it OK to copy digital media?: The response to the digital media ethics poll I posted earlier this week has been overwhelming. Based on these results, thne RIAA and its allies are clearly losing the battle... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Oct 12, 2007 4:43 PM; 110 Comments
Where do you stand on digital media ethics?: Help me wrestle with some ethical questions related to digital media. We can all agree that it's easy to make perfect copies of digital media, and that there's no such... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Oct 9, 2007 11:02 AM; 347 Comments
Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2): Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media, especially high-definition content. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Sep 18, 2007 10:44 AM; 172 Comments
Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1): Self-described "professional paranoid" Peter Gutmann of the University of Auckland has become the most widely quoted source of information on DRM and content protection in Windows Vista. The trouble is,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Sep 16, 2007 4:29 PM; 372 Comments
Microsoft awarded patent for watermarking form of DRM. But can it really work?: According to InfoWorld: Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is distributed without... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Sep 11, 2007 6:24 PM; 51 Comments
More on HD, DRM, and CPU usage: I've been reporting my experiences with Windows Vista and playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. Several commenters have expressed skepticism over my contention that Windows Vista's DRM didn't come... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Sep 8, 2007 3:53 PM; 36 Comments
A Blu-ray / HD DVD update: I have a stack of shiny high-def discs, a Windows Vista PC, and a new combo drive that plays both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Here's how I went from... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Bott in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on: Sep 6, 2007 3:13 PM; 83 Comments
Gutmann Vista DRM paper uses shoddy Web Forums as source: Computer scientist Peter Gutmann made a name for himself when he published his paper “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” and got worldwide attention for outlining some serious... [Read the rest]; Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Sep 1, 2007 6:14 PM; 125 Comments
Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?: I was just going through the slides from Joanna Rutkowska's Black Hat talk (127-page .ppt file) and discovered that there's another unpatched driver flaw that exposes Windows Vista to kernel... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ryan Naraine in Zero Day on: Aug 21, 2007 1:21 PM
Wal-Mart hops on anti-DRM bandwagon: Wal-Mart is going DRM free too. Wal-Mart said in a statement that it will offer DRM-free music for 94 cents a track from record labels such as Universal and EMI... [Read the rest]; Posted by Larry Dignan in Between the Lines on: Aug 21, 2007 5:33 AM
Flash and DRM: Andy Plesser, who has been on a tear lately, has an interview up with Chris Hock on Adobe's digital media team about Flash and DRM. DRM is something that I... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ryan Stewart in The Universal Desktop on: Aug 20, 2007 7:35 AM
Why watermarking is a bigger devil than DRM: There's been much news lately about the record industry getting ready to give up on DRM. DRM (Digital Rights Management or some call it Digital Restrictions Management) is a form... [Read the rest]; Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Aug 20, 2007 2:20 AM; 297 Comments
"Baked-in" DRM - Yet another reason for people to hate Microsoft: Newsflash – There’s a growing segment of computer users that hate Microsoft. “Baked-in” DRM is giving more users a reason to hate Microsoft. [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Aug 20, 2007 2:05 AM
Claim that Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked!: Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source Update 8/30/2007 - Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ Update 8/16/2007 - Gutmann... [Read the rest]; Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Aug 13, 2007 5:25 AM; 228 Comments
DRM: The hearse is right on schedule: Universal Music Group on Friday said that it will sell "thousands of its albums and tracks" without DRM for a limited time. Universal said in a statement that its... [Read the rest]; Posted by Larry Dignan in Between the Lines on: Aug 10, 2007 8:58 AM
FairUse4WM breaks Microsoft DRM again: A hacker "Divine Tao" has released a newer version of FairUse4WM that appears to have ripped Windows Media DRM wide open. It is interesting to note that "Divine Tao" is... [Read the rest]; Posted by George Ou in Real World IT on: Jul 17, 2007 5:00 AM; 71 Comments
DRM and open source are the great divide: Rather than asking whether DRM is moral, legal, good or bad, what if we could find a DRM-free business model which spun money for content producers at least as well... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Jul 16, 2007 10:43 AM
Fair Use: According to an article over on Ars Technica, today is the 3rd annual Fair Use Day. On the project website for the event, advocates celebrated EMI's dropping of DRM from... [Read the rest]; Posted by John Carroll in John Carroll on: Jul 11, 2007 10:21 AM; 17 Comments
The iPhone might never be free of AT&T: I've been taking a look around the web at the efforts by hackers to free the iPhone from the AT&T shackles so that it could be used as an iPod... [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Jul 5, 2007 5:16 AM
The battle for the living room platform: Nintendo announced yesterday WiiWare, a program which will enable developers to create games that can be downloaded to the Wii console. Such games can be sold through the Wii Shop... [Read the rest]; Posted by John Carroll in John Carroll on: Jun 28, 2007 9:58 AM; 3 Comments
Is EMI the chink in the RIAA armor?: Does anyone really believe the RIAA when they tell us that 'the sky is falling' from rampant piracy? Just last year, the recording industry, was trying to strong-arm Apple into... [Read the rest]; Posted by Marc Wagner in ZDNet Education on: Jun 4, 2007 10:17 PM
iTunes Plus - Getting more than you bargained for!: Following article on Wired and The Unofficial Apple Weblog, debate is raging as to whether it is right that Apple incorporates user’s iTunes user name into tracks (specifically, the DRM-free... [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Jun 4, 2007 8:53 AM
iTunes Plus tracks contain user info: People that were hoping to be able to freely trade iTunes' new DRM-free tracks from EMI will be in for a surprise – the tracks are embedded with your iTunes... [Read the rest]; Posted by Jason D. O'Grady in The Apple Core on: Jun 4, 2007 5:50 AM