OpenID14 items tagged “drm”
Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context. Fantastic presentation from Ian Rogers, the head of Yahoo! Music, who has spent 8 years watching DRM cripple the online music industry. 
8th October 2007, 9:10 pm
DRM-free MP3 downloads from Amazon. The good: they have what looks like the entire Universal and EMI catalogues in DRM-free 256bit MP3s. The bad: you need a US billing address! So close... 
25th September 2007, 4:30 pm
Amazon guide to ripping your CDs. “Many of our customers have already figured out that one cheap way to get DRM-free MP3 files is to buy them on CD and rip them themselves.” 
21st September 2007, 11:20 pm
By picking up its marbles and going home, Google just demonstrated how completely bizarre and anti-consumer DRM technology can be.
— Ken Fisher 14th August 2007, 12:41 pm
In an effort to improve all Google services, we will no longer offer the ability to buy or rent videos for download from Google Video [...] After August 15, 2007, you will no longer be able to view your purchased or rented videos.
— Google Video e-mail 11th August 2007, 8:33 am
HBO Exec Wants to Rename DRM. “... until recently nobody had complained that the term ’Digital Rights Management’ was insufficiently Orwellian.” 11th May 2007, 3:47 pm
There are some ideas that are broken, but attractive enough to some people that they are doomed to be tried again and again. DRM is one of them.
— Mark Shuttleworth 8th April 2007, 6:08 pm
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s “Thoughts on Music”. By John Gruber. 17th February 2007, 6:58 pm
Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ’Thoughts on Music’. John Gruber’s analysis. 7th February 2007, 1:34 pm
If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store.
— Steve Jobs 7th February 2007, 2:26 am
Thoughts on Music. Steve Jobs comes out against DRM, lays the blame squarely on the big four music companies. 7th February 2007, 2:25 am
Running the DRM Gauntlet. DRM war stories from the Songbird team. Windows Media and QuickTime both block debuggers in different ways. 6th February 2007, 12:55 am
AACS: Extracting and Using Keys. Another DRM system bites the dust, this time when it’s only just made it out of the gate. 10th January 2007, 11:05 pm
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection (via) Vista’s content protection is a nightmare for hardware manufacturers and consumers alike. It’s far worse than even BoingBoing readers would expect. 24th December 2006, 10:34 am
