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tgdaily.com - 1/14/2009
A world free from DRM, copyrights and patents
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What would it be like to wake up tomorrow and have the ability to take everything that exists and recreate it as needed absolutely free from royalty or limitation? If people and companies could copy anything in existence, rolling it into whatever product they can design, and then attempt to sell ...
iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know
crave.cnet.co.uk - 1/13/2009
iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know
— crave.cnet.co.uk — Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free , and will be entirely DRM-free from spring. This means... files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple. What better way to celebrate the final bullet to the living ... (more) iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know

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eff.org - 1/9/2009
Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors
— eff.org — At this week's Macworld Expo, Apple announced that by April, music from the iTunes Store will no... longer be shackled by digital rights management (DRM). Finally, DRM is good and fully dead for digital music -- gone from CDs, gone from downloads, and ... (more) Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors

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secure.commentworks.com - 1/7/2009
Federal Trade Commission - Comment Form
— secure.commentworks.com — Title: Notice and Request for Public Comments Subject Category: FTC Town Hall to Address Digital Rights Management... Technologies - Event Takes Place Wednesday, March 25, 2009, in Seattle Published: To Be Added Comments Due: January 30, 2009 How To ... (more) Federal Trade Commission - Comment Form

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Imagine a world with no DRM
p2pnet news — p2pnet news view | DRM:- No DRM.  No Copyrights.  No Patents. Would it be possible to survive in such a world? Nahhhh. Ask Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG, or Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, or any of the big software or gamnes companies. They’ll tell you. But what if …. ? In a Reader’s Write, DRM Koolaid links to Rick C. Hodgin’s TG Daily post which wonders »»» If people and companies ...

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