www.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 largely dead for streaming .
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Apple Still A Big Fan Of DRM Outside Of Music
Techdirt —
A Skeptical Cynic among our readers points us to a post over on the EFF's blog about how Apple is still a huge supporter of DRM, despite getting the record labels to ...
The EFF on Apple DRM CRAP
p2pnet news —
... Apple’s No More DRM announcement, “comes nearly a year after Amazon.com’s DRM-free MP3 deals went live, demonstrating that the record labels were holding the DRM card until they could wring business concessions from Apple (in the form of variable pricing),” says Richard Esguerra in the EFF’s Deep Links, going on »»» ...
DRM Still Strong With Apple, Just Different [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... In case you forgot, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has a nice list of examples of why Apple’s still very much in the DRM game, even if it has relaxed a bit in the music department. Among the most suspect uses: the ...
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O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... Apple Show Us DRM's True Colors - the EFF checks out where Apple has DRM in its products and discovers that in most cases it has little to do with piracy and more about eliminating legitimate competition. DRM is " ...
Coming? DRM-adapted eyeballs—or at least eyeglasses? Hypocritical Steve Jobs would love the idea for e-books if you go by the new iPod Shuffle
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... "Even as it attacks DRM on music, Apple is continuing to add more DRM to its own hardware (we recently documented all of Apple’s various hardware DRM restrictions). The latest example is the new ...
Apple's new G3 Shuffle creates minor controversy
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... The EFF recently published a list of cases where Apple is using DRM, which, it says, "is almost always about eliminating legitimate competition, hobbling interoperability, and creating de facto technology monopolies": ...
Apple Suicide: Obsessive Control
Today @ PC World —
... this rumor has been mild surprise. Some have argued this policy has been good for Apple financially and may lead to higher quality headphones from third-party vendors. However, I have to say, if the rumor is true then this is a horrible path for Apple to tread. By forcing consumers to constantly buy something as commonplace as headphones every time a new feature is added will only serve to upset the public and distance Apple from its dedicated base of consumers. More troubling is a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that suggests Apple may be embracing the ...
No DRM on eyeballs yet—or on the iPod Shuffle’s headphones
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... To be fair, Apple does still use DRM (or protection measures that might also fall under the DMCA) in a lot of places. But we who oppose DRM should also remember that crying “wolf”—and then having to eat our words—does not help us. It does not make us appear calm and rational, or cast a positive light on our legitimate objections to the spread of DRM. It makes us look, in short, like people who “just like being self-righteous on the web.” ...
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DRM = Doesn't Really Matter
www.louisgray.com 1/6/2009 — If one of the biggest items to be delivered at tomorrow's MacWorld Expo is the elimination of DRM from songs on the iTunes store, as is rumored , then we are on the brink of the biggest snoozefests in technology event history. Forget that Mr. Steve ...
If one of the biggest items to be delivered at tomorrow's MacWorld Expo is the elimination of DRM from songs on the iTunes store, as is rumored , then we are on the brink of the biggest snoozefests in technology event history. Forget that Mr. Steve ...
Apple kills off DRM
blogs.computerworld.com 1/7/2009 — Please, please let this ground-breaking move by Apple be the beginning of the end for all digital rights management.
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Please, please let this ground-breaking move by Apple be the beginning of the end for all digital rights management.
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Apple criticized for iPod shuffle's new 'authentication chip'
www.appleinsider.com 3/17/2009 — Apple this weekend was hit with a media assault after reports suggested that a mysterious authentication chip in the third-generation iPod shuffle, responsible for supporting the player's new headphone-integrated playback controls, signaled a rogue ...
Apple this weekend was hit with a media assault after reports suggested that a mysterious authentication chip in the third-generation iPod shuffle, responsible for supporting the player's new headphone-integrated playback controls, signaled a rogue ...
iTunes Music Store Finally Drops DRM, Adds New Prices
blog.wired.com 1/7/2009 —
After years of fits, starts, threats and ultimatums Steve Jobs and three major labels have come to terms on a deal that will immediately make music available on iTunes without the digital rights management that limits music playback to Apple ...
After years of fits, starts, threats and ultimatums Steve Jobs and three major labels have come to terms on a deal that will immediately make music available on iTunes without the digital rights management that limits music playback to Apple ...
Is iTunes Going DRM-Free?
mashable.com 12/9/2008 — AppleInsider just published a tip they picked up from French technology site ElctronLibre that “asserts that it’s now “clear” Apple will spark new interest in its music store by removing DRM from tracks published by Sony, ...
AppleInsider just published a tip they picked up from French technology site ElctronLibre that “asserts that it’s now “clear” Apple will spark new interest in its music store by removing DRM from tracks published by Sony, ...
DRM In Retreat
freedom-to-tinker.com 1/28/2009 — Last week's agreement between Apple and the major record companies to eliminate DRM (copy protection) in iTunes songs marks the effective end of DRM for recorded music. The major online music stores are now all DRM-free, and CDs still lack DRM, so ...
Last week's agreement between Apple and the major record companies to eliminate DRM (copy protection) in iTunes songs marks the effective end of DRM for recorded music. The major online music stores are now all DRM-free, and CDs still lack DRM, so ...
Macworld 2009: iTunes now DRM-free, iPhone music purchases over 3G network are a go
www.tgdaily.com 1/7/2009 — Remember last year when EMI was the only big music label that
offered its music on Apple's iTunes free from the dreaded digital rights
management (DRM)? It now appears that the remaining three labels have
given up trying to build an iTunes rival. ...
Remember last year when EMI was the only big music label that
offered its music on Apple's iTunes free from the dreaded digital rights
management (DRM)? It now appears that the remaining three labels have
given up trying to build an iTunes rival. ...
Apple dropping DRM from music in iTunes, keeping DRM for audiobooks, video
www.boingboing.net 1/9/2009 — Looks like Apple's going to drop the DRM on the music in the iTunes store -- but there's no indication that the DRM that's too evil to be borne for music will be likewise dropped from audiobooks and video. Right now, Apple will only sell audiobooks ...
Looks like Apple's going to drop the DRM on the music in the iTunes store -- but there's no indication that the DRM that's too evil to be borne for music will be likewise dropped from audiobooks and video. Right now, Apple will only sell audiobooks ...
iTunes finally goes DRM-free … done anyone really care?
blogs.zdnet.com 1/7/2009 — News from the Macworld Expo - iTunes is in the final stages of shedding DRM, offering some eight million of its 10 million songs in Apple’s iTunes Plus DRM-free format. But does anyone care? Is there anyone who is still concerned about DRM buying ...
News from the Macworld Expo - iTunes is in the final stages of shedding DRM, offering some eight million of its 10 million songs in Apple’s iTunes Plus DRM-free format. But does anyone care? Is there anyone who is still concerned about DRM buying ...
French Screenshot Shows DRM-Free Music in iTunes
blog.wired.com 12/15/2008 — Nearly a week after rumors swirled about three major labels letting iTunes to sell music without digital rights management comes evidence of additional experimentation by Apple with DRM-free music -- in France.
In an echo of last month's ...
Nearly a week after rumors swirled about three major labels letting iTunes to sell music without digital rights management comes evidence of additional experimentation by Apple with DRM-free music -- in France.
In an echo of last month's ...
Venture capitalist says U.S. losing green race —
SFGate: Technology 1/8/2009
Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, whose early investments helped launch Google and Amazon, delivered a stark warning to Congress on Wednesday that the United States is on the verge of being left behind in the green tech revolution. Doerr, ...
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