eff.org - 3/20/2009
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Digital Rights Management and Copy Protection Schemes Major entertainment companies are using "digital rights management," or DRM (aka content or copy protection), to lock up your digital media. These DRM technologies do nothing to stop copyright pirates, but instead end up interfering with ...
arstechnica.com - 3/25/2009
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arstechnica.com —
Tuesday at GDC Microsoft announced a number of
upcoming additions to Games for Windows, including stronger protection...
against piracy, as well as some nifty features to make playing your PC games simpler if you have multiple systems. There ...
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Don't call it DRM: Microsoft explains new gaming piracy tech
arstechnica.com - 3/25/2009
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arstechnica.com —
The Federal Trade Commission kicked off its big
DRM conference in Seattle Wednesday morning by saying that...
the goal was not to "take sides" over the question of whether DRM is good or bad—but the conference nevertheless opened with ...
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FTC: We'll "come calling" about deceptive DRM
ftc.gov - 3/25/2009
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ftc.gov —
FILING A COMMENT Deadline: February 13, 2009 Any
person also may submit written comments on the topics...
to be addressed at the Town Hall. Comments should refer to "DRM Town Hall Comment, Project No. P094502. to facilitate the organization of ...
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2009 FTC Workshop: Digital rights management
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Region woes hose Obama gift to UK prime minister
Betanews —
... , his player returned a wrong-region message and would go no further. It's an embarrassment, atop the original fuss made when the gift was contrasted with Mr. Brown's thoughtful and historically rich gift to Mr. Obama. On the bright side, wouldn't it be something if an incident like this one clarified thinking on certain long-deplored aspects of digital rights management? Or at the very least, caused Vice-President Biden to have to explain why he thinks DRM is a reasonable ...
MP3 + DRM = slotRadio
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... . The concept is going to beguile some and infuriate others: slotRadio relies on microSD cards preloaded with 1,000 songs costing a mere 4 cents each, but the cards use DRM to prevent the songs from being copied or played on demand. It's like a set of commercial-free radio stations, except it sounds better and works in tunnels. Before you go all EFF on me about the DRM, bear in mind that it isn't being used to crimp ...
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