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thedigitalist.net - 7/14/2009
DRM Is Not Evil
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At Pan Macmillan we are no great fans of DRM. For a while now we have been selling a limited range of titles DRM free from our website; these are titles where the authors have requested that we retail sans DRM. Many writers are in favour of this, and so we see as it [...]
moconews.net - 7/10/2009
@ Midem: Orange Plans DRM-Free Music Rentals, Still Talking To Nokia
— moconews.net — “Our intention definitely in 2008 is to drop DRM, so we can have a truly interoperable service... linked with network access”, music product development director Brenda O’Connell told mocoNews.net. Orange UK launched converged music downloads using ... (more) @ Midem: Orange Plans DRM-Free Music Rentals, Still ...

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softdiggs.com - 7/20/2009
Free remove DRM from iTunes M4P/M4V, protected WMA/WMV
— softdiggs.com — To turn DRM protected iTunes M4P, iTunes M4V, DRM protected WMA, WMV to DRM free, you just... need the digital music converter. It can convert M4P/M4V/WMA/WMV to MP3/MP4 files with ease and speed. (more) Free remove DRM from iTunes M4P/M4V, protected WMA/WMV

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arstechnica.com - 7/16/2009
Forced to connect: C&C 4 requires always-on Internet
— arstechnica.com — The issue of LAN play has become a hot-button issue for PC gamers ever since we found... out that StarCraft 2 will have no support for it . Be prepared for an even larger backlash against a well-known RTS franchise however, as EA has ... (more) Forced to connect: C&C 4 requires always-on Internet

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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home:  DRM is not evil - says the Digitalist

Boing Boing:  Amazon's Orwellian deletion of Kindle books

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DRM is not evil - says the Digitalist
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... The Digitalist is the blog of the digital team at Pan Macmillan and is always interesting to visit. Michael Bhaskar has published an excellent article with the title above. It’s one of the few times that a publisher has actually penned a thoughtful comment on this topic. Because I consider his post to be important, I’m going to reprint it here without any comments from me. I think he deserves to get his point across. I know that our readers will have their own comments later on. Commenceth: ...

Amazon's Orwellian deletion of Kindle books
Boing Boing — ... brick its devices as part of the preliminaries to a court case), or the feature will go haywire, or the management of Amazon will change. The most secure device spec for a device is one in which it is not designed to enforce policy against its owner, period. Devices might still be subverted into attacking their owners, but this will always be more likely to take place if the designers created a "feature" that is supposed to do this. Ironically, this came after a rollicking debate on ebook DRM on Pan Macmillan (UK)'s The Digitalist blog, wherein ...

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