Valve's Gabe Newell has joined the growing roster of games industry names who are publicly unimpressed with Digital Rights Management. In an email to a fan who had contacted Valve about fears that...

Uh-oh. A lot of gamers are going to be unhappy about this. It seems Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC will be outfitted with DRM , specifically SecuROM, which recently made news just a bit ago when it was discovered it was included in the Spore title. While companies have a right to protect ...

Most readers of this blog are opposed to DRM. But publishers continue to be enamored of it, and continue to say that if you really are a legitimate customer, doing nothing wrong, you shouldn’t even notice it, so why should you care? Well, publishers have it wrong. They clearly have no ...

p2pnet news view P2P | DRM:- On top of its other woes, Apple has been severely criticised by the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann for its Mini DisplayPort, MDP for short. But MDP = DRM and, “Once again, thanks to DRM, a new product ends up less useful than the one it replaces ,” ...

Several readers have noticed that music from different studios have started appearing in iTunes with a DRM free option. This would seem to confirm rumors that Apple is in late stage negotiations with studios about launching more DRM free music.