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arstechnica.com - 5/28/2009

Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all

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It's a well-known story by now: Europe, the US, and plenty of other countries have made it generally illegal to circumvent DRM, even when users want to do something legal with the content. Sure, it sounds bad and Ars complains about it all the time, but come on—do ...

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theregister.co.uk - 5/30/2009

Sims 3 pirated 180,000 times in three days • The Register

— theregister.co.uk — So much for Electronic Arts' open palm approach to video game piracy. The game maker nixed its... draconic digital rights management (DRM) for The Sims 3 , and the game's already on track to being pirated more often than Spore — counted as the most ... (more) Sims 3 pirated 180,000 times in three days • The Register

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 5/29/2009

Watermarks, a friendlier DRM?

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — The Digital Watermarking Alliance , a group that encourages content owners to embed unique identifiers in media... as a way to combat piracy and promote new distribution models online, released a study this morning on the prevalence of illegal ... (more) Watermarks, a friendlier DRM?

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arstechnica.com - 6/3/2009

Study: P2P customers are Hollywood's best friends—really!

— arstechnica.com — Vuze, maker of one of the most popular BitTorrent clients (formerly named Azureus), hoped to dispel the... myth that peer-to-peer users are poor, freeloading, antisocial misfits, so it commissioned a survey into the demographic makeup of ... (more) Study: P2P customers are Hollywood's best ...

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Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates
Boing Boing — ... to put together clip compilations under UK law, still can't (legally) bypass the CSS encryption on DVDs. Lecturers who don't know how to bypass the DRM are faced with an unappealing choice: those "unable to extract a clip from a commercial DVD lodged in their library collection are forced to tailor the content of their lectures to the VHS materials at their disposal. They contend that this happens frequently, given that most commercial DVDs are DRM protected." Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all

Study finds DRM makes ‘pirates’ of ordinary people
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... Hardly news to the rest of us, I know, but Ars Technica has a great piece looking at a study by a Cambridge law professor. Patricia Akester spent several years conducting many interviews with people who have been affected by DRM and anticircumvention laws. ...

Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity
CrunchGear — ... We’re all pirates because of DRM. That’s the conclusion of a new UK study—and it’s a long one, coming in at 200+ pages—. The idea here is that the DRM schemes imposed by rights owners do just as good a job at restricting people who have legitimate claims to the material as it does restricting those without any claim at all. ...

UK study claims DRM encourages piracy
TechSpot — Depending on your perspective, DRM is a necessary evil, an unnecessary annoyance or the last bastion of hope for modern software development. Regardless of which way you view it, whether or not it actually accomplishes what it intends to is debatable. It is precisely this question which has led to a study in the UK on DRM, with the goal of determining the effectiveness of these anti-counterfeiting measures. DRM doesn't come cheap, so developers likely want some assurance that the headaches and ...

Study Says DRM Pushes Users To Illegal Downloads
Techdirt — A new study from a Cambridge law professor says that DRM doesn't stop piracy, but rather prompts users to illegally download DRM-free pirated content (via ...

New Study: DRM Incites Piracy
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... That's exactly what DRM is doing, according to the first empirical study of its kind in the UK. In a new paper titled, "Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM: the first empirical assessment." Cambridge law professor Patricia Akester says she spent the last several years interviewing lecturers, end users, government officials, rights holders, and DRM developers to see what affect DRM was actually having. ...

Vid-Biz: Web Vid Devices, DRM, Crackle
NewTeeVee — ... Study: DRM Drives People to Piracy; research shows that people get fed up with the heavy restrictions on content and find it elsewhere. (Ars Technica) ...