electricpig.co.uk - 12/11/2008
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Uh-oh. Nokia isn’t going to like this. Its all-you-can-eat Comes With Music service is now open to piracy from pesky hackers, able to strip downloaded songs of their precious DRM, all for just a few quid. It seems Comes With Music ’s Microsoft-powered Digital Rights Management coding can ...
reuters.com - 12/12/2008
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reuters.com —
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker
Nokia plans to tap the surging market for connecting...
laptops to wireless networks taking on market leader Huawei Technologies, its senior official said. Nokia will start to ship its first Internet ...
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Nokia takes on Huawei in connecting laptops
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news.cnet.com - 12/9/2008
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news.cnet.com —
Rumors coming out of Europe that claim Apple
will begin offering unprotected music files from the three...
largest recording companies on Tuesday are bogus, according to my music-industry sources. Yes, Apple is in negotiations with the three ...
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Don't hold your breath for DRM-free iTunes news
boygeniusreport.com - 12/8/2008
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boygeniusreport.com —
This past Friday, a slide from Nokia’s Capital
Markets Day appeared on the internet depicting a touchscreen-only...
Nokia handset with a striking UI. Sure the slide looked a bit iffy and the wording of the accompanying notes isn’t your ...
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Slide of mysterious touchscreen Nokia device proven ...
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Tunebite lets you enjoy Nokia's Comes with Music service, DRM-free
Engadget —
... of Tunebite is out, and among its many features is the ability to make unprotected dupes of tracks downloaded from Nokia's Comes With Music service. This isn't the "crack" everyone's talking about -- there's nothing new about software that records protected audio off the sound card -- but this package does so at speeds of up to 54x. Not bad, eh? But please, don't use it. Kanye needs our money if he's going to keep scarfing up all those awesome gadgets. [Via Electricpig] ...
Tunebite lets you enjoy Nokia's Comes with Music service, DRM-free
Engadget Mobile —
... of Tunebite is out, and among its many features is the ability to make unprotected dupes of tracks downloaded from Nokia's Comes With Music service. This isn't the "crack" everyone's talking about -- there's nothing new about software that records protected audio off the sound card -- but this package does so at speeds of up to 54x. Not bad, eh? But please, don't use it. Kanye needs our money if he's going to keep scarfing up all those awesome gadgets. [Via Electricpig] ...
Nokia Comes With Music Service DRM "Cracked"?
mocoNews —
... Has Nokia's Comes With Music service been cracked? News has surfaced that there's a way to break open the WMA DRM-protected unlimited tracks available on Nokia's 5310 XpressMusic and N95. But it's not so much a hack as a way around it. According to Electricpig.co.uk, there's a new version of some software called Tunebit which basically plays the track at a certain speed and re-records it into a non-encrypted file. The software, which sells for £18, or can be downloaded for free from Bit Torrent (naturally), does this at lighting speed, or 54 times the ...
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And here Nokia thought it had a good thing going with its subscription-based music service, “ Comes with Music .” Don’t people already know by now that DRM just ain’t exactly what the doctor ordered?
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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, ...
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updates.zdnet.com 12/9/2008 — ZDNet Resources British support 70-year copyright terms The British Government has yielded to European pressure to extend copyright for recorded music , MusicWeek reports. Culture secretary Andy Burnham made a surprise announcement in favor of a ...
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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Nokia looking to make its Nokia Music Store DRM-free
MobileBurn.com 3/3/2009 — At the Nokia Music Store and Comes With Music launch in Singapore, a Nokia executive reportedly stated that Nokia is currently in talks to make its music library available without DRM protection.
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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 ...
DRM = Doesn't Really Matter
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 ...
SkyFire beta goes public —
The Register 12/9/2008
Mobile browser war opens new front Skyfire, the mobile browser for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile devices, has broadened its beta testing to include the UK and no longer requires users to register with the service.…
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