latimesblogs.latimes.com - 5/29/2009
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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 downloading and the motives behind it. (Download the ...
arstechnica.com - 5/28/2009
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arstechnica.com —
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 ...
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Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
macrumors.com - 6/1/2009
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macrumors.com —
The iPhone Blog reports that in the iPhone
3.0 beta firmware, users are being told that may...
not re-download applications over-the-air without being charged. The dialog box (shown above), however, does indicate that users may still re-downlo...
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Apple to Start Charging for Re-Downloading Apps ...
law.cam.ac.uk - 5/28/2009
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law.cam.ac.uk —
Patricia Akester (PhD) was awarded a Leverhulme Early
Career Research Fellowship (in association with matched funding from...
Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) to undertake a project looking at the impact of technological measures on the ability ...
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Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom ...
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... · Op-Ed writer Jon Healey detours to the site's tech blog to opine on a new study from the Digital Watermarking Alliance, which presents a case for watermarking as an alternative to DRM technology. That's a dubious tech proposition for various reasons, but Healey cites some interesting stats and links to the report itself if you're curious. ...
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