DRM is nothing more than a “speed bump” according to Yahoo Music general manager David Goldberg. Every form of DRM will motivate Pirates to find a workaround, and the honest customers will pay the price.
Goldberg said this at the Digital Music Forum West conference in LA, and added that people who say that digital music [...]
Last week at the Digital Home Developers Conference Brad Hunt, the MPAA’s executive vice president and chief technology officer said that piracy is the inevitable outcome of the music and movie industries’ inability to provide a simple, inter-compatible and non-intrusive DRM solution.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) declared October 3rd to be Anti-DRM day. Spread the word!
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What is DRM?
Defective by Design
BitTorrent Inc. is opening it’s online media store within a couple of months. Although they will use DRM (digital rights management) in the early stages, they predict that add supported content will eventually win from DRM, not only in BitTorrent’s store
Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent told IDG News Service:
The bottom line is that [...]
The Big Four record labels will do anything, anything, rather than work up front with their customers and with the independent innovators who are, so far, wholly and solely responsible for turning p2p into the primary communications and distribution media for the digital 21st century.
They’d rather sue them. But enormous and continuing opposition from the [...]
AOL efforts to offset losses expected following its decision to drop subscription fees for some high-speed customers mean it, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will team up.
Buffy is among movies and TV shows AOL hopes to peddle for between $10 and $20 each through its new video site.
“The offerings also mark the latest experiments in [...]
Charlie’s back! with the second episode of our weekly podcast.
Welcome to TorrentPod, the official podcast of TorrentFreak.com. Join your host Charlie as he delves into this weeks latest news, and talks about Copyright Law.
Enjoy, and feel free to leave a (audio) comment if you have something to say to Charlie, or if you want to [...]
Canada may be facing its own DMCA according to Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. And, “given the strength of the copyright lobby, we may need protection from the next copyright bill,” he says.
With that in mind, tomorrow Giest launches 30 Days of DRM page and [...]
It’s been almost one year since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the MGM v Grokster case, determining that Grokster and Streamcast can be held legally liable for what it calls “inducing” copyright infringement by users if they market their filesharing programs “with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright.”
Although [...]
