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Consumer group calls for DRM safeguards
News The National Consumer Council has told MPs that companies are threatening civil liberties through their use of digital rights management, and called for legislation to regulate the use of DRM. In a submission to the parliamentary All Party...
[January 18, 2006, 13:00]
Industry still grappling with copy protection tech
News Plans to hard-wire copy protection into popular digital music and video devices are being shelved as the consumer-electronics industry grapples interminably with antipiracy policies, standards and consumer rights.
[March 11, 2003, 14:30]
EU investigates DRM privacy threat
News Digital rights management (DRM) -- the technology that could dictate everything from who can read your documents to what music player you can put your tunes on and a whole host of other things -- could be a threat to your privacy, according to the...
[February 9, 2005, 12:55]
DRM is failing, MPs told
News MPs were warned on Thursday that digital rights management systems are preventing consumers from exercising their fair-use rights. DRM has many problems," said Suw Charman, executive director of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns against...
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Will anyone share Sun's Dream?
Leader Enlightened content producers understand that digital rights management (DRM) is a poor way of preventing people from doing things they want; listening to downloaded music on a CD, for instance. Few industry-led discussions of digital rights...
[August 22, 2005, 15:05]
EMI considers opening its DRM to inspection
News The EMI Group is reviewing a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to allow reverse engineering of its digital rights management (DRM) software, EMI said on Friday. The EFF, a digital rights group, sent an open letter to EMI earlier...
[January 20, 2006, 12:45]
Sun rises on open DRM
News After years of work, Sun has begun trying to rally corporate allies behind a neutral standard for digital rights management (DRM), technology that restricts how music, video or other information can be used or copied.
[August 22, 2005, 9:10]
Streaming media group closes in on MPEG-4 copy protection
News Aiming to close a long-standing gap in digital rights management for MPEG-4, a streaming media consortium is seeking comments on an encryption specification scheduled for release in June. The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), whose members...
[April 1, 2003, 7:39]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
News The new version of the most widely used open source licence takes a "highly aggressive" stance against the digital rights management software that's widely favoured in the entertainment industry, said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free...
[January 19, 2006, 9:00]
Apple wants music to be DRM-free
News In a rare open letter from chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday, Apple urged record companies to abandon digital rights management technologies. In the letter, Jobs says Apple was forced to create a digital rights management (DRM) system to get...
[February 7, 2007, 10:15]
Motorola: Microsoft DRM will boost mobile music
News Mobile handset manufacturer Motorola has announced that it is integrating Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) technology into a number of its handsets. Suw Charman, executive director of the Open Rights Group, told MPs earlier this month...
[February 13, 2006, 16:30]
Torvalds rules out GPL3 for Linux
News Linus Torvalds said on Wednesday he won't convert Linux to version three of the GPL, as he objects to the proposed digital rights management provisions in the update. The GPL 3 draft contains new words opposing digital rights management, which...
[January 27, 2006, 8:20]
Microsoft coughs up to settle another legal saga
News Microsoft ended another long-standing legal dispute on Monday, announcing a $440m (£241m) settlement and licensing deal with InterTrust Technologies, which markets digital rights management tools. Last week, it acquired a majority stake in...
[April 13, 2004, 8:25]
Think Napster -- only for movies
News The World War of digital rights is welling up on the Internet. It has Hollywood, which is already on its heels in the war against piracy, sticking yet another thumb in the digital rights dam. But DVDs offer Hollywood's prized possession in pristine...
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Macrovision to use Microsoft anti-piracy technology
News Microsoft sank its claws a little deeper into the music business on Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license the company's Windows digital rights management technology for CDs.
[April 24, 2003, 7:51]
'Spider-Man' allowed to alter Times Square
News Upholding the rights of filmmakers to superimpose digital images on real-life buildings in their movies, a federal judge in New York has thrown out a suit filed by billboard and building owners against the creators of the "Spider-Man" movie.
[August 6, 2002, 8:36]
GPL 3 debate begins in earnest
News The Free Software Foundation on Monday released the first public discussion draft of the GPL version three, shedding light on proposed reforms to the document's patent and digital rights management provisions.
[January 17, 2006, 8:50]
DRM troubles drive ex-Microsoft employee to Linux
News Veteran Microsoft security expert Jesper Johansson has said he may dump Microsoft's Windows Media Center in favour of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE after struggling with the software giant's digital-rights management software.
[September 26, 2007, 9:45]
MP3 Summit: MP3 advocates for freedom or profits?
News Speaking Tuesday at the MP3 Summit '99 in San Diego, John Perry Barlow, one of the founders of the American cyber rights organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), tried to rally the 700 or so attendees against the record industry's plans...
[June 16, 1999, 8:17]
US Congress asked to unpick copy lock laws
News Formally titled the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, the new bill represents the boldest counterattack yet on recent expansions of copyright law that have been driven by entertainment industry firms worried about Internet piracy.
[October 4, 2002, 7:51]
