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Survey: Digital rights management about to boom
News Digital rights management (DRM) products help companies safeguard email and other digital documents from loss or theft. The market for software that protects private data is expected to grow to $274m (£151m) by 2008, from $36m in 2003, market...
[July 2, 2004, 12:35]
Managed Testing Service for a Digital Rights Management Product
White Papers The company is a leader in electronic licensing, installation, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies. Over 50,000 software publishers and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies rely on company's technology to maximize the value of their...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Introduction to Digital Rights Management
White Papers Most people have heard of software licensing and pay per view television, but possibly not connected it with a development in technology called Digital Rights Management (DRM). To understand what DRM is trying to achieve you first of all need to...
[March 29, 2005, 3:00]
Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services for Windows Server 2003: Helping Organizations Safeguard Digital Information from Unauthorized Use
White Papers This paper discusses Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003 and related technologies. RMS is information protection technology that works with RMS-enabled applications to help safeguard digital information from...
[November 27, 2003, 23:36]
Survey: Digital rights management about to boom
Talkback The true concept of DRM, with an end goal of protecting data, and preventing viruses and worms is in itself sound. However, DRM (TCP, and a number of other discarded names and anagrams) is instead being developed to track and control personal use...
[July 10, 2004, 9:39]
Digital rights and digital wrongs
Leader We too have our digital rights; we are not just here to be managed. DRM restricts the rights of consumers; it must itself be restricted. In the US, the record industry is fighting hard to make DRM an integral part of digital radio, and has already...
[February 3, 2006, 13:05]
Digital rights and actual wrongs
Leader Any computer would of course qualify, and would need a full suite of digital rights management (DRM) software in order just to be legal - and that DRM would be under the control of the content providers.
[November 7, 2005, 13:45]
Digital rights mismanagement
Leader There is no more piquant example of the damage digital rights management can do than the BBC. A first-tier public-service broadcaster charged with serving the public, it has always been keen to use the internet to extend its reach and improve its...
[July 16, 2007, 17:56]
MP3 revamp to prevent piracy
News Thomson and Fraunhofer, the companies that license and own the patents behind the MP3 digital music technology, are in the midst of creating a new digital rights management add-on for the popular format, a Thomson executive said on Tuesday.
[March 2, 2004, 7:50]
Stallman touts GPLv3 provisions
News The right to remove digital rights management controls and patent protection for free and open-source software users is an important provision in the General Public License version 3, says the Free Software Foundation.
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
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]
Sky hit by return of Windows Media DRM crack
News Broadcaster Sky has suspended its broadband movie download service after a Microsoft security patch on Windows Media's digital rights management (DRM) was cracked. The issue of digital rights management technology is becoming increasingly heated...
[September 11, 2006, 13:00]
Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM
News "More choice for you" is the argument a Sony executive repeatedly made when questioned about digital rights management during an open-mic panel at Siggraph, a computer graphics industry conference taking place in Boston this week.
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Microsoft locks down Office documents
News As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena -- your desktop. It's pretty clear with digital rights management what it is and what...
[September 2, 2003, 14:25]
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]
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. One MP pointed out that virtually all media companies use digital rights management in some form, but Rufus Pollock...
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
GPL's DRM restrictions are revised
News The Free Software Foundation has revised provisions concerning the thorny area of digital rights management in a new draft of the General Public License released on Thursday. Digital rights management, or DRM, puts controls on how computers can run...
[July 28, 2006, 9:15]
.Net and XP hit by patent suit
News A digital rights management company has expanded its patent infringement suit against Microsoft, targeting its forthcoming Windows XP operating system and .Net initiative. As Microsoft is now moving into it, they're adopting that very technology...
[October 19, 2001, 9:31]
Microsoft launches 'PlayReady' DRM system
News Microsoft has launched a new digital rights management system that will allow users to use commercial content on multiple different devices for a single fee. Although digital rights management (DRM) is popular with content creators, it has...
[February 12, 2007, 16:00]
Government rejects calls for DRM ban
News The UK government has rejected a call for digital rights management to be banned in the UK, but has acknowledged that the technology could undermine consumer rights. A total of 1,414 people signed an online petition calling for digital rights...
[February 20, 2007, 12:47]
