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Microsoft: DRM Trojan hole is not a vulnerability
News Panda Software warned earlier this week that hackers are using the player's DRM tool to fool people into downloading spyware and viruses. This Trojan appears to utilise a function of the Windows Media DRM designed to enable licence delivery...
[January 14, 2005, 12:15]
No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
Blog Grinding their teeth, my correspondent went to open the document (thirty pages of an academic journal, costing around a pound a page) and was greeted by the Adobe DRM Activator. These cost a lot of money (despite, in the case of academic journals...
[October 14, 2008, 16:13]
DRM opponents call on U2 frontman
News Impressed by his stand on AIDS and third-world debt, a free and open software group has asked technologists to sign a petition calling on the lead singer of U2 to meet with them to discuss what it claims is the threat posed by DRM.
[July 5, 2006, 15:40]
DRM's struggle with language
Leader Yet that has happened with digital rights management and the Anti-DRM day that's been called for the 3 October. But DRM isn't of itself the issue. That's not helped by the way so many of the organisations who concern themselves with DRM, software...
[September 4, 2006, 18:10]
DRM Flash
Talkback I heard that they would use Adobe's new flash DRM to enable flash video to be downloaded and played offline but with DRM protection so that it couldn't be passed around or given a time limit on how long you have to use/watch it.
[December 17, 2007, 9:48]
DRM is failing, MPs told
Talkback DRM is an answer. It's always easy to find a question to an answer. The trick is to ask a question that questions the answer. But to which question really?
[March 20, 2006, 20:48]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
Talkback DRM is neither for users or criminals.criminals always know how to circumvent them). DRM is a commercial strategy of a given company, technically enforced. I don't want my DVD to play on a given zone ?
[January 20, 2006, 16:56]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
Talkback DRM isnt meant to be a benefit to users, its to stop criminals pirating software/music (and criminals seem to be a significant % of the people who post here) If you pirate software/music you are no better than a shoplifter/street mugger and should...
[January 20, 2006, 9:05]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
Talkback DRM and "Disney" etc. As that (Disney) part of the industry is set on "restricting" I feel they have also restricted their brains, their ability to think. As the opinion against "piracy" is as strong within the OSS community as in the "Disney...
[January 20, 2006, 8:29]
MPs launch DRM consultation
Talkback In what ways will DRM stand in contrast to already existing laws and (civil) rights? What are the (legal) requirements of DRM to work and in what way does that relate to existing laws and (civil) rights?
[November 15, 2005, 20:38]
MPs launch DRM consultation
Talkback In what ways will DRM stand in contrast to already existing laws and (civil) rights? What are the (legal) requirements of DRM to work and in what way does that relate to existing laws and (civil) rights?
[November 15, 2005, 20:40]
MPs launch DRM consultation
Talkback In what ways will DRM stand in contrast to already existing laws and (civil) rights? What are the (legal) requirements of DRM to work and in what way does that relate to existing laws and (civil) rights?
[November 15, 2005, 21:28]
Email trails lead to DRM
News It's an approach that can only work with a sturdy DRM system, Kruse said. Outside heavily regulated sectors such as banking, which have already developed industry-specific approaches to document security, there's been little visible interest to...
[April 20, 2004, 12:45]
Coral signals a new era for DRM
News The Coral Consortium, which will be announced on Monday, will initially draw on support from giants including Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Twentieth Century Fox, along with...
[October 4, 2004, 8:50]
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. Announced on Monday, the first day of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, the deal...
[February 13, 2006, 16:30]
Sony DRM rootkit 'legal in the UK'
Talkback I personally will never buy a drm protected cd. I have just one, a Kings of Leon. I havn't listened to it and never will. Because I don't own a CD player. What I do have is several networked PC's around my flat.
[January 28, 2006, 3:05]
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]
Motorola: Microsoft DRM will boost mobile music
Talkback Hopefully someone can come up with a standard for DRM (Microsoft, Apple whatever doesnt matter as long as its the SAME). No DRM no music industry eventually, of course whenever DRM is mentioned it brings the thieves out of the woodwork
[February 13, 2006, 21:51]
Anti-DRM day announced
Talkback DRM is about controlling access to data. First of all, until DRM prevents me, for example, from taking photos (or print screens) of a computer monitor and rerouting speaker output to a recording device DRM is more about market control then data...
[September 1, 2006, 22:49]
DVD-Jon: Critics 'don't understand DRM'
Talkback Apple's implementation of drm allows users to create their own CDs with music they purchased. How is it that anyone can claim that the customer has no control over what they purchased? Jon's actions only hurt Apple and everyone interested in...
[November 29, 2003, 0:52]
