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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-Removal
Downloads Easily convert DRM protected music files and various audio files to unprotected MP3, CD, iPod and other MP3 player file formats at high speed and CD quality - legally. With just a few mouse clicks you can enjoy all your protected songs on iPod, any...
[June 7, 2008, 18:25]
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]
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'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]
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]
DRM Dumpster
Downloads DRM Dumpster is the way to automate iTuens to convert DRM tracks from your music library to standard music files. DRM Dumpster uses a CD-RW and COM to script iTunes to convert all of the DRM music files in your library (or in a play list of your...
[October 18, 2007, 13:16]
DRM Dumpster For Windows
Downloads DRM Dumpster is the way to automate conversion of iTunes DRM tracks from your music library to standard music files. DRM Dumpster uses a CD-RW and COM to script iTunes to convert all of the DRM music files in your library (or in a play list of your...
[October 18, 2007, 13:16]
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM): Compliance Testing And Specification Validation
White Papers The DRM Consortium has now completed work on the technical standard which describes the "Signal on Air". Digital Radio Mondiale is a new system for digital broadcasting below 30MHz. This is an open standard which has now been published by ETSI as a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
DRM Pain In The A$$
Talkback DRM is just a pain in the a$$ anyway. I can't play a file legitimatly downloaded from the beeb on my avi/wmv compatible DVD player to watch on my TV because of it. Not everyone has a PC media system connected to their TV's or want to sit a corner...
[December 20, 2007, 10:27]
Microsoft Does DRM Flaw U-turn
News Last week, Microsoft declared Windows Media Player's method of handling DRM licences wasn't a security flaw, and said they wouldn't be issuing a patch. Antivirus company Panda Software warned last week that hackers are using the player's DRM tool...
[January 21, 2005, 8:25]
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]
EFF Lifts Curtain On New Act Of Sony DRM Farce
News The issue affects a different set of CDs than the ones involved in the DRM gaffe that led Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs last month, and which has triggered several lawsuits against the record label. The announcement is the latest result of the...
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
MPs Launch DRM Consultation
News The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) is taking a closer look at digital rights management (DRM). The group, which aims to promote discussion between politicians and the new media industries, has launched an inquiry into the issues...
[November 15, 2005, 14:30]
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]
GPL 3 To Take Hard Line On DRM
News At a two-day event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to launch the GPL version three, which governs use of countless free and open source programs, Moglen said the license includes anti-DRM provisions that could put it in conflict with movie studios...
[January 19, 2006, 9:00]
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 is concerned that the copy-restriction licensing agreements...
[January 20, 2006, 12:45]
Google DRM Could Be Shire Madness
Leader Known as halflings — because each had only completed one half of a PhD — they must journey to the very Gates of hell to put an end to the world of closed standards, and destroy DRM, the Dread Ring of Mordor.
[January 20, 2006, 14:25]
Pointless DRM? Surely Not!
Talkback You say that the BBC's content is already available online without DRM? Good Heavens! How could that be? After all, it's not as if the BBC is broadcasting it all unencrypted across the entire country 24/7 on digital Freeview channels, is it?
[July 17, 2007, 9:01]
Sony Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over DRM
News The record label has agreed to compensate buyers of CDs that contained the XCP and MediaMax DRM programs, and to provide software utilities to allow consumers to uninstall both types of software from their computer.
[December 29, 2005, 13:55]
