DigitalRights

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• A List Of Lists

  
  Maitri's VatulBlog — Authority: 121
  Lizzy Caston and I were to write a mode d’emploi for air travel in this day and age of the ever-orange threat advisory.  A sample: Lady, please do your best not to wear four-inch-heeled slouch boots and every metal ring and bracelet in your collection before entering airport security.  The grimace on your face ...
  15 hours ago

• Hackers claim to have cracked Amazon Kindle DRM copyright protection

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 588
  DRM (Digital Rights Management) has long been the bane of consumers eager to move over to digital formats. So it’s no wonder hackers are constantly trying to find ways around the much-hated copyright protection.Copyright holders consider DRM as an essential tool in their fight against piracy, but consumers are left ...
  3 days ago

• My perfect FrankenReader: What would yours be like?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  How about this as a holiday present a year from now—a Kindle - Gen3 - Sony - Nook hybrid, as perfect as the landscape to the left, including the sky above? A nice Frankenstein with just the right parts. Yes, tech will get better, one way or another , but I’m talking about the next 12 months. My dream ...
  3 days ago

• Remove DRM sync iTunes Amazon music video DVD movie to Motorola Droid Milestone CLIQ Rival

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 471
  Q: I just got the new Moto Verizon Droid and I would like to put iTunes library onto Droid to replace my iPhone. Does anyone know how to transfer iTunes music TV shows movies to Droid? I’ve already tried Motorola Media Link….didnt work, I also want to transfer iPod music to Droid Milestone, any help?A: [...]
  5 days ago

• 451 CAOS Links 2009.12.23

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 569
  Red Hat’s Q3. Google’s definition of open. Copyright assignment. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know ...
  5 days ago

• Hacker Cracks The Kindle

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 457
  Amazon’s Kindle has copyright protection hacked Amazon hopes to sell a million Kindles by the end of the year An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, reports say. The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other ...
  5 days ago

• Hacker Defeats Kindle DRM

  
  ModCool — Authority: 157
  Let’s face it, for hackers digital rights management (DRM) protections are a challenge that can’t be passed up. Not just because of the notoriety hacking a DRM brings, but because DRMs are so darned easy to crack--sort of the cybercrime version of wolves culling the weak from the heard. Case-in-point, the Israeli ...
  6 days ago

• The BBCs digital rights plans will wreak havoc on open source software

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The BBC is trying to dictate what kinds of televisions and set-top boxes we use to watch its programmes Last summer, the BBC tried to sneak "digital rights management" into its high-def digital broadcasts. Now, generally speaking, the BBC isnt allowed to encrypt or restrict its broadcasts: the licence fee payer pays ...
  6 days ago

• EFF’s e-book buyer’s guide to privacy

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Found via BoingBoing : the Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted the first draft of an e-book buyer’s guide to privacy . The guide seems to be fairly minimalist, as it only covers Google Books, Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the Sony Reader, and FBReader. There is no mention of other e-book ...
  1 week ago

• Who owns the interview?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  In the last few months, I have been writing articles for the Springfield Business Journal based on interviews with local businessmen over the phone. Before that, I did podcasts in which I interviewed guest callers at length. I’ve thought a time or two about the possibility of making a new podcast and using ...
  1 week ago

• DRM Fiasco Takes Down Early Avatar Screening

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  One argument against DRM (digital rights management or copy protection) is that it is not failure proof, and when it fails, end users are left helpless. Thus, the fiasco at an early screening of the mega-blockbuster (and soon to be hit) "Avatar" in Germany, as a 3D version of the film was unable to be shown because ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft DRM locks Office 2003 users out of their own documents

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 136
  It seemed like a good idea, but what happens when you cant contact the server to confirm you can open the document you protected? DRM - digital rights management - is usually criticised because the "rights" that get conferred are those youd expect on an analogue product, but which are somehow withheld to be endowed ...
  1 week ago

• Angel_F at Generative Arts 2009

  
  [ AOS ] Art is Open Source — Authority: 111
  Angel_F is a young artificial intelligence son of Derrick de Kerckhove and the Biodoll. It ws born from a digitally sexual accident when the Biodoll seduced prof. Derrick de Kerckhove :) Angel_F presentation at Generative Arts 2009 View more presentations from xdxd . Angel_F participated to multiple events ...
  1 week ago

• Unprinting Journalism?

  
  Peter Bihr on Social Media, Web 2.0 & Digital Life [www.thewavingcat.com] — Authority: 114
  The discussion about the future of journalism, and how print media can move on to digital devices, has been going on for awhile yet. Time has recently announced a “magazine tablet” that’s demonstrated in the video below. It goes by the name Manhattan Project or SI Tablet (for Sports Illustrated, named after ...
  1 week ago

• A short history of copying

  
  Second Stindberg — Authority: 488
  [This is a post I made for Rez Magazine in July 2009. Since Rez Magazine is closing down, I saved the post for my own blog.] Copying is a fact. Copying has happened over the millenia. The first cavemen copied fire from lava flows or burning trees. Cultural advancements were based on copying. Things like a number ...
  1 week ago

• Garage doors, printers, and the DMCA: A look back

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson has posted a great feature story looking back at the famous Chamberlain garage door and Lexmark printer Digital Millennium Copyright Act cases. It takes a “where-are-they-now” look at the companies, updating the cases and their consequences to the present day. It starts when ...
  1 week ago

• Tuesday Midday Links: Stephen Covey Decouples

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 139
  I have no idea the contractual terms under which Stephen Covery made his publishing deal with Simon & Schuster but apparently it is allowing him to sell his digital rights to Rosetta Books in a deal that will make two of his bestselling books available ONLY on the Kindle platform for one year.  My guess is ...
  1 week ago

• e-wrongs

  
  Aristotle The Geek — Authority: 426
  I read a similar article in the NYT today, but this one in the WSJ (via the Mises blog ) on e-publishing rights is very interesting- Random House has sent a letter to literary agents claiming the digital rights to books it published before the emergence of a thriving electronic-book marketplace. In the letter, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Widevine Closes $15M in Growth Capital for Online Video Platform

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
  deals , Software , video Gregory T. Huang wrote: Seattle-based Widevine Technologies announced today it has raised $15 million in equity funding from strategic partners Liberty Global, Samsung Ventures, and an unnamed corporation. The round looks to be an extension of a smaller amount of funding ...
  2 weeks ago

• Widevine raises $15M for delivering web video to consumer gear

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Bookmark this categoryWidevine has raised $15 million in funding for its business of delivering video to web-connected consumer electronics gear.New investors include Liberty Global, Samsung Ventures and third unnamed strategic investor. The Seattle-based company is trying to deliver software that makes it possible to ...
  2 weeks ago

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