digital rights management

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• Man Reports Self to Police for Ripping DVDs

  
  ModCool — Authority: 160
  It’s not as daft as it sounds. Henrik Anderson, a Danish citizen, turned himself into police, confessing he had broken Danish anti-piracy laws by breaking the Digital Rights Management (DRM) on more than one hundred legally purchased DVDs. He did so because he wants some clarification. It seems, under Danish law, ...
  1 day ago

• Can You Trust Your Computer? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 446
  Can You Trust Your Computer? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF): Who should your...
  2 days ago

• How DRM anticircumvention laws stifle innovation

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Found via BoingBoing : a 54-page law journal essay by Wendy Seltzer discussing how Digital Rights Management anti-circumvention laws prevent almost all innovation around the media that they protect. Scholars have described DRM’s failures to protect copyright exceptions, its failures to stop unauthorized ...
  3 days ago

• Stardock CEO Takes Responsibility For Broken Game [Follow Ups]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 800
  After a reader complained that a computer game he downloaded from Stardock was broken, company president and CEO Brad Wardell refunded the money but said the problem was probably caused by a fan-created patch. We showed Wardell a forum that indicates Stardock was indeed selling a busted game , and he says he did ...
  1 week ago

• Canadian Ebook Store Offers Free Public Domain Ebooks -- Claims Copyright Says You Can Only Make 1 Copy

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 576
  I have in the past argued about how commercial distributors take free and open content and enclose it in proprietary formats and closed markets. Here we have a case in point. The ebook store launched by Chapters-Indigo provides "free" ebooks - but all claimed to be copyright to the store, all displayed in closed Flash ...
  2 weeks ago

• UPDATED: Stardock Takes Care Of Gamer Who Downloaded Messed-Up game [This Is What It Sounds Like When Warlords Battle-cry]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 800
  Tim downloaded a computer game from Stardock but found that its been crippled by DRM issues that treat him like hes a common pirate. At first he found customer service unresponsive and thought he would be out $10 (Stardock ended up refunding his money). He goes through his travails in great detail: Im hoping ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stardock Selling Broken Downloadable Game [This Is What It Sounds Like When Warlords Battle-cry]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 800
  Tim downloaded a computer game from Stardock but found that its been crippled by DRM issues that treat him like hes a common pirate. He finds customer service unresponsive and thinks he may be out the $10 he spent. He goes through his travails in great detail: Im hoping this story has enough of a "man bites ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bad news for streaming music services – Most students prefer to download music

  
  PhoneArea.net — Authority: 159
  Streaming music services like Spotify seem like n0-brainer winners. You get unlimited access to a virtually unlimited catalog of music for a nominal monthly fee. How could streaming music not be a…
  3 weeks ago

• Why is Apple meddling with my Windows AutoRun?

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 578
  Costin Raiu says Apples iTunes has started to meddle with the Windows AutoRun feature, making Microsofts operating system less secure.
  3 weeks ago

• Secret copyright treaty leaks. Its bad. Very bad.

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 576
  If described accurately, the provisions outlined in secret negotiations on copyright amount to a sovereign coup - an usurpation of basic rights and freedoms by a corproate government entity. Dont take my word for it. The provisions include: - ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material ...
  4 weeks ago

• Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 Available

  
  Information Technology News — Authority: 128
  Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the availability of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), a major software release enabling businesses and governments to build applications to improve interactions with customers and constituents across devices and channels. LiveCycle ES2 provides a rich Internet ...
  4 weeks ago

• IP Colloquium Podcast asks: Can Content Survive Online?

  
  IP Osgoode — Authority: 470
  Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.Good news for IP lovers who want to get their fix of policy debate at the gym or in the car: The Intellectual Property Colloquium podcast is for you. Based out of UCLA, the monthly downloadable program is hosted by law professor Doug Lichtman and [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Sony, Google Point the Way Toward a More Open Future for E-Books

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 670
  wwwade , e-books , IT Wade Roush wrote: In a presentation at the Boston Book Festival last weekend, Jon Orwant, a Google engineer involved in the company’s Book Search project, made a memorable and, I thought, quite perceptive remark about the e-book business. “Think about the books you have at ...
  5 weeks ago

• Numbers of Mass Distraction

  
  confused of calcutta — Authority: 100
  2009 Is Record Year For UK Singles Sales Innovation boosts record label income as licensing and rights deals generate £195m in 2008 New business models boost income for British record labels: licensing and multiple rights deals net £122m in 2007 New BPI Stats show strength of digital music Just some of the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Rights Contracts Seek to Control Distribution “Across the Universe” (video)

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Intellectual property rights are complicating and expanding at an unprecedented rate. Now, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, lawyers are writing contracts that require artists to sign over all potential distribution and marketing rights for their work, “across the universe” and “in perpetuity”. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Digial Rights Management …

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 439
  … illustrated . flickr / Martin Krzywinski This image is great. For the life of me I remain astounded by the success of the iPod/iTunes. I understand the branding quick-to-market aspects, but the iPod is a terrible tech device and standard. Ridiculous proprietary files, a history of just crippling DRM and ...
  5 weeks ago

• DRM Prevents “Accidental” Borderlands PC Sales from Activating Before Official Release

  
  Ripten Video Game Blog — Authority: 569
  Yes, you may be one of the few people posting pictures and video of yourself holding a PC version of Borderlands on the web, but the laugh’s on you if you actually try to play it. It seems that a few retailers out there jumped the gun and “accidentally” sold the title to PC hungry gamers (and maybe a few ...
  5 weeks ago

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