digital rights management

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• 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 day ago

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

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 654
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Updated DRM Reference Table

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 590
  The value of this item outweighs the inconvenience of the odd PDF registration form (which will allow dummy values, so if you dont want you dont have to submit real information). Its a pretty complete list "of over three dozen currently available DRM, content protection, and conditional access technologies for ...
  1 week ago

• What VEVO Means for the Premium Content Trend

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 164
  Today marks the launch of a new premium content portal experience, with Universal Music and Google teaming up on the read more
  1 week ago

• Loose Lips Syncing Shifts

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 103
  Back in the 80’s, MTV was cutting edge. To many of us growing up back then, music videos were as much a part of the soundtrack to our lives as the music itself. Inspired, my high school class produced its own music video; a lip syncing production of Devo’s We’re Through Being Cool which was seen by less ...
  2 weeks ago

• Man Reports Self to Police for Ripping DVDs

  
  ModCool — Authority: 157
  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, ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 149
  Can You Trust Your Computer? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF): Who should your...
  2 weeks ago

• How DRM anticircumvention laws stifle innovation

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 643
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 796
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 590
  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 ...
  4 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: 796
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 796
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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