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  • DRM In HTML5 — Better Than the Alternative?


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    Underholdning writes "DRM is coming to HTML5. The W3C published a working draft yesterday of the framework that will support the use of DRM-protected media. Ars Technicas Peter Bright reports on it with an article claiming that DRM in HTML5 is a victory for the open web, not a defeat. Bright argues that if HTML5 does ...
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  • 3D-printed guns have lawmakers scrambling, but cooler heads are needed


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    The 3D printed "Liberator" is making a stir, with Congressional representatives already looking to ban the technology. Long-term, such an approach might be necessary -- but for now, a wait-and-see approach is both more prudent and more in-line with how weve typically approached access to dangerous information.
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  • Past time to amend the DMCA


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    The Digital Millenium Copyright Act, enacted on October 12, 1998, made it a crime to bypass digital rights management (DRM) applied to copyrighted works, among other things. Thus, as an example, if you purchased a commercial DVD, it would be … Continue reading →
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  • DRM: Dream on Android


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    Looks like Dream has been ported to Android: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drm/
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  • Congress to Consider DMCA Anti-Circumvention Reform…But Probably Not Very Hard


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    Well, it’s that time of decade again. Someone in Congress has finally—or, rather, once again—taken note of how the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions step all over consumer rights and introduced legislation to try to balance the scales. Ars Technica reports that three Democrats and a Republican, including ...
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  • E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, May 9, 2013


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    1. “Fair use” takes center stage at Google Books appeal (PaidContent.org) 2. Ending the TOC conference, but still pushing tools of change for publishing (O’Reilly) 3. Microsoft mulling Nook Media LLC purchase for $1 billion (TechCrunch) 4. U.K. publishers hit book sales record for 2012 amid digital growth (The ...
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  • Always-on: Not Always Awful


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    If you are any sort of gamer, you’ve probably heard about the “demonic” and “communist-esque” always-on products. Over the past years, this thought train has been drilled in many skulls, but is it honestly that bad? I mean sure it’s inconvenient to most gamers, but will it really mean the end of ...
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  • How to stop online piracy right now


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    You want to end piracy right now? Theres a simple way and it wont take  DRM, government intervention or draconian laws. Read my simple solution on FierceContentManagement. Photo Credit: CanStockPhoto
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  • Maxis is Patching Up SimCity With 3.0 Patch


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    While SimCity patch 2.0 failed miserably with hilarious results , patch 3.0 will be focusing on things I’ve always heard to be the main problem, beyond spotty server issues and its draconian DRM method. Issues such as weird traffic routing and waste pathing. From what I’ve heard, traffic tends to act very ...
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  • Day Against Digital Rights Management (DRM) Heats Up Debate


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    May 3, 2013 was the Day Against Digital Rights Management (DRM) according to a press release from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Timed to coincide roughly with the 20 year anniversary the open World Wide Web, FSF and more than two dozen other organizations announced the circulation of a petition opposing DRM ...
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  • With Music Piracy On The Rise, Should We Revisit DRM?


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    DRM or Digital Rights Management is the bogey man of the digital age. Proponents push the agenda then fall over themselves tracking back; opponents view it as the equivalent of an Internet nuclear winter. But with piracy on the rise and “hactivism” moving the piracy agenda forward, how do companies and individuals ...
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  • Giving them a taste of their own medicine


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    It is a fact of life that things will be bootlegged. (commonly called pirated, but this is one area where I strongly agree with rms. Piracy is a horrible thing where people get kidnapped on the ocean and die. I have in-law relatives who have died from pirates. So I don’t find it cute to compare that with people who ...
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  • Lack of economic harm from rights infringement not whole story


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    The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), a scientific institute of the European Commission, released a report with a familiar message: illegal music downloads arent a substitute for legal music downloads. While I believe this type of research is critical to debunk the outrageous claims about the ...
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  • EA appointed by Disney for Star Wars deal


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    While many hoped that once George Lucas got his paws off the Star Wars franchise things would get better, it appears that the new owners -  Disney - might be headed for similar daft decisions. read more        
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  • EA appointed by Disney for Star Wars deal


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    While many hoped that once George Lucas got his paws off the Star Wars franchise things would get better, it appears that the new owners -  Disney - might be headed for similar daft decisions. read more
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  • Does DRM Have Any Effect On Ebook Piracy? Nope.


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    Tor Books have now been selling their ebooks DRM free for a year, and in a statement have said that there has been no increase in ebook piracy in that year.  Note, no increase . Read more on Does DRM Have Any Effect On Ebook Piracy? Nope….
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  • Is DRM Amazon’s last walled garden with eBooks?


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    Kindle review takes a look at why DRM is still such a big thing in eBook markets: DRM means permanent lock-in. Once you get permanent lock-in, readers don’t switch. They don’t switch because the cost of switching is losing all existing books bought from the vendor. Readers are locked-in – once again at the ...
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  • Original SimCity creator calls EA’s server problems “inexcusable”


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    From our perspective in early May, the server debacle surrounding Marchs launch of SimCity seems like a bad dream. That hasnt stopped series creator Will Wright from recently looking back on the latest games rollout with a rueful eye. "I feel bad for the team," Wright said when asked about the troubled launch by ...
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  • The Sims 4 Officially Announced


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    The Sims 4 was announced today – the game is planned for a 2014 release on the PC and MAC. Very little information about the new game has been released yet but one of the EA PR reps Charlie Sinhaseni (who also worked on the SimCity release) tweeted that The Sims 4 will be offline.  Some popular YouTubers who ...
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  • Internal Microsoft email reveals Next Xbox will be playable offline


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    Ars Technica is reporting that they’ve received some internal documents from Microsoft that say that the next Xbox will indeed be playable without an internet connection, refuting earlier rumors that the console would have built-in “always online” DRM. The information comes from an e-mail that was sent from ...
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