EMI announced that they will start selling their entire digital music catalogue without DRM. DRM for those who are not familiar with it means Digital Rights Management. DRM simply allows music labels to control how you use your music. A music file with DRM can be restricted to play in a specific type or number [...]
Posts Tagged DRM
Set the music free
Apr 3
People like Cory Doctorow who makes his living by lambasting Apple’s iPod, iTunes and iTunes Music Store (iTMS) system makes me ill. It his latest anti-Apple tirade Apple’s Copy Protection Isn’t Just Bad For Consumers, It’s Bad For Business he once more complains about DRM in songs bought from the iTMS. This prompted a response [...]
All about DRM and respect
Nov 17
Is DRM just a ploy for companies to become a monopoly? Are these companies just using piracy as a scare tactic to force people to see their point of view and buy their products? Mike Evangelist has had enough and he will stop buying stuff from companies like Sony BMG. He says that he will [...]
Apple and Microsoft are collaborating to make an anti-p2p strategy. This involves making a new anti-file sharing DRM that will guarantee a level of copyright protection like no other. One such protection is when a track that is not sanctioned by the organized group is played on a digital music player like the iPod, a [...]
Bad news.
Nov 4
Sony-BMG caves in after people found out that their music CDs install a sort of trojan, a rootkit, when music CDs are inserted into PCs. This is happens without the owner of the CD’s permission or knowledge. The software has the ability to corrupt a system if removed without special permission from Sony. This is [...]
