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1. DRM-free iTunes music embedded with owner's email address

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 13 January 2009

     Apple's DRM-free iTunes service is proving to be completely DRM-free, meaning any player can play new music downloaded from iTunes in the AAC (.m4a extension) iTunes Plus format. However, the DRM-free ...

2. 2009: Year of mergers, platform changes and conservation

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 26 December 2008

   ... or cassette tape. It still amazes me that the misguided efforts surrounding DRM have effectively created some of the strongest incentives for pirates and disincentives for legitimate buyers at the same ...

3. Kick those DVDs to the curb with Real DVD

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 08 September 2008

   ... the Internet.  We’ll see how long it takes hackers to get around this limitation. Drawback: DRM A ripped file cannot be played on another computer unless that computer runs another license of RealDVD ...

4. Multiple: 2007 top ten lists

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 28 December 2007

   ... to set in. #7 - The death of the iPod. #6 - Sideshow notebooks to finally arrive. #5 - Cloud computing won't take off. #4 - Music labels leave DRM town. #3 - The Internet won't slow down. #2 - ...

5. Wal-Mart moves into DRM-free music arena

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 21 August 2007

   Wal-Mart announced today that it has begun selling unprotected MP3 files at its online music store at prices that still undercut most other DRM-ridden tracks. Bentonville (AR) - Wal-Mart announced today ...

6. Wrap-up: AMD outlines a bright future at Technology Analyst Day

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 26 July 2007

   If you have been waiting for some news on how AMD will counter Intel in the next one, two years, then the Technology Analyst Day provided many answers. Not a lot of finished products, but AMD outlined ...

7. Windows Media, Zune DRM encryption gets cracked

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Tuesday, 17 July 2007

   Someone going by the forum name Divine Tao has cracked Microsoft's DRM blackbox components, opening up Windows Media Player and Zune restrictions. Someone going by the forum name Divine Tao has ...

8. EMI agrees to $4.7 billion takeover

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 22 May 2007

   ... its recorded music division and accelerate the development of its digital business." It is unclear at this time what that means for the firm’s recent announcements to offer DRM-free music for ...

9. AnyDVD HD now copies Blu-ray discs, too

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 06 March 2007

   Slysoft claims to have bypassed virtually any copy protection technology that is integrated in the high-definition disc formats HD DVD and Blu-ray. Following the previously announced HD DVD ripper, the ...

10. Opinion: Who needs DRM?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 February 2007

    ... brave and - in the IT industry - stunning move to question the value of copy protection technologies for digital music, commonly referred to as digital rights management (DRM). In fact, his "Thoughts ...

11. Scalers beat HD DVD and Blu-ray at CES 2007 - analysis

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 January 2007

    ... is interesting to note that Sony/BMG and Columbia have both been the most aggressive in the use of DRM. Columbia movies are known for having problems with some players and Sony/BMG got nailed for tying ...

12. Analyst opinion: Searching for the perfect Media Center PC

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 28 December 2006

    ... content resources have turned out to be a disadvantage rather than an advantage by driving unique DRM-based solutions that have been incredibly difficult to use and integrate policies (such as the infamous ...

13. Movielink to offer DVD burning - if Hollywood plays along

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 18 July 2006

    ... is tranferred from a hard drive to portable and potentially vulnerable media. Sonic spokesperson Chris Taylor told TG Daily that Sonic's video-on-demand technology is capable of integrating DRM solutions, ...

14. Symantec issues security warning for its own software

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 13 January 2006

    ... DRM protection drivers. At that time, Symantec was one of the first companies to distribute the stealth removal tool developed by XCP's creators, First4Internet. In its security bulletin last November, ...

15. Sony BMG's DRM provider does not rule out future use of stealth

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 04 November 2005

    ... No material evidence of these claims has been presented, though last Tuesday, F-Secure officially listed the XCP DRM software as a virus. No method of propagation or payload distribution was reported. ...

16. Sony offers patch to remove hidden DRM drivers :BetaNews

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Thursday, 03 November 2005

    ... Mook reports that Sony has acknowledge the veracity of this engineer's tale by publicly offering a patch that removes the DRM driver: The patch will be made available for download from Sony BMG's Web site, ...

17. DRM moves into digital textbooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 10 August 2005

      Digital rights management (DRM) is not just a technology for content providers to set access rights to audio and video. Digital rights management (DRM) is not just a technology for content providers ...

18. New tool cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 05 April 2004

      According to a post at Slashdot, a new tool name PlayFair removes the DRM from AAC music files protected by Apple's FairPlay encryption used with the iTunes music download service. According to ...

19. DRM and Digital Audio Incompatible

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 28 August 2001

      Connoisseurs of digital audio on their PCs may be in for a shock. For Pentium 4 parts up to 2 GHz Intel will maintain 423-pin PGA socket packaging, we learned at IDF, but for higher than 2 GHz ...