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...Amazon's move was actually a strategic salvo in the great secret war of the $60 billion music industry, the fight over Digital Rights Management, usually known by the spine-tinglingly thrilling abbreviation DRM. What's DRM? An invisible layer of software that bodyguards a computer file and limits what you can and can't do with it. Buy a song from Apple's iTunes Media Store, for example, and you can copy the file to five computers but no more. That's because the song comes with Apple's DRM software, FairPlay, baked in, and FairPlay...
...when Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, posted an essay on his company’s Web site calling on the largest recording companies to allow online music sales without any anti-piracy software.Echoing the sentiments of many recording industry officials, Jobs discussed the impossibility of digital rights management (DRM) on all music sold.Most CDs have no DRM capabilities, meaning users can easily rip them onto their computers and share them on a music downloading Web site. In his “Thoughts on Music,” Jobs outlined three alternatives and ultimately decided that the most feasible option...
Last Wednesday, before giving a talk at Harvard’s own Emerson Hall about the pernicious effects of DRM (Digital Rights Management) schemes, he met with The Crimson for an interview...
...digital rights is also the age of digital-rights management, or DRM. As you can imagine, movie studios won't let you burn these files to DVD, or e-mail them to your friends. Vongo has a way to transfer the movies to a portable device, but the devices - Generation 2 of Microsoft's Portable Media Center platform - is only just hitting the market and, to be blunt, aren't exactly iPods. Sadly, Vongo movies are not compatible with older Portable Media Centers, including those from Creative and Samsung. The folks at Starz assure me that they are working...
...from these stores on any mp3 player you’d like from Sony, Dell, or Creative—but not on your iPod. The culprit for this state of affairs is a set of proprietary technologies under the umbrella of “Digital Rights Management” (DRM), which Apple and everyone else sticks onto their songs to control how they can be used—how many CDs they can be burned to, how many different computers can play them, and so on. The major record labels all want DRM on songs sold online because they?...