Archive for the ‘DRM’ Category
Friday, January 16th, 2009
In a move that many are applauding, Apple's iTunes music downloads store is now very nearly completely DRM free and is expected to be completely free of DRM laden music by sometime this spring. I have to say that I agree with a vast majority that moving to DRM ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
EA’s CEO John Riccitiello spoke recently at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference and claimed that 99.8% of gamers don't care about DRM. Judging from the growing dissatisfaction with any form of DRM on the part of a heck of a lot of people of the the last ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Not long ago Wal-Mart decided to send out an email telling music buying customers that they were going to shut down their DRM servers. This meant that DRM infected music would very likely stop working after that date and the only cure that users had would be to burn ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
I read on Slashdot that Wal-Mart is ending support for DRM encumbered music. This is both good and bad news at the same time.
The good news is that with the world's largest retailer moved to DRM Free music last year they gave a LOT of additional momentum to the ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The various messes with the RIAA continue getting worse. In one case for example Oklahoma State University ended up having to bow to an order to respond to an RIAA subpoena demanding a list of students names. Attorneys for the school emailed the list of names to the ...
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