NotesIt involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they canât prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesBut back to my user journey. After the 404 error I took control of the user experience myself. I Googled âDoctor Who S07E01 torrentâ, and I very much doubt Iâll ever attempt to use UltraVioletâą again.Unfurl
NotesSo, because DRM never goes wrong, let's just vandalize the content created by the purchasers of our software. Oh wait, we meant to do that to the pirates. Oh well.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesI just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesAmazon wipes a woman's Kindle and shuts down her account. This is why I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy, and archive each away on my home server. And, also, why I rarely buy Kindle books.FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes âOur authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,â said president and publisher Tom Doherty. âTheyâre a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.âFeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesAs ebook sales mushroom, the Big Six's insistence on DRM has proven to be a hideous mistake. Rather than reducing piracy[*], it has locked customers in Amazon's walled garden, which in turn increases Amazon's leverage over publishers. And unlike pirated copies (which don't automatically represent lost sales) Amazon is a direct revenue threat because Amazon are have no qualms about squeezing their suppliers â or trying to poach authors for their "direct" publishing channel by offering initially favourable terms. (Which will doubtless get a lot less favourable once the monopoly is secured ...)FeedUnfurl
NotesAdobe's decision to stop developing mobile Flash shouldn't surprise: Adobe can see there's more money in preventing people watching stuff than enabling them to do so.
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Amazon's Kindle might be the biggest kid on the block, but just about all the other electronic book readers rely on Adobe's Digital Editions DRM to protect (and distribute) their content (which is laid out using the Adobe-owned-but-happily-shared ePub format).FeedUnfurl
Notesa kind of a swiss knife for a Steam content and stuff to process and launch.
It has some additional features for launching Source and GoldSource games. Unfurl
NotesThere are more than a few reasons digital rights management (DRM) has been largely unsuccessful. But the easiest way to explain to a consumer why DRM doesn't work is to put it in terms he understands: "What happens to the music you paid for if that company changes its mind?" It was one thing when it was a theoretical question. Now it's a historical one. Rhapsody just had the next in a line of DRM music services to go--this week the company told its users than anyone with RAX files has unil November 7 to back them up in another format or lose them the next time they upgrade their systems.Unfurl
NotesYou love your Kindle, but you hate the DRM. What do you do? Well, if you like, weâll tell you how to strip the copy-protection from your e-books, leaving a plain, vanilla e-book file in the format of your choice. This doesnât just work for Kindle book, either. The method, detailed by Apprentice Alf, will also remove DRM from Mobipocket, Barnes and Noble, Adobe Digital Editions and Fictionwise books, making these stores much more attractive to buyers.Unfurl
Notes"I buy books. A lot of them, and I like to own the books I purchase. By that statement I mean that I want to be able to read the book on whatever device I want. To be able to do that I have to remove the DRM from the books I buy.<br />
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I NEVER distribute the books I buy, and neither should you."Unfurl
Notes"A tribute to "fair use" and the AP's misguided crusade against the hyperlink. All content on this site was generated automatically from the AP's own RSS feeds. (Sorry, we forgot to include your magic DRM beans.) â„"Unfurl
Notes"This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is ârare,â but that it can happen at all is unsettling; weâve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, weâve learned that theyâre not really like books, in that once weâre finished reading them, we canât resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final. "Unfurl
Notes"A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a major content company without understanding the internet. Today, Lynton hit back at critics -- not by saying he was quoted out of context or misunderstood, but by standing behind the statement and adding some gems to it as well. Let's take a look..."Unfurl
Notes"Personally, despite my neverending love affair with the written word, Iâm getting tired of owning print books. There, Iâve said it. They take up a whole lot of space, they clutter, and theyâre obnoxious to pack (yes, Iâve moved twice in the last five years and that may not be the end of it, how about you?). For my purposes, with most books, ebooks would be far preferable both for one-time and many-time reads⊠if I could be assured of keeping my many-time reads."Unfurl
Notes"Leave it to Apple (AAPL) to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center. If users convert every one of the 9 billion songs purchased from the iTunes Store over the past six years, a rich new revenue stream will flow toward Cupertino. Techcrunchâs Erick Schonfeld calls it Appleâs â$1.8 billion music tax.â"Unfurl
Notes"Thatâs me in the DVD. But because the MPAA makes software companies bend over to protect their content by baking DRM into the apps that ship with my computer, Iâm prevented from doing legitimate things with my own content. Thankfully, there are ways around it (Jing was more than happy to capture a screenshot - Iâm sure the MPAA attack dogs will be closing that hole ASAP)."FeedUnfurl
Notes"All those companies (cough Amazon cough Apple cough) that say they're only doing DRM for now, until they can convince the stupid entertainment execs to ditch it, heed this lesson: you will spend the rest of your corporate life paying for this mistake, maintaining infrastructure whose sole purpose is to lock your customers into a technology restriction that no one really believes in. Welcome to the infinite cost of doing business with Hollywood. "Unfurl
Notes"Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you've changed email addresses or if you're not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th. "Unfurl
Notes"Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any momentâno matter what your expectation was when you bought it."Unfurl
Notes"The maxim goes that new technologies donât kill off old media â radio didnât kill newspapers, TV didnât kill radio, etc. But itâs not clear this maxim will hold true in the digital age"Unfurl
Notes"Our kids will laugh when weâre 60 and we donât know which button turns on the garbage disposal and which one vents plasma from the starboard nacelles."Unfurl
Notes"The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album Wednesday is the latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the advent of digital music, experts say."Unfurl
Notes"Key revocation doesn't work. Suing the Internet doesn't work. DRM doesn't work ... Pirates who download movies don't ever see DRM. Honest customers who buy media are the only people who ever get restricted by it "Unfurl
Notes"In spite of the lack of IP protection for clothing designsâor rather, because of this lack, the authors argueâthe fashion industry remains vibrant and profitable"Unfurl
Notes"The Barenaked Ladies are offering their latest album, âBarenaked Ladies Are Me,â as a download from their website without digital rights managment."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Amazon's new video-on-demand store may sound like a good idea, but once you take a look at the "agreement" you enter into by giving them your money, that changes."Unfurl
Notes"Whatever you do, donât buy DRMâd ebooks. You are just ripping yourself off in the long run." Amen to that. I've bought a few ebooks with DRM, and it was all a waste.Unfurl
Notes"Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future."Unfurl
Notes"offer songs as high quality, variable bit rate MP3 files instead. DRM is removed, consumers are happy, and the vast white fields of the iPod are ready for harvest."Unfurl
Notes"For those who aren't familiar with Mr. Giovanetti's work, he's a frequent and pugnacious commentator on intellectual property issues, and an avowed supporter of the DMCA and digital rights management technologies."Unfurl
Notes"Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?"Unfurl
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I Donât Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog
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Cutting their own throats - Charlie's Diary
Adobe's future is controlling what you watch, not delivering it âą The Register
Mass Effect 3 PC requires initial internet check; no local co-op on all platforms | Joystiq
The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music | opensource.com
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