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whitepaper Based on results of an initial strategy project, AAP and Accenture then worked to identify, develop and recommend open standards and publisher requirements in three areas critical to the creation of a successful eBook marketplace: Numbering...
[26 Jul 2007]
whitepaper DRM will prevent illegal distribution of media objects and provide new business models such as preview, superdistribution, gifting, rights updates and more. For example, a user can download a MIDI ring tone or game to his mobile for a day or a week...
[19 Jul 2007]
News The iPlayer, which is based on Microsoft's media player and DRM technology, is due to be launched on 27 July, and has already attracted controversy and criticism over the decision to use proprietary technology for a platform supposedly catering to...
[17 Jul 2007]
News He added the iPlayer couldn't have been launched without a digital rights management (DRM) system as independent producers - whose livelihoods depend on their programmes - would not have agreed to the permanent distribution of their work otherwise.
[27 Jun 2007]
News DRM is also restrictive, telling you how many times you can play a song or which device it can be played on. Apple is in trouble with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for embedding customer information within iTunes music.
[04 Jun 2007]
News In other Mac-related news, Apple has also launched its DRM-free iTunes Plus service so customers can download tracks from music label EMI's track listings without any restrictions on the type of music player or number of computers purchased songs...
[31 May 2007]
whitepaper This fine granularity scalability poses great new challenges to the design of encryption and authentication systems for scalable media in Digital Rights Management (DRM) and other applications. Scalable coding is a technology that encodes a...
[25 May 2007]
News The blossoming of 'free' services will be driven by a desire to reach cash-shy younger users as well as an attempt to charm those who have been put off by "the realities" of premium content such as DRM.
[16 May 2007]
News The ecommerce giant has announced it intends to offer songs from more than 12,000 record labels in the MP3 format, without the controversial digital rights management (DRM) software. Record labels are beginning to warm up to the concept of offering...
[16 May 2007]
Comment The brave new world of DRM-free music is in its infancy but it will surely have implications for mobile music. The sun has not long set on the announcement between Apple and EMI that saw the record company's catalogue emerge on iTunes DRM-free, yet...
[01 May 2007]
Leader Think of the arguments over DRM - the iPod became central to rows over digital rights management and then for the music industry's decision to dump its self-imposed restrictions on digital content. DRM has long been a monkey on the back of digital...
[11 Apr 2007]
Comment Apple's decision to sell music without DRM is certainly risky. Apple sold a lot of iPods off the back of the FairPlay arrangement so it was in its interest to support DRM-locked content. That Apple was prepared to advocate a DRM-less utopia is...
[11 Apr 2007]
whitepaper So far the applicability of the proposed reconfiguration and analog-digital co-modeling methods have been proved by modeling the function of the digital parts of three, 802.11a, ADSL and DRM, transmitters in an RF system simulator.
[11 Apr 2007]
whitepaper The paper also investigates the effects of ICI on the new OFDM-based digital radio standard DRM and show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the performance degradation caused by ICI.
[11 Apr 2007]
News Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes DRM-free tunes coming to the Zune too? By opening up the inter-operability of legal downloading and going some way to de-mystifying the whole process by removing DRM, albeit at a premium initially on...
[10 Apr 2007]
News When Apple CEO Steve Jobs issued his open letter calling for an end to DRM, Microsoft said the total abolition of such protections would be irresponsible, since they are needed for subscription music and other new business models.
[05 Apr 2007]
News Apple and EMI have announced they have taken the first steps towards DRM-free digital music - but only for those who are prepared to pay extra. Individual restriction-free songs will be available for 99p in the UK, €1.29 in Europe and $1.29 in the...
[02 Apr 2007]
News To sell entertainment companies on the idea they could profit from the file-sharing system, BitTorrent executives had to make some important concessions - such as wrapping digital media on the site in a DRM system.
[26 Feb 2007]
News One of the European regulators slammed in Steve Jobs' open letter on DRM has hit back, rebutting the Apple chief's position that music companies and not hardware makers are responsible for locking systems down.
[07 Feb 2007]
News In a rare open letter from CEO Steve Jobs, Apple has urged record companies to abandon DRM technologies. Jobs' letter is a bit surprising in that Apple, with the most successful online music store on the planet, has profited by including DRM...
[07 Feb 2007]
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