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RSS drmWindows Media crack won't delay iPlayer
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]
BBC iPlayer goes public
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]
Data breach fears over iTunes songs
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]
Apple to lecture iPod lovers
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]
Encryption and Authentication for Scalable Multimedia: Current State of the Art and Challenges
White Paper 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]
Surfers all looking for a free lunch
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]
Amazon to open DRM-less digital song store
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]
Upwardly Mobile: Why mobile DRM must die
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: Why we keep our eye on the iPod
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]
Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?
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]
Modeling of a Reconfigurable OFDM IP Block Family for an RF System Simulator
White Paper 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]
ICI Reduction Method for OFDM Systems
White Paper 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]
CIO Essentials: iTunes, Glastonbury tickets and Bluetooth ads
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]
DRM-free tunes coming to the Zune too?
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]
Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes
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]
