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Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment Giving one the green light but not the other would be difficult - yet okaying Real's app may be a less than palatable decision for Apple given the animosity that developed between Apple and Real in the Fairplay DRM... [03 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?
Comment The news is likely to go some way to placating the governments of EU countries such as France and Norway which have complained about FairPlay and threatened to introduce legislation to force the iTunes Store to relax its... [11 Apr 2007]
'Abandon DRM' shocker: Apple CEO pens open letter
News Well, I don't even want FairPlay. But there are alternatives, Jobs wrote: Apple and the rest of the online music distributors could continue down a DRM path; Apple could license the FairPlay technology... [07 Feb 2007]
Apple's proprietary DRM cracked
News Now Jon Lech Johansen - better known as DVD Jon - is widely reported to have reverse-engineered his way under the skin of Apple's FairPlay DRM. Apple's proprietary DRM technology may have survived allegations of... [25 Oct 2006]
French DRM-busting law strokes Apple, hurts P2P
News Apple's dominance in the online music world has been fostered by its FairPlay DRM, which permits songs bought from its iTunes Music Store to be played only with its iPod MP3 players. France's controversial copyright law,... [31 Jul 2006]
DRM-busting law gets French thumbs-up
News Apple's DRM, known as FairPlay, has been jealously guarded by the Mac-maker despite requests from major tech players to make it interoperable. To date, only Motorola has received a licence allowing it to use... [03 Jul 2006]
Nordic trio wage war on Apple's DRM
News Denmark, Norway and Sweden have all agreed to tackle the issue of the lack of interoperability between Apple's DRM, known as Fairplay, and copy protection systems used by rivals such as Microsoft, for their MP3 players. [12 Jun 2006]
Apple slams French kiss of death for DRM
News France's lower house of parliament passed a law on Tuesday that would require digital content providers to share details of their rights management technologies with rivals.iTunes songs are protected by Apple's FairPlay... [23 Mar 2006]
France to force Apple to open iPod DRM?
News A law currently making its way through the French parliament could see Apple's FairPlay DRM opened up. Changes to the French droit d'auteur (copyright) law, currently being debated in parliament, are expected to be voted... [14 Mar 2006]
Apple prepping movie download service?
News While the survey is not Apple-branded and the company behind it has remained anonymous, the Cupertino company has not licensed its Fairplay DRM to anyone else, meaning at present only Apple sells video content compatible... [03 Mar 2006]
Minority Report: Apple as media company - and why that's good for Macs
Comment The company has done the really hard work in convincing record label executives to embrace the shift to selling music online, and has proven it is serious about digital rights management and protecting the intellectual property rights of... [02 Sep 2005]
Real fears legal action from Apple over iPod DRM
News That involved breaking Apple's FairPlay DRM (digital rights management), which ensures that music bought from rival online music sellers won't play on the iPod. In a recent SEC filing, Real declared that should Apple... [12 Aug 2005]
Apple faces lawsuit in iTunes patent row
News Virgin has complained to European regulators that Apple's refusal to licence its FairPlay digital-rights management technology is unfair. A Vermont company has sued Apple, alleging that the interface for iTunes infringes... [22 Jun 2005]
Law to make iTunes compatible with Microsoft?
News The Congress have been considering a plan that would outlaw music protected by proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology, such as Apple's FairPlay, which stops iTunes downloads being played on Microsoft... [07 Apr 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Digital music and DRM
News Earlier this year, RealNetworks cracked Apple's DRM, FairPlay, and started flogging its newly iPod-compatible tunes at bargain basement prices. Love FairPlay or hate it, it's the key prop to the stellar... [17 Dec 2004]
