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RSS drm in newsAmazon 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]
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]
Hollywood gives blessing to BitTorrent store
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]
Watchdog hits back at Jobs' DRM dream
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]
'Abandon DRM' shocker: Apple CEO pens open letter
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]
BBC web TV revamp: Linux and Apple are in
News Auntie will also now tackle the thorny question of DRM. The Trust has committed to being 'platform agnostic' and will work up some DRM options for Apple and Linux users within "a reasonable timeframe". [01 Feb 2007]
Future mobiles will cost consumers $150bn
News Nick Lane, principal analyst at Informa, told silicon.com: "DRM will be critical. With the average handset becoming ever more high-end, there will be more cash sunk into content and services by consumers - up to $150bn by 2011, analysts believe. [31 Jan 2007]
Piracy, patchy broadband hurting online content industry
News It said efficient DRM systems to manage and protect digital content are "necessary for a secure and sustainable rollout of digital distribution", but warned a lack of interoperability or standardisation in DRM may hinder digital content services... [29 Jan 2007]
Consumer groups wage war on Apple DRM
News The four parties - UFC-Que Choisir of France, the Federation of German Consumers Groups and the ombudsmen from Finland and Norway, which have all previously started legal action against Apple in their respective countries - are now uniting to... [24 Jan 2007]
Apple reveals new front in iTunes battle
News The legal war on DRM that prevents songs bought from Apple's iTunes Store from being transferred to non-Apple MP3 players has opened on a new front, according to the latest Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing by the Cupertino company. [03 Jan 2007]
Sony BMG faces ongoing rootkit fallout
News Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5m in fines and pay customers in California and Texas whose computers suffered damage as a result of Sony's surreptitiously installed digital... [21 Dec 2006]
Microsoft pays Universal for 'iPod killer' sales
News Despite this figure 60 per cent of content providers are yet to invest in digital rights Management (DRM), which could alleviate the problem. SafeNet managing director Simon Blake-Wilson said the demand for online music and television is continuing... [10 Nov 2006]
Apple's proprietary DRM cracked
News Apple's proprietary DRM technology may have survived allegations of anti-competitiveness and even government attempts at intervention in the past two years but it seems one software engineer has found a way to crack the iTunes code. [25 Oct 2006]
