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News Benn said: "We have now got to a stage where people are replacing those first-generation MP3 players and if they are unable to listen to their recordings because they are bound to a particular DRM they are going to get pretty fed-up.
[27 Mar 2008]
News Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection. Paul Battley, a developer for crowd-sourced reviews site Reevoo, wrote on his...
[17 Mar 2008]
News Hackers have been exploiting the loophole to download content stripped of its digital rights management (DRM) restrictions, which include the automatic deletion of downloaded programmes after 30 days.
[13 Mar 2008]
News He explained that with the availability of "robust, compatible" DRM software for PCs meant a Windows-based service was the first to emerge. The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according...
[08 Feb 2008]
News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Ashley Highfield discussed the iPlayer, DRM and more. More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after Christmas Day.
[15 Jan 2008]
News In the interview Highfield also talks about the future of DRM and 'BBC 3.0'. The BBC has hit back at criticisms from the Mac and open source communities over the iPlayer only being available for Microsoft's Windows XP platform.
[30 Oct 2007]
News She said the company began scaling back its DRM efforts last year in order to throw more resources at improving the Zune. Not only is the company one of the major providers of digital rights management software but executives there slammed Apple...
[03 Oct 2007]
News In areas with intellectual property concerns such as copy protection and DRM, AMD won't share details with the open source programmers, reserving support for those features only for the proprietary driver.
[07 Sep 2007]
News Earlier this month, Nokia also said it had licensed Microsoft's PlayReady mobile DRM technology. Microsoft has inked a pact to put mobile versions of its Windows Live services onto handsets made by Nokia, one of its chief competitors.
[23 Aug 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]
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]
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]
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