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Opinion: iTunes Wants $250 To Upgrade My Music Collection (Or the Deal's Off) [ITunes]
Tue, Jan 13 | from Gizmodo
You're snickering. Not about the baseball bat (I hope), but about the whole spending-money-on-iTunes thing. Yep, I am a recovered iTunes DRM-music-buying addict. I still pay for music, but now Amazon is the legitimate source of all my thankfully DRM-free impulse buys.
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Barnes and Noble's Nook: A review
Geeky gadgets Part from that, one can also read non-DRM or Adobe DRM EPUB files, non-DRM PDB and PDF files. The unsupported formats are Microsoft Word DOC files or plain ... Barnes & Noble nook reviewSlashGear
Mon, Dec 7 | from The Money Times
Opinion: Why Kindle’s DRM Free-for-All Is Bad for Consumers and for Amazon
To prevent this from happening Amazon needs to take control of Kindle DRM and establish a standardized policy. Apple rightly acted as a mediator between the demands of copyright holders and the needs of consumers — Amazon should do the same.
Tue, Jun 23 | from Medialoper
Opinion: Boom Boom Pow! Apple Raises itune Prices
iTunes' new variable pricing: What do you think? Entertainment Weekly paidContent.org - Amazon May Be Gaining Traction In The MP3 Market Washington Post iTunes goes DRM-free, but jacks up pricing National Business Review Boston Herald - PC World
Tue, Apr 7 | from VARBusiness
Opinion: Apple criticized for iPod shuffle's new 'authentication chip'
PC World VA Update: Apple has denied that any DRM authentication mechanism is involved. The matter drew considerable attention after iLounge reported in its review of the petite player that Apple was doing something "sneaky and arguably terrible for consumers" ...
Mon, Mar 16 | from Apple Insider
Opinion: Disney DVD debacle: Wall•E vs. DRM
What most people are doing is ripping the movie (not copying to an ISO but actually ripping the movie cracking the DRM this is illegal in the USA) to the hard disk (allowing you to watch the movie on your PC off the HDD) which shows that their DRM isn’t even working. Even if you make an exact copy o...
Tue, Jan 6 | from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
Opinion: Giz Explains: Everything You Wanted to Know About DRM [Giz Explains]
• PlayReady is another Microsoft DRM flavor, aimed mostly at portable devices, but it also powers the DRM in Microsoft's Silverlight, which is what just brought Netflix streaming to Macs. • Not software DRM per se, but Windows Vista has a ton of DRM technologies baked right into it.
Thu, Dec 18 | from Gizmodo
Opinion: Gaming community turning against Electronic Arts over bundled DRM, malware
The name of the second program is SecuROM, which is a form of Digital Rights Management (DRM) for computer games. Although consumers are told that the game uses access control and copy protection technology, consumers are not told that this technology is actually an entirely separate, s...
Sat, Oct 25 | from Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog
Opinion: Can DRM enhance open licenses?
Design/methodology/approach – Traditional DRM and open licensing initiatives lack the required computerised support and flexibility to scale to internet-wide copyright management. Our approach is based on a semantic web ontology that conceptualises the copyright domain.
Mon, Oct 13 | from Open Access News
Opinion: Would Apple really shutter iTunes? Unlikely
NO DRM , higher quality , lower price. iTunes is past it`s prime . Amazon is actually allowed more music selection by the "big four" than iTunes , because ... Apple may close iTunes music store if price hike approved Australian Personal Computer
Wed, Oct 1 | from CNET News.com
