Sony BMG settles suit over CDs
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| Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands
| more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and
| Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program
| on consumers' computers.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8M446200.htm
Amazon Soon Opening DRM-free MP3 Store
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| Looks like rumors are afloat that Amazon is planning on a late
| first quarter 2007 launch of a new music download store. In an
| already crowded music download market, Amazon hopes to differentiate
| itself in two major ways...
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http://www.computers.net/2006/12/amazon_soon_ope.html
Tivoisation explained - implementation and harms
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| To think about what free software licences should do about
| tivoisation, we have to understand what problems we're trying
| to prevent, and how it works - so that we can ensure that
| it doesn't work.
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http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/tivoisation_explained_implementation_and_harms
Related:
iTunes sales 'collapsing'
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| The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has
| experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to
| analyst company Forrester Research.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/11/digital_downloads_flatline/
Music to be offered in MP3 file format
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| After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy
| and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music
| labels are beginning to make some songs available in the
| unrestricted MP3 file format.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16179277.htm
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/bandrm/
Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead - Peter Jenner
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| Few people know the music industry better than Peter Jenner. Pink
| Floyd's first manager, who subsequently managed Syd Barrett's solo
| career, Jenner has also looked after T.Rex, The Clash, Ian Dury,
| Disposable Heroes and Billy Bragg - who he manages today. He's also
| secretary general of the International Music Managers Forum.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/03/peter_jenner/
The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM
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| 1. DRM doesn't prevent illegal use of files, it just makes it a bit
| more difficult to access them.
|
| 2. All it takes is one person to crack the file and it can be made
| available to everyone.
|
| 3. Anyone selling content on CD is already selling unprotected files
| anyway.
|
| 4. DRM adds a lot of costs for content producers
|
| 5. There's a huge hidden cost in trying to sell DRM'ed content
|
| 6. Often the costs of the DRM are passed along to the consumer as well.
|
| 7. DRM-free content will play on your device of today and your device
| of tomorrow
|
| 8. Your media devices of the future will be significantly different than
| your media devices of the present.
|
| 9. DRM fundamentally changes who is control of your media.
|
| 10. Whenever you buy DRM'ed content you support the system of DRM
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http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2006/11/the_top_10_argu.html
Is DRM good or bad for consumers?
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| In addition, many consumers don't understand DRM restrictions, and
| they're surprised when a CD that works on a home stereo can't be
| played somewhere else, she said. Vendors offer "little disclosure
| about how consumers can use" DRM-protected content, she said.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/08/HNdrmgoodorbad_1.html
The Danger of DRM
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| Sony, having acquired Columbia Records in 1988, was now aligned behind
| music industry interests. It had long sought to replace the open MP3f
| ormat with its own ATRAC audio compression scheme in order to retain
| control over digital music files and limit the potential for music
| file sharing.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/CEE58947-0EE3-44B1-AAEB-28CDCB307ADE.html
Why we are Not Evil !
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| # No DRM: No copy protection (DRM), you can do what you like with
| your music, unlike iTunes and Windows-media based web sites
| # Listen to everything: all our albums can be listened to in their
| entirety before you buy
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http://magnatune.com/info/whynotevil
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