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[News] Red Hat Publishes Video Against DRM, Microsoft's Crusade Against Linux Continues

  • Subject: [News] Red Hat Publishes Video Against DRM, Microsoft's Crusade Against Linux Continues
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:08:54 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
[Posted in the Truth Happens section now]

Dance on the grave of DRM with this awesome cartoon requiem video mashup
challenge.

,----[ Quote ]
| This is a prototype of a video designed to tell the story of DRM. The life 
| and death, the rise and fall, the here today, gone-tomorrow story of DRM. 
`----

http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/24/dance-on-the-grave-of-drm-with-this-awesome-cartoon-requiem-video-mashup-challenge/

Watch this self-contradicting screenhots:

http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3195


Related:

Bird Song: A requiem for DRM

,----[ Quote ]
| DRMs are often designed by ambitious, well-funded consortia, with top-notch 
| engineers from every corner of the industry. They spend millions. They take 
| years. They are defeated in days, for pennies, by hobbyists.  
| 
| - Cory Doctorow, Guardian Unlimited
|   Tuesday, July 31, 2007 
| 
| Sure, it’s probably too early to dance on the grave of Digital Rights 
| Management (DRM), but we can certainly continue pounding nails in its coffin 
| after Wal-Mart drove a stake through its heart this week.  
`----

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/24/birdsong-a-requiem-for-drm/


BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak

,----[ Quote ]
| "The future of iPlayer, the BBC's new online on-demand system for delivering 
| content, is continuing to look bleaker. With ISPs threatening to throttle the 
| content delivered through the iPlayer, consumers petitioning the UK 
| government and the BBC to drop the DRM and Microsoft-only technology, and 
| threatened legal action from the OSC, the last thing the BBC wanted to see 
| today was street protests at their office and at the BBC Media Complex 
| accompanied by a report issued by DefectiveByDesign about their association 
| with Microsoft."       
`----

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1721229&from=rss


Paramount: DRM may not (at least right now) please consumers

,----[ Quote ]
| "Interoperability (presents) an impediment to digital distribution," he said 
| during remarks at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit. "I'm 
| pretty confident that in the end solutions will be found. It's just a 
| question of how much heat and pressure we feel before we see the light."   
`----

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9764237-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


World's largest music retailer ditches DRM, not censorship

,----[ Quote ]
| DRM isn't yet dead in the music business, but it has a nasty, hacking cough. 
`----

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070821-worlds-largest-music-retailer-ditches-drm-not-censorship.html


Music DRM in critical condition: Universal tests DRM free music sales

,----[ Quote ]
| Universal Music Group has announced that the company is going to test selling 
| DRM-free music to consumers in order to assess the market. 
`----

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6939807.stm


AmieStreet.com Announces Series A Financing Led By Amazon.com

,----[ Quote ]
| Anyone can upload their music to AmieStreet.com, and all songs are 
| downloadable in DRM-free mp3 format. 
`----

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NYM01106082007-1.htm


Losses widen at Warner

,----[ Quote ]
| Big-selling albums by Linkin Park and the White Stripes were not enough to 
| prevent widening losses at Warner Music, which suffered a drop in income as 
| fans shifted from compact discs to digital downloads.  
`----

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2143551,00.html


EMI pays price for not moving with the times 

,----[ Quote ]
| In regards to EMI's recent joint venture with iTunes which offers DRM-free 
| downloads the group found that "early revenue indications for this initiative 
| are encouraging," according to breitbart.com.  
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41511


EMI has DRM free sales boom 

,----[ Quote ]
| Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes it has seen sales of Pink Floyd's Dark 
| Side of the Moon increase by between 272 and 350 percent.
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40443

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