Bird Song: A requiem for DRM
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| 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
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| 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.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/24/birdsong-a-requiem-for-drm/
Protesters call on the BBC to eliminate DRM from the “iPlayer”
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| £130 Million wasted because of Digital Restrictions Management
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| [...]
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| FSF Executive Director attending the protest spoke about the corrupting
| influence of Microsoft, "BBC values have been corrupted because BBC
| Executives are too closely associated with Microsoft. BBC values have been
| corrupted because the iPlayer uses proprietary software and standards made
| under an exclusive deal with Microsoft. BBC values have been corrupted
| because license fee payers must now own a Microsoft operating system to
| download BBC programming. BBC values have been corrupted because license fee
| payers must accept DRM technologies that spy and monitor on the digital files
| held on their computers. We are here today to help BBC Director General Mark
| Thompson, clean up this DRM mess, and to encourage the BBC Trust to reverse
| course and eliminate DRM from the BBC iPlayer"
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http://www.fsf.org/news/bbc_iplayer
Related:
BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak
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| "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."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1721229&from=rss
Paramount: DRM may not (at least right now) please consumers
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| "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."
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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
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| DRM isn't yet dead in the music business, but it has a nasty, hacking cough.
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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
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| Universal Music Group has announced that the company is going to test selling
| DRM-free music to consumers in order to assess the market.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6939807.stm
AmieStreet.com Announces Series A Financing Led By Amazon.com
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| Anyone can upload their music to AmieStreet.com, and all songs are
| downloadable in DRM-free mp3 format.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NYM01106082007-1.htm
Losses widen at Warner
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| 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.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2143551,00.html
EMI pays price for not moving with the times
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| 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.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41511
EMI has DRM free sales boom
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| 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.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40443
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