Canadian DMCA Introduction Delayed
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| The word this afternoon is that Industry Minister Jim Prentice will not
| introduce the Canadian DMCA tomorrow. The thousands of letters and phone
| calls over the past week have urged the government to adopt balanced
| copyright reforms that meets everyone's needs and does not unduly harm
| education, consumer rights, privacy, and free speech.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2459/1/
Recent:
No Swiss DMCA
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| A dangerous law has been passed on the 5th October by both the Parliament and
| the National Council almost without resistance. The revision represents
| massive advances for legal protection of copy protection mechanisms.
|
| It is my conviction that such technical copy protection measures are of no
| merit for the consumer and will ultimately also harm the content producers. A
| law that puts such measures under special protection is hence just as ill
| advised.
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http://no-dmca.ch/index.en.html
Amazon and Wal-Mart unwittingly team up against DRM
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| With Amazon spreading the word next year in a big way for DRM-free media and
| Wal-Mart trying to knock some sense into more major labels, 2008 is already
| looking to be a strong year for the fight against DRM.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071202-amazon-and-wal-mart-unwittingly-team-up-against-drm.html
Related:
DRM deathwatch: Sony, Wal-Mart
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| First, Sony is reportedly considering offering its catalog as MP3s, joining
| EMI and Universal Music Group. That would make Warner Music the last holdout
| among the Big Four. I'm not sure how long Warner could hold out if it saw its
| competitors selling more digital files thanks to the universality of the MP3
| format.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9827363-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
UK music store: DRM-free music outsells protected tunes four to one
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| DRM-free music sells at a much higher rate online than protected music,
| according to UK-based digital music store 7 Digital. In fact, customers buy
| it four times as often as they do DRMed music.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071109-uk-music-store-drm-free-music-outsells-protected-tunes-4-to-1.html
http://tinyurl.com/22jhju
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
Music DRM 'dead by next summer'
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| "It's MP3, absolutely," 7Digital MD Ben Drury told us. "People understand
| that MP3 works everywhere - that isn't true for AAC and certainly not for
| WMA."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08/drm_free_music_sales_up/
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/
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
Golden Rant : Microsoft DRM's gone too far
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| Microsoft appears to have hit the wrong button on its critical
| Windows XP download service late last month, pretty well forcing
| every XP user to upgrade to Windows Media Player (WiMP) 11 if
| they (like me and many others) have the automatic download/install
| option enabled for critical updates.
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=712
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| Gutmann: The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
DRM in Windows Vista
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| Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want.
| These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.
| They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will
| cause technical support problems. They may even require you to
| upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software.
| And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're
| working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM)
| features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment
| industry.
|
| And you don't get to refuse them.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html
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