Rowling: No e-book for Harry Potter VII
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| Sorry, e-book fans, whoever you are. You will be able to read the new
| Harry Potter on paper, listen to it, probably purchase it in Braille.
| But don't expect to download the text -- at least legally.
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| J.K. Rowling has not allowed the first six Potter stories to be
| released as e-books and has no plans to change that for the seventh
| and final work, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Neil Blair,
| a lawyer with Rowling's literary agency, told The Associated
| Press on Sunday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_on_hi_te/harry_potter_e_books
closed-source digital locks fail miserably. Those naive enough to adopt them
soon enough drop them. Some computer scientists already experiment with the
idea of watermarking as a replacement for DRM.
Related:
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| Security researcher Alex Ionescu claims to have successfully bypassed
| the much discussed DRM protection in Windows Vista, called 'Protected
| Media Path' (PMP), which is designed to seriously degrade the
| playback quality of any video and audio running on systems with
| hardware components not explicitly approved by Microsoft. The bypass
| of the DRM protection was in turn performed by breaking the Driver
| Signing / PatchGuard protection in the new operating system. Alex is
| now quite nervous about what an army of lawyers backed by draconian
| copyright laws could do to him if he released the details, but he
| claims to be currently looking into the details of safely releasing
| his details about this at the moment though.
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1811201&from=rss
Blu-ray cracked too?
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| It's still early on to tell whether this is actually true, but HD DVD
| cracker muslix64 is back, and with the help of another anti-DRM
| cracker, Janvitos, claims to have also broken the Blu-ray's
| implementation of AACS.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/20/blu-ray-cracked-too/
AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?
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| Note: We're working on testing this ourselves, we'll report back
| with our findings asap.
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| [Thanks, Max and Adam]
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| Update: Well, it definitely does something. Click on for some
| pics and our experiences using the app.
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/
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/
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