Sony settles with FTC in rootkit case
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| Proposed agreement includes barring Sony BMG from installing copy
| protection software on CDs without users' consent.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6154655.html
There was a proposal in England not so long ago that pushed for labelling
DRM-infected media. Maybe the same can/should be applied to infected
software and devices. These are anti-consumer, so they require awareness,
before relinquishining basic rights.
DRM won't last for long anyway. It could even hurt Vista and Mac OS. Linux
will welcome DRM-hostile people, as well as bitter DRM 'refugees' who
realise they can no longer play the music/video they once paid/re-paid for.
Related:
Apple DRM illegal in Norway: Ombudsman
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| Apple's digital rights management lock on its iPod device and iTunes
| software is illegal, the Consumer Ombudsman in Norway has ruled. The
| blow follows the news that Germany and France are joining Norway's
| action against Apple.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/24/apple_drm_illegal_in_norway/
Record labels rethink digital rights management at Midem
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| Now that even digital music revenue growth is faltering amid
| rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are
| closer than ever to releasing music on the Internet with no
| copying restrictions -- a step they once vowed never
| to take.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/21/yourmoney/music.php
Independent record labels sign Web distribution deal
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| The downloads will be sold in the MP3 format, meaning they can be
| played on any portable music player including the iPod. Apple's iTunes
| can be used only with an iPod while music from such popular services
| as Napster and Rhapsody cannot be played on the mass-selling device.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6151854.html
VirginMega adopts DRM-free MP3 on its music store
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| VirginMega.fr, by Lagardere, is adding more than 200,000 tracks
| available in the MP3 256k format. So far, the store only offered
| Microsoft's PlayForSure WMA 192k tracks, and only made a few
| tracks available as an experiment in a similar way as Yahoo did.
| However, France is the first country where a full-DRM store adopts
| MP3 on a large scale.
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http://www.djing.com/news/1926/virginmega-adopts-drm-free-mp3-on-its-music-store/
EMI abandons CD DRM
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| EMI has announced that it will no longer infect its CDs with DRM. I
| remember just a few years ago when an EMI customer-service rep sent
| an email to an irate customer promising that every CD in Europe would
| have DRM within a decade.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/08/emi_abandons_cd_drm.html
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
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
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/
Sony 'deceived' on music
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| Sony has been convicted of misleading the French public and told
| to pay damages to a consumer watchdog for selling downloadable
| songs that only run on its own music players.
|
| France's Union Federale des Consommateurs (UFC) took Sony's
| French and British subsidiaries to court in February 2005 over
| the music download site Sony Connect. The lawsuit also targets
| Apple, maker of the popular iPod, whose case is expected to
| reach the courts later this year.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21026144%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y7hk7w
Who's Killing MP3 and ITunes?
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| 1. The labels don't have a choice
| 2. Apple might be forced into interoperability
| 3. Thomson has endorsed selling watermarked MP3
| 4. Amazon is rumored to start selling MP3s by April
| 5. Sony: "DRMs are going to become less important"
| 6. People love AllofMP3.com
| 7. MP3 has future options
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http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72412-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1
Apple faces suit over iPod-iTunes link
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| As if its options woes weren't trouble enough, Apple Computer Inc.
| said Friday it is facing several federal lawsuits, including one
| alleging the company created an illegal monopoly by tying iTunes
| music and video sales to its market-leading iPod portable players.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_hi_te/apple_lawsuits
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