AnyDVD removes Blu-Ray DRM
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| Well, actually it is better than that, with a month to go, the
| Blu-Ray support is here and it is not beta, it is real. Version
| 6.1.3.0 does a lot, the biggest one is to strip the evil DRM
| infection from Blu-Ray and restore your fair use rights.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38017
Barenaked Ladies: New Album. Free. No DRM. Now.
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| The songs will only be free through the first few downloads, and
| will start to rise after that. But even at full price, listeners
| are getting quality music, DRM-free. Let?s hope other labels
| follow Nettwerk shortly. Market driven prices and no DRM =
| Music Nirvana.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/05/barenaked-ladies-new-album-free-no-drm-now/
Related:
An Economic Explanation For Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Model
Opportunities
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| DRM is fundamentally opposed to this concept. It is not increasing
| value for the consumer in any way, but about limiting it. It takes
| the non-scarce goods, the very thing that helps increase value, and
| constrains them. Those non-scarce goods are what increase the pie
| and open up new opportunities for those who know where to capture
| the monetary rewards of that value (within other limited resources).
| DRM, on the other hand, holds back that value and prevents it from
| being realized. It shrinks the pie -- and no successful business
| models come out of providing less value and shrinking the overall
| pie. Fundamentally, DRM cannot create a successful new business
| model. It can only contain one.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070301/005837.shtml
iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content
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| BitTorrent Inc president and co-founder, Ashwin Navin says that iTunes'
| DRM is "a time bomb waiting to happen," and that it will inspire
| people to pirate content. The irony is that his company is about to
| launch a video store that heavily implements Microsoft?s Windows DRM.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-itunes-drm-inspires-people-to-pirate-content/
MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
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| The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
| to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
| home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
| consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
| a simple digital-rights-management solution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061016/tc_zd/191502
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-itunes-drm-inspires-people-to-pirate-content/
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
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| 1) The product they want--electronic texts--are hard to find, and
| thus valuable.
|
| 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair
| amount of money to be saved by stealing them.
|
| 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances
| that the illegal version is better to begin with.
|
| Those are the three conditions that will create widespread
| electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination.
| Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that
| create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.
|
| And . . .
|
| Guess what? It's precisely those three conditions that DRM
| creates in the first place. So far from being an impediment
| to so-called "online piracy," it's DRM itself that keeps
| fueling it and driving it forward.
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http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6
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