Online music distributors: song licensing a painful and expensive process
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| At a breakout session for the Future of Music Policy Summit in DC this week,
| online music distributors complained that licensing music for digital retail
| is still far too complicated, and blamed this complication for the paucity of
| online distribution outside of the US market.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070920-song-licensing-still-a-painful-and-expensive-process-say-online-music-distributors.html
http://tinyurl.com/2g5vy7
Study Says DRM Violates Canadian Privacy Law
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| The study indicated that DRM is being used to collect, use and disclose
| consumers' personal information for secondary purposes.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137404-c,mp3players/article.html
Burn Once, DRM After DVDs Coming
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| The resultant movies will play in any approved player that allows playback of
| CSS "protected" content..
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| I smell a rootkit. Don't you? I wonder how they think they're going to
| perpetrate this in Linux?
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/9/20/27222
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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
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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