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Software doubles P2P file sharing speeds
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| Ono is open source and does not demand the deployment of additional
| infrastructure. Since it was made freely and publicly available in March
| 2007, the software has been downloaded by more than 150,000 users.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/75287,software-doubles-p2p-file-sharing-speeds.aspx
Digital Rights Management (DRM): is it in its death throes?
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| Many end users, both Windows and GNU/Linux, hate DRM, for both technical and
| political reasons. Hackers too hate it and have consistently broken and
| defeated its security measures. It seems that this is having some effect at
| last. The purveyors of DRM are now beginning finally to realise that there is
| simply no such thing as one hundred per cent security, and that unless you
| don’t actually release the software containing the security feature(s), it
| will always been out in the wild and fair game for hacking. It may be that
| the DRM edifice is crumbling at last. This may be motivated by a recognition
| that it is a futile exercise trying to keep ahead of the hackers or simply a
| realisation that there is perhaps actually more money to be made from freeing
| their software from the encumbrances of DRM. Either way it is good news and
| that will be the subject matter of a future article.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/digital_rights_management_drm_it_its_death_throws
The RIAA wants DRM back. They want people to rent music, not own it (taking
away rights and selling them back).
Recent:
EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN
| Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an
| apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the
| Zune music player.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9931304-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
Torvalds pleased that DRM music is dying
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| Linus Torvalds, coordinator of the Linux kernel, is pleased that music
| publishers have started selling more DRM-free music -- last year he said the
| technology was a lot of "hot air".
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Torvalds-pleased-that-DRM-music-is-dying/0,130061733,339285934,00.htm?feed=rss
Microsoft ready to play with PlayReady
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| Microsoft is proudly showing off its PlayReady technology at MWC, but woe
| betide anyone who describes it as a DRM platform.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/playready_drm/
Embarrassed by DRM
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| The point behind all this is, of course, to conceal the very existence of DRM
| from the user..
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| Ergo, we need to shout about the presence of DRM from the rooftops: the more
| people know about it, the more they will dislike it, as Microsoft well
| understands....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/embarrassed-by-drm.html
Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to Certified For Windows Vista, confuses world
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| Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM just took another step closer to the grave with
| the help of some rebranding.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/microsoft-rebrands-playsforsure-to-certified-for-windows-vista/
Microsoft: We Like DRM
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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
Microsoft Tells Apple To Stop Complaining About DRM
http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/04/13/microsoft-apple-drm/
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
Avoid the Vista badge, it means DRM inside
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| The root of this crappy DRM infection is Microsoft. It is the driving
| force here. This has nothing to do with protecting content, as we
| keep pointing out, there has never been a single thing that has had
| a DRM infection applied that didn't end up cracked on the net in
| hours. DRM is about walled gardens and control.
|
| He who controls the DRM infection controls the market. DRM is
| about preventing you from doing anything with the devices
| without paying the gatekeeper a fee. This is what MS wants,
| nothing less than a slice of everything watched, listened to
| or discussed from now on. DRM prevents others from playing
| there, thanks to the DMCA and other anti-consumer laws.
|
| Make no mistake, MS is pushing the DRM malware as hard as
| it can so it can rake in money hand over fist with no
| competition. It is really good at lock-in, in fact, the firm
| based its entire business model on harming the user so they
| have to comply and spend more.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38926
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.
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| 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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