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A Closer Look at Digital Rights Management
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| Earlier this year, the last of the four major music labels offered its
| respective catalog for digital download to Amazon.com's music service in the
| MP3 format with no digital copy protections, giving users the ability to
| freely transfer songs to any portable MP3 music player. Afterwards,
| commentators said that the music company's decision was an attempt to
| diversify the music downloading market away from Apple's iTunes. Also, it was
| said that DRM, or digital rights management, was dead in the music business.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202426117792
Recent:
Apple's new MacBooks have built-in copy protection measures
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| Apple's new MacBook lines include a form of digital copy protection that will
| prevent protected media, such as DRM-infused iTunes movies, from playing back
| on devices that aren't compliant with the new priority protection measures.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/18/apples_new_macbooks_have_built_in_copy_protection_measures.html
MP3 Store Guide: ‘Don’t buy DRM’ (like iTunes)
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| Yesterday korporate download sites HMV, Woolworths, 7digital, Digitalstores,
| Tescodigital, Tunetribe, and Play.co launched a new ‘100% MP3 compatible’
| logo devised by the Entertainment Retailers Association.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17493
Related:
A Linux User's Perspective on the ITunes Store (and DRM in General)
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| What if tomorrow you went to Best Buy or Walmart or Sam Goody and purchased a
| CD? What if, before you left the store, the salesman told you that although
| the CD was in all other respects a standard CD, that you could only play it
| if you owned a Pioneer or Sony stereo? Would that make any sense? Would it
| make you a bit hesitant about buying music from that store again?
|
| Well, if you purchase music or videos from the iTunes Store,
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| [...]
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| With content from the iTunes Store, however, users may find themselves a bit
| stuck if they ever want to make the switch to a more open computing platform,
| such as Linux. Because none of the DRM-restricted content from the iTunes
| Store will play on Linux. And it's all because that's how Apple wants it, to
| be honest, and not because of any technical limitation.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/324936/a_linux_users_perspective_on_the_itunes.html
Apple's latest trick to enforce digital rights
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| With this version of iTunes, users were finding that music
| subjected to the old download-burn-rip would no longer
| load onto their iPods.
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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/06/09/10131156.html
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