Apple to Pivotal: Take the 'pod' out of Podium
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| Apple has issued a cease and desist letter to Pivotal, creators of Podium, a
| hands-free iPhone stand - namely over the use of the word "Pod" in Podium.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2009/03/18/apple-to-pivotal-take-the-pod-out-of-podium/
Maybe Apple should sue farmers unless they start calling "apples" something
else.
Recent:
Is DRM In Retreat?
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| Ed Felten has a post up noting that it appears DRM is in retreat, at least in
| certain areas, such as music. Of course, he points to Apple's agreement to
| get rid of DRM as a key factor -- but also notes that the former "DRM Watch"
| blog, from one of DRM's biggest supporters, is now called Copyright and
| Technology.
|
| http://techdirt.com/articles/20090123/0742383503.shtml
|
| Not A Music Industry Crisis -- It's A CD Crisis
|
| Hal Bringman has a writeup on Midem for Digital Media Wire, where he notes
| that the director of the event, Dominique Leguern, says that they're
| considering merging MidemNet into the wider Midem as the industry is evolving
| into a fully digital domain. Also, Leguern made a key point that plenty of
| people have been making for a while:
|
| "It's not a music industry crisis, it's a CD crisis."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090124/0814363512.shtml
The Fight Against the DRM
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| In fact, according to http://www.defectivebydesign.org/itunes-drm-free Apple
| still employs the DRM to restrict many of its other technologies:
|
|
| * DRM is used to lock iPhones to AT&T, and other networks around the
| world.
|
| * DRM is used to lock downloads from the App Store, even downloads at
| no-charge.
|
| * DRM is used to prevent iPod/iPhone being used with software other than
| iTunes.
|
| * DRM is used to prevent OS X from loading on generic PCs.
|
| * DRM is used to prevent the latest MacBook computers from working on
| certain types of monitor and HDTV.
|
| * DRM is used to keep accessory vendors for the iPod and iPhone limited
| to a subset of the devices features via an "authentication chip."
|
| * DRM is used to lock up movies, TV shows, ringtones and audiobooks
| purchased through the iTunes Store.
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http://oh-ex539.blogspot.com/2009/01/fight-against-drm.html
Lame: Apple Charging $0.30 Per Song To Ditch DRM
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| In the initial news about Apple going DRM-free, I saw it reported that Apple
| would let you convert your existing files to DRM-free. However, what was left
| out of the reports I saw (though, people in our comments pointed it out) was
| that Apple wants to charge you $0.30 for the privilege of getting rid of the
| DRM.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090106/1915023301.shtml
Apple copies Microsoft tactics in Itunes row
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| Sam Odio, operator of bluwiki, did what Jobs' Mob demanded only because he
| said he lacked the money to take on the fruit-themed toymaker.
|
| He told AP that, when a lawyer calls you up and implicitly threatens
| litigation that would bankrupt your little project, you obviously have no
| choice but to comply.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/apple-copies-microsoft-itunes
DRM is always anti-user
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| No user likes DRM. What Cory Doctorow said about Sony is really true for all
| DRM: “No Sony customer woke up one morning and said, “Damn, I wish Sony would
| devote some expensive engineering effort in order that I may do less with my
| music.”". Expanding the DRM acronym (to mean “digital restrictions
| management” or “digital rights management”) is a matter of what side you’re
| on. If you’re on the user’s side, the side that says you ought to be able to
| treat stuff you bought as your own, you’ll not forget that “digital rights
| management” is “private language” as well. It’s language that exists to
| promulgate the publisher’s perspective instead of the user’s perspective thus
| reframing the debate to getting us to believe that our needs are less
| important or completely ignorable. The thing that makes DRM interesting to
| publishers is how well it can restrict users from doing what users want to
| do. Hence digital restrictions management is a more honest way of looking at
| what DRM means.
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http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2008/11/28/drm-is-always-anti-user/
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
EFF: Apple DisplayPort DRM Will Lead to More Piracy
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| When Apple released its new MacBook and MacBook Pro models, as well as
| updated MacBook Air models, one feature of those latest laptops touted by
| Apple was their Mini DisplayPort video connection. This new connector is part
| of an open standard and is smaller than the DVI, mini-DVI, and micro-DVI
| ports found on the previous generation of Apple laptops. But there's one
| feature of the Mini DisplayPort on Apple laptops that isn't sitting well with
| many users--High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154583/.html?tk=rss_news
EFF Proposes DMCA Exemption for IPhone Jailbreaking
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| The U.S. Librarian of Congress is required to issue exemptions to the
| anti-circumvention clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the law
| that makes it a crime to work around encryption or Digital Rights Management
| protecting copyrighted materials. This year, among the exemptions proposed by
| the public is one that would make it legal for consumers to hack their phones
| (PDF link) via a process called jailbreaking, in order to install third-party
| applications available from sources other than Apple's App Store.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154915/.html?tk=rss_news
Apple swings DMCA at Hackintosh maker
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| Just two weeks after US District Judge William Alsup threw out wannabe
| Mac-clone vendor Psystar's countersuit against Apple, the One True Mac-Maker
| has un-holstered another weapon in its campaign to crush the Florida-based
| upstart.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/02/apple_psystar_dmca/
What might end Apple’s open source pass
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| Apple has replaced Microsoft as the chief foe of open source. (Picture from a
| student assignment sheet at Bodine High School in Pennsylvania.)
|
| This was in part a matter of necessity. Apple had to put DRM on its iPod or
| it would get nothing to sell. It had to become a big advocate of the DMCA to
| keep its suppliers.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3130
EFF Blasts Apple For Fraudulent DMCA Takedown Of Wiki Page
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| The EFF has stepped up to walk through the many, many reasons why there's no
| DMCA violation on the site, and Apple's takedown notice appears to be
| fraudulent. Yes, the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA do say it's
| illegal to offer a technology, product, service, device or device to get
| around DRM, but an open discussion on a wiki is not any of those things.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081125/2330182955.shtml
The Electronic Frontier Foundation Doesn't Like Apple's Attitude
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| I have to agree. Talk is talk. Encryption and other forms of code obfuscation
| are communally practiced throughout the worlds of proprietary and open source
| software. Also, encryption predates personal computers and Apple by many
| years. Where would security software end up if people were barred, directed
| by lawyers, from ever discussing methods of disguising code?
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http://ostatic.com/177097-blog/the-electronic-frontier-foundation-doesnt-like-apples-attitude
Apple Levels DMCA on IPodhash Project
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| The worst thing about DRM? The things it makes people do. Take the iPodhash
| project, a group of coders dedicated to reverse-engineering Apple's database
| files on the iPod classic and iPod touch. Doing so allows for third-party
| utilities to access information on the iPod, which is particularly useful for
| those who want to use their iPods on Linux, since there's no version of
| iTunes available for that platform.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154424/.html?tk=rss_news
EFF Berates Apple Over Open-source ITunes Project
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| Apple's attempt to quash an effort to help the latest iPods and iPhones work
| with non-Apple software such as the Linux operating system is out of line,
| the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Tuesday.
|
| [...]
|
| Because iTunes does not run on Linux, the iPodhash project is important to
| the Linux community, Odio said.
|
| Founded in 2004, Bluwiki is a side project for Odio, an Internet entrepreneur
| who said he supports the iPodhash project even though he's not involved with
| it.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154533/eff_berates_apple.html?tk=rss_news
Anti-DRM campaign calls for MacBook boycott
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| Each day for the next 35 days, the "Defective by Design" campaign by the Free
| Software Foundation (FSF) will name and shame a different product it says
| consumers should boycott because of the use of Digital Rights Management
| (DRM). The FSF has launched its campaign with an attack on Apple. Although
| Apple boss Steve Jobs spoke out against the use of DRM in iTunes Store in
| early 2007, most of the music sold through Apple's online shop still comes
| with Apple's FairPlay DRM. The iPhone and iPod Touch have been criticised by
| the FSF on a number of occasions for adding "even more layers of DRM". With
| its new MacBooks, Apple takes protection even further.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/119625
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,
|
| [...]
|
| 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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