Archive for the ‘DRM’ Category
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Over at Manifest Density, Tom has a couple interesting posts up arguing that the success of Blu-Ray in our marketplace should not be taken as proof that it's a "better" technology than HD DVD, as many seem to have contended.
Megan's right [as stated here] that I and a lot of ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
In a filing with the FCC (pdf), Comcast claims that, thanks to market competition and blogging watchdogs, there is no need for regulatory intervention to protect net neutrality.
The company's recent discrimination against peer-to-peer traffic is the cause of the hearing. Last August, Comcast denied the charges (which were first documented ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
The Wired blog Underwire appears ready to declare music-protecting DRM dead in light of Sony BMG's decision to begin selling some tracks in the unprotected MP3 format.
Since Sony was the last holdout among the big four record labels, this is indeed big news; that said, I remain skeptical that the ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
In two different news stories summarizing the latest Nielsen Soundscan music sales report, the music industry is cast as growing at a remarkable clip or continuing its long, slow decline.
Variety takes the latter tack, moaning, "Album sales take a tumble in 2007." In contrast, the Centre Daily Times celebrates the ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
US News interviewed a handful of cutting-edge tech gurus, asking them, "What if you were appointed innovation czar?"
Three themes run through the answers:
1) Portable, especially universal health care. People stay in uninspiring jobs because they need the health insurance. Provide this automatically, and risk takers are free to start new ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Lok just emailed me Wellington Grey's hilarious DMCA slideshow. It's positively hi-larious.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Internet users in France who use their connections to violate copyright law may lose their connections under a new policy announced this week.
In a three-way deal between internet service providers, the French government, and copyright holders, those accused of infringement will receive warnings from their ISPs. If they are identified ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
As we reported earlier, Section 494 of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (pdf) would turn colleges into copyright cops. Now, the bill is in front of the full House thanks to a unanimous committee vote in its favor.
The section (on pp. 411-413 of the draft above) requires ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Two Democratic chairs of key House committees introduced a bill yesterday that would require colleges to police copyright and pay off the entertainment industry.
Buried on pages 411 and 412 of the 747-page bill, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (pdf), is the following:
Each eligible institution participating in any ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Here's the other big copyright story of the day: Apple Cuts Price on DRM-Free Music to 99 Cents.
This race to disarm is reminiscent of the 1980s, when the software industry flirted with command-and-control digital rights management technologies, only to realize they were punishing customers and therefore losing more business than ...
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