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DRM: a word which has entered a rather short time ago in the IT vocabulary but has ever since generated strong passions and fierce theoretical and legal battles among those involved in the media industry. The Digital Rights Management policies embedded in different types of media have stirred things up so hard becaus... |
23 January 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Once, Apple had a dream. That dream was to bring power to the people and give them a better choice, saving them from the darkness of the command line. Today, more and more people become their faithful followers, and things would be just fine, if some matters were treated a bit differently by the Cupertino-based compa... |
25 January 2007
04:22 GMT |
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Steve Jobs made his thoughts public on the online music industry yesterday. The Apple CEO talks about how and why music on the iTunes Store is protected by the DRM technology. Jobs also evaluates future options regarding the digital rights management (DRM) for his company and its two major competitors, namely Microso... |
7 February 2007
06:48 GMT |
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Yep, it is the second big all-time hit from the legendary Beatles, only this time it's been made without their will or knowledge. The 15-year contract with Apple has expired and this triggered it all. Steve Jobs CEO at Apple Inc. has made declarations which shook the music industry and yes, they were related to ... |
7 February 2007
09:32 GMT |
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What started off earlier this week as Steve Jobs' "Thoughts On Music" may turn out to be a revolution in media material sales. Jobs' open letter was a plead for DRM-free music sales and he said Apple would happily ditch their proprietary solution FairPlay as soon as the music industry's four major comp... |
9 February 2007
07:10 GMT |
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Steve Jobs has really set the music industry aflame with his public statements last week and now, apart from rejecting it as they would have done before such a declaration, the big 4, the major records companies seem to be setting on a non-DRM trend.While the public has disagreed with the DRM restrictions from the ve... |
13 February 2007
05:00 GMT |
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Columnist Bill Thompson gave us yet another reason to talk about Steve Jobs when on Monday he posted his thoughts on what's really happening in the music industry, mainly regarding Apple, Steve Jobs and their DRM solution, FairPlay.After reading the journalist's column, several thoughts came to my mind. Fir... |
14 February 2007
03:44 GMT |
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I feel like "Happy-happy, joy-joy-joy!" from a cartoon years ago as I have read the news this morning and noticed that Yahoo Music is definitely willing to sell DRM-free tracks online by Christmas. Of course, this is but a small step towards the really free music market we want to have (once more) and Yahoo is so far... |
14 February 2007
03:56 GMT |
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Executives from the two companies announced they fully support the abolition of digital rights management that was suggested at the beginning of this month by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in the open letter called "Thoughts on music". In this letter, Jobs clearly stated they will not open up FairPlay and that the way to go ... |
14 February 2007
06:15 GMT |
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Yep, as I have stated above, Mr. Fred (Amoroso, that is) of Macrovision sucks. I don't know whether this open response letter was his idea or he was somehow forced or tricked into releasing such crap but any way, it was another proof of the company's irresponsibility as far as sniffing the main flow of opin... |
17 February 2007
04:11 GMT |
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