Posts Tagged with ‘drm’

The Web is abuzz with talk over who in the Apple-NBC debacle is the worst off for the planned severance to come next week, when The Peacock’s fall programming has its public debut. Profy’s very own Cyndy Aleo-Carreira covered the news soon after it broke, and now we receive word that, following its exit from the iTunes shop, NBC has tapped Amazon for the distribution of its content for the season ahead. So we figured we’d pick the story apart [...]

The news many weeks back of music giant EMI’s transfer to a DRM-free existence on the Web, and the subsequent decision by Universal Music Group that came only days ago to do the same with its catalogue, has been accepted with (mostly) open arms by the blogosphere. Yes, there are some particulars concerning where the tracks have been chosen to be sold and whether the switch is temporary or in fact a permanent one that have kept a number of [...]

DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is an invention the rational and sane of the world wish never came to be. It’s been a crutch for many in the music industry that’s brought about numerous negative consequences for all involved in its establishment, from its pioneers to its consumers. The latest example of its ill effect on the digital space is the unsavory fallout surrounding the decision by Google to shut down its Google Video division to focus exclusively on the [...]

When it comes to the social side of Web 2.0 – you know, the MySpaces, the Facebooks – I’m lost. I do very well understand why such places exist, I simply cannot for the life of me grasp why they’ve become so popular, and, furthermore, managed to remain so. Baffling, really. When I consider all the time misspent maintaining relations with “friends” lists, most of whose contacts hold no real allegiance to one another anyhow, I wonder how such holes [...]

Two stories concerning Universal Music emerged recently. One, an ongoing tale concerning the continuous threats of lawsuits level at Veoh by the media giant, which has in turn led a very peeved and exasperated Veoh to throw back a counter suit in which the video startup is seeking “a declaratory injunction to bar Universal from taking legal action” against the site. Another, making the rounds in the media just this morning, about the music group’s intention to “test the digital [...]

The BBC recently announced their upcoming iPlayer, an on-demand video player that will allow users to watch BBC television broadcasts seven days after they are aired. iPlayer has been in development since 2003, and you'd think that with that kind of development cycle, they could have clued in to see that times were changing.
The problem? The iPlayer relies on Microsoft's DRM technology, which means if you aren't running a Microsoft operating system, you are out of luck. No Linux or [...]

Say what one will about The Pirate Bay. There?s something to be said about the operation?s audacity in the face of massive opposition by regulatory (industry-backed, to boot) bodies like the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
Despite repeated demands to filter out the illegal from its servers, The Pirate Bay has almost never ceased to provide a venue in which Netizens from around the world can share content (both copyrighted [...]

DRM isn’t so much a product of Web 2.0 as it is its nemesis. Web 2.0 is very much an open space. DRM is very, very closed. That alone should be reason enough to send cumbersome copy protection off to the gallows.
Which Amazon pledges to do. (Pardon the terrible opener and subsequent segway.)
Today in the news: The largest of online retail giants intends to offer only DRM-free music downloads. Big story. Perhaps even more so than Apple’s recent [...]

DRM, or digital rights management, has been relegated to the status of agitator and unwanted by the majority of media consumers around the world, yet its proponents continue to take consumers to be unknowledgeable; that guys behind DRM in fact know better than the people they market to.
And after Net-based hoodlums took it upon themselves to plaster an HD-DVD encryption-breaking code across many, many domains, most notably Digg.com, the folks intent on seeing DRM take root and flourish [...]