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by Jordan Grodecki on May 20, 2008
In a pleasing move to the digital music world, we have learnt that Napster, probably the second biggest digital music service, has gone completely DRM free by transcoding it's entire library to...
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by Emily Price on January 14, 2008
Amazon has announced that it will be adding DRM-free downloads from Sony BMG Music Entertainment later on this month, a move that will make them the only online retailer to offer DRM-free music...
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, Retail
by Marc on August 30, 2007
MediaNet, formerly named MusicNet, will offer more than one million songs without DRM. MediaNet joins iTunes and other retail music sites that have started selling open MP3 music files. MediaNet also...
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Universal Music Group jumped past rival EMI and juggernaut Apple to sell digital music without DRM (Digital Rights Management) to consumers. The files will be in open MP3 format that can be used on...
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London-based online music store 7digital now sells DRM-free tunes from major label EMI, similar to an offering from Passalong Networks. While pricing is similar to iTunes (7digital has songs at $1.08...
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A recent controversy over Microsoft Windows Media Center has highlighted the perils of DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM uses secured formats that can cause incompatibilities with other hardware...
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A Finnish Court rules that effective means effective. The issue is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the European counterpart, the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), which says...
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Shared Media Licensing's (SML) Weedshare, an early digital music service, has suspended operations. Weedshare was smoked by Microsoft, whose latest version of Windows Media Player was...
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It makes sense. Music without restrictions should be more popular. But is that what really happens? Yes, so far. EMI says that sales for music without DRM is significantly better than sales with it...
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Consumers are strongly reacting negatively to DRM. But here will always be situations where it's better accepted, such as for business and hard-to-share content. I wrote about this in "The...
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HBO Chief Technology Officer Bob Zitter, auditioning for a role as Chief Marketing Officer for RIAA, said the term Digital Rights Management (DRM) disparages the industry's good intentions as it...
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Apple iTunes will be selling top music without DRM. But that doesn't mean the files will be MP3. Apple is using AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). AAC uses newer technology that provides similar...
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Or you can get them free and unauthorized from P2P. That's the lesson from the news that EMI is indeed pushing ahead with open format music. DRM-free tunes will be available on Apple iTunes in...
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We earlier reported on tantalizing progress to remove customer-unfriendly and customer-avoiding DRM on digital music files. Not so quick. ... Major label EMI floated the concept to larger retailers...
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, DRM
by Marc on March 20, 2007
A DRM developer wrote to me concerned about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' anti-DRM support, and the role and future of DRM. My response has been broken into a few digestible parts of the next few days....
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, DRM
by Marc on March 16, 2007
A DRM developer wrote to me concerned about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' anti-DRM support, and the role and future of DRM. My response has been broken into a few digestible parts of the next few days....
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, DRM
by Marc on March 14, 2007
A DRM developer wrote to me concerned about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' anti-DRM support, and the role and future of DRM. My response has been broken into a few digestible parts of the next few days....
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, Major Labels
by Marc on February 27, 2007
The Wall Street Journal reported that major recording label EMI contacted major online music stores with a plan to remove DRM security from files. Open format files would be able to be copied and...
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs issued an open letter calling for the entertainment industry to move to the open MP3 format. He wrote "If the big four music companies would license Apple their music...
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