Posts under "DRM"

Nokia believes in DRM…

Posted in DRM on October 8th, 2008

Just days after Wal*Mart fully shutdown it's DRM music service…nokia is set to start one up!

Not learning from the collapse and turnaround of many other online stores, Nokia is launching a DR…

Wal-Mart DRM server shutdown

Posted in DRM on September 30th, 2008

DRMed music is never a good thing for us here at DMF, and here is a Great example of why.

Wal-Mart, up until recently, ran a DRM based music download service, before eventually switching to a drm-fre…

Yahoo transitions to Rhapsody

Posted in DRM on July 30th, 2008

yahoo music Unlimited is shutting down; probably due to too much competiton, and the fact that DRM services other than iTunes are really just not working too well anymore.

There was much questionin…

Napster goes DRM free

Posted in DRM on May 20th, 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 …

Amazon to offer DRM-free music from Sony

Posted in DRM on January 14th, 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 downlo…

MediaNet Licenses Over One Million DRM-Free Songs

Posted in DRM, Retail on August 30th, 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 …

Universal Sells MP3s and Rebels From Apple

Posted in Apple, Companies, DRM, Industry, Retail on August 15th, 2007

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 …

DRM-Free Done Better

Posted in Companies, DRM, Marketing on August 3rd, 2007

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 $1.0…

Media Center DRM – Now With More Bugs!

Posted in Companies, DRM, Privacy & Security, Technology on July 31st, 2007

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 a…

"Effective": It Means What it Says

Posted in DRM, International, Legal on July 25th, 2007

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 it'…