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• 11.29.07
  There’s something wrong with my car DRM | (4)

  I live in Norway. A place where you're not allowed to drive more than 100 km/h on any of our roads. Still, the speedometer of my car goes all the way to 220 km/h and according to Toyota's official specs for my Rav4 it has a max speed of 185 km/h. Driving at that speed on Norwegian roads would be both dangerous and utterly illegal. Illegal to the point that they would put me in jail. I bought the car in Norway. It's registered and fully official. This isn't an illegal pirate car. I can roam around Norwegian streets with it. ...
• 07.09.07
  5½ lessons that legitimate retailers can learn from pirates DRM, law, piracy, rights | (3)

  Sadly, the story about how Bob the Millionaire Became a pirate is still highly relevant. And not long ago Mark Pilgrim had an article out that describes a couple of lessons that the professional part of the industry could learn from the pirates. Well worth a read. A story to show the problem If you have two shops down the street. One sell illegal copies of movies and one sell legal originals. The shop with the illegal copies work like this: you go inside, find what you want, have a look at it, pay and go home. At home you play the movie ...
• 04.02.07
  Seems like DRM is dying Apple, DRM, emi, itunes | (3)

  EMI to offer DRM free high quality music for sale. From the press release: EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire. Apple's iTunes store to be the first online music store to sell EMI's new downloads. As most of my regular readers know I don't like DRM so this is good news. Very good news. Now, will this spread to the other big record companies? Will this influence new efforts like Amie Street and Sellaband? What about eMusic? And, what about the television industry and hollywood? And that Vista slow suicide? Seems like DRM free video downloads still ...
• 02.27.07
  Interesting alternative to DRM DRM, video | (8)

  Streamburst is a company that helps people making video content available for sale on the internet. The files are without DRM and will play on most devices out there. What they have done to discourage people from making the files available all over the internet is that the copy you get is personalized. They mark the file with the name on the credit card used to pay for the download. Both as a three second tag in the beginning of the movie and as an invisible watermark through the file. I guess it is possible to remove this watermark just like it ...
• 01.14.07
  Vista, DRM and the slow suicide DRM, Microsoft, sony, vista | (10)

  As you already know, I don't like DRM. It seems like the next version of Windows will be full of it. Full of DRM and huge amounts of technology that is supposed to make it more "secure". Or, to put it straight: limit you and what you can do with your computer. Cory Doctorow is a clever writer and again he has put some words on the situation: Vista is a disaster. Microsoft is so desperate to get the entertainment industry locked into its platform that they'll destroy themselves to get there. This is an operating system that, when idle, will ...
• 12.09.06
  DRM is a stupid idea DRM | (6)

  My article on music and marketing sparked a little debate about digital rights management (DRM). I am in the opinion that DRM is in general a bad idea. It doesn't work. It's not user friendly. And the only people it serves are the owners of the DRM systems that can lock people into their particular playback devices. Like Oyvind point out in the comments here it's not the end of the world. It's not global warming or bird flu. But it's annoying and limiting for the development of good distribution platforms and user friendly systems on digital media. And because there are ...
• 09.02.06
  Windows Media DRM - Cracked! DRM, Media, Microsoft | (0)

  For quite some time there has been some tools that would let you strip the DRM from encrypted Windows Media files. However, they have been difficult to use and have not worked on all systems. Now a user called viodentia over at the Doom9 forums has posted a tool called FairUse4WM. It lets you remove the DRM from files that you have a valid license for on your computer. Meaning that you can now safely buy music on all the Windows Media Based music shops and easily "set it free" so you can play it on whatever device you ...

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