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DRM: Digital Rights Restrictions - Richard Stallman Viewpoint: Video Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is an all-too-pervasive means by which the manufacturers of hardware and software - including music and video - place restrictions upon the people that buy it from them. If you have ever downloaded a music track from iTunes, or a ... read more | cat.: DRM | Link | Comment Robin Good & Michael Pick -- February 24

Computer Security: Trusted Computing Initiative Sets You As Your Own Computer Worst Threat - Protection Or Menace? Trusted computing is a set of open specifications based on the idea that computer security can be achieved by implementing a particular microchip (called Trusted Platform Module), whose task is to allow users to install and utilize only “trusted” software (which is software that has been ... read more | cat.: DRM | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare -- February 2

Online Book Publishing: Issues And Problems Restraining Electronic Books Publishers Distribution Strategies The buzz this week is about Google's plans to offer eBook downloads for PCs and mobile devices. Great news, but will this allow the book industry to wrestle out of the stranglehold of a mass of conflicting delivery technologies and DRM strategies? Photo credit: Sony eBook ... read more | cat.: DRM | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- February 1

Microsoft Office Potential Distribution Channel For Small Independent Publishers? An interesting juxtaposition in the headlines today: as Microsoft announces its launch of a tool to embed Creative Commons content licensing information in works created via Microsoft Office, CNET news covers growing opposition to the way Microsoft is implementing its Windows Genuine Advantage software anti-piracy tools. Link | cat.: DRM John Blossom - Shore -- June 22

Mac Security: The Evil DRM Chip Is Bolted Inside The New Intel Macs? Mac security? DRM protection and trusted computing enabling chip is found to be wired inside the new Intel-based Macs while no official statement, documentation or press release tells consumers about its existence. Paolo Attivissimo reports: I have been silent, up to now, on the new Macs with Intel ... read more | cat.: DRM | Link | Comment Paolo Attivissimo - attivissimo.blog -- April 5

Trusted Computing + Microsoft = Windows Vista "The same system that prevents worms and viruses from running on your computer might also stop you from using any legitimate software that your hardware or operating system vendor simply doesn't like. The same system that protects spyware from accessing your data files might also stop Link | cat.: DRM Bruce Schneier - ZDNet UK -- September 2

DRM Is Not Protection From Piracy: Is Protection From Competition WARNING: THIS DEVICE'S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD'S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR ... read more | cat.: DRM | Link | Comment Cory Doctorow - http://www.boingboing.net/ -- January 4

How Wireless Could Stop 'Piracy' And Doom DRM And Microsoft TCPA/NGSCB Strategy Don't worry about DRM and lock-down computing. Historically they're doomed to fail. The former director of Geffen's technology group believes that wireless networks such as 3G, 4G and WiFi will provide the tipping point at which the entertainment industries come to the table to cut a ... read more | cat.: DRM | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Stephen Downes OL Daily -- February 13

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