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  | DRM Not Dead, Just Temporarily Indisposed, Says RIAA Tech Head Found at 5/9/2008 via 
The RIAA’s head technology guy says that the move away from DRM (anti-copying) technology by record labels is just a phase, according to a Greg Sandoval story at News.com:“(Recently) I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still require DRM,” said David Hughes, who heads up the RIAA’s [...] More...
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| EA relents on cumbersome DRM for new PC games Found at 5/9/2008 via www.news.com
EA gives up on clunky DRM. More...
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| DRM Not Dead, Just Temporarily Indisposed, Says RIAA Tech Head Found at 5/9/2008 via feeds.freedom-to-tinker.com
The RIAA’s head technology guy says that the move away from DRM (anti-copying) technology by record labels is just a phase, according to a Greg Sandoval story at News.com:“(Recently) I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still require DRM,” said David Hughes, who heads up the RIAA’s [...] More...
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| Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom launches DRM Free download service Found at 5/9/2008 via www.digitimes.com
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on May 8 announced the launch of DRM Free, a service allowing users to download MP3 songs that are free of digital rights management from CHT's emome online mobile service platform. More...
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| Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Oct 2005 16:25 UTC Found at 5/9/2008 via www.osnews.com
"Sun Microsystems must have figured digital rights management never sounded so good when it recently announced a call for partners in its quest to use open source DRM to "compensate rights holders and stimulate innovation," but Sun's open DReaM (DRM everywhere available) Project is as scary as any other content control nightmare to open source and digital freedom proponents." More...
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| DRM alive and kicking Found at 5/9/2008 via www.theinquirer.net
DESPITE BEING HATED , causing its members legal woes, and not actually working, the Recording Industry Association of America wants to bring back DRM. More...
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| Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Feb 2006 21:15 UTC Found at 5/9/2008 via www.newmobilecomputing.com
Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, has fleshed out his unhappiness with GPLv3 in three recent posts on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Torvalds previously stated that the kernel will remain under the licensing terms of GPLv2 . Yesterday, Torvalds offered his opinion as to where the battle over DRM should take place. More...
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| Widevine's Protection Found at 5/9/2008 via www.lightreading.com
12:00 PM -- Widevine Technologies Inc. is in the business of content protection, but on its media page , as of this writing, the DRM software vendor displays: More...
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| Digital Rights Management Coming Back, RIAA Predicts Found at 5/8/2008 via www.gigalaw.com
News of DRM's death has been greatly exaggerated, according to an executive with the Recording Industry Association of America. More...
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| DRM: it's like those zombie movies Found at 5/8/2008 via blogs.cnet.com
No matter how many times the content owners wish it worked, DRM has a fundamental technical flaw: you have to give the key to the person you're trying to lock out! Microsoft gets this, even if the RIAA doesn't. More...
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| RIAA: DRM likely revived by subscriptions Found at 5/8/2008 via www.macnn.com
Regardless of the movement towards permanent unprotected downloads in online music, digital rights management (DRM) is likely to persist and may also thrive in the near future, the Recording Industry Association of America said today at a Los Angeles media conference. The music organization's technology head David Hughes observes that nearly all s... More...
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| Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Aug 2005 18:30 UTC Found at 5/8/2008 via www.osnews.com
The RIAA and MPAA want DRM, and short of legislation, you are not going stop them. I would have to agree. More...
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| WeLoveFreeMusic.com offers guess what? Free music Found at 5/8/2008 via www.geek.com
This week in New York, music manager and hedge fund operator Steve Nowack held a press conference to announce a new record label. The new label, called SOS Records, sets itself apart from most other record labels by offering all their music for free as MP3 downloads without DRM restrictions. Present at the press conference and [...] More...
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| If music DRM is dead, the RIAA expects its resurrection Found at 5/8/2008 via arstechnica.com
Many believe that DRM in music is dead, but the RIAA disagrees. The majority of music still utilizes DRM, the organization argues, and shifting business models means that DRM is poised for a comeback. Read More... More...
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| @ Needham Digital Media Con: Interview: David Pakman, CEO, eMusic: 'Adults Still Buy Music' Found at 5/8/2008 via biz.yahoo.com
For a while there, eMusic was notable as the online music retailer that didn't have DRM, but that differentiator is pretty much gone. During a panel on the 'long tail' at the Needham Internet and Digital Media Conference, eMusic CEO David Pakman argued that his site appealed to adults, and that adults still spend money on music, unlike kids. More...
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