Others, including John Higgins, director general of IT industry group Intellect, see DRM purely as a facilitator which should not be confused with the politics surrounding copyright law and business issues.
Unfortunately, DRM and open-source software are today largely incompatible because of an extension to copyright law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," Fink said. Digital rights management (DRM) uses encryption to protect proprietary...
Apple's dominant iPod works with songs purchased on iTunes - the dominant online media store - and with tracks that are not copy protected but it doesn't play songs that are protected by Sony's or Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM...
Dream is open source software governed by Sun's Community Development and Distribution License - the same licence it uses to cover its OpenSolaris operating system. After years of work, Sun Microsystems has begun trying to rally corporate allies...
A hacker has broken Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) system which is designed to protect the copyright of audio files. The author has published a detailed explanation of MS DRM weaknesses on the internet and his views on the American...
Apig also recommends the government does not legislate to make DRM systems mandatory. While such labelling would be an important step towards protecting the rights of consumers, it falls some way short of moves afoot in France where the government...
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