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more about #digitalrightsmanagement more comments → Zipthebunny: sorry, but i thought you could DL a book as many times as you wanted once you paid for it?....from the amazon kindle page "Automatic Library Backup: D... more » Monty: Think of all of the people employed to make all of these incompatible products. In an economy like we have today, we really should be embracing the c... more » KJA: You forgot to mention how to break the DRM, if this explaination included "EVERYTHING" you wanted to know. I want to know how to break Fairplay DRM sp... more » Gann: Not quite "Everything You Wanted To Know About DRM", or it'd include a viable business model for the future of entertainment. more » jackjumper: "but then again, it's not as easy to rip a stream for Joe Blow as it is to share a file over Limewire" Remember, though - all it takes is one clued in... more » scarbrtj: Made me throw up a little. With the accompanying afterburn. more » OMG! Ponies!: Nice to know the nattering nabobs of negativity now make padlocks. more » KLanD: Yet another reason I'll never buy from Apple. more » frigg: Yeah, HDCP non universal playback sucks. But imagine if the pro-pirate POV was applied to any other industry: "Yeah, I steal my computers, and if I li... more » Kaiser-Machead: If this isn't a case for HandBrake, I don't know what is. I know that a file extracted and compressed from a standard DVD is not going to be even near... more » stryder100: I decided to move my iPhone to another computer, but don't know how to sync all the crap, particularly music. It used to be you just put the music on... more » vista64guy: Yet another thing that simply doesn't happen on a PC. more » weatherman: If this is true, it's absurd. I can't imagine that public displays of movies is a significant copyright issue - I mean, when was the last time you wer... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: So the lesson to be learned here is to stop purchasing hi-def content through iTunes? more » Acerbus Letalis: This won't end well. more » -
#drm
Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User the Books He's Bought and Paid For
Amazon needs to work on its Kindle DRM policy, because the following story is ridiculous. More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: Everything You Wanted to Know About DRM
Condensed explanation: Digital rights management is a corporate pain in the ass that stops you from doing whatever you want with music and movies in the name of fighting piracy. But there's more to it. -
#hdcpsucks
New MacBooks Have HDCP, Gives iTunes Purchases Less Freedom
High Definition Content Protection—the annoying DRM-y thing that's supposed to stop people from copying hi-def stuff as it travels over a card-display connector— has apparently, and unfortunately, come to Apple's MacBooks. HDCP is now included on new MacBooks to protect iTunes Store media, though it seems that only some of the content is actually HDCP-aware. A high school teacher was unable to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom's projector with his new aluminum MacBook, but other purchased media (such as Stargate: Continuum and Heroes episodes) worked just fine. Perfect. Because copyright protection is all about inconveniencing those who actually bought their stuff legally? [Ars Technica]
