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more about #drm aokiqiao: I have an actual Zune 120 with Zune Pass and its the best thing thats happend to me this year. And when I dont have the zune I just use Orb Live on my... more » Nathan Obbards: Now there's even more reason for me to use my newly acquired HTC Imagio. The Zune Pass is great, as much as iPeople love to bash it. I'm waiting for... more » MarcusMaximus: Except that then you have to deal with WinMo, rather than the excellence that is the Zune HD. (I know I'm going to get attacked like crazy from the pe... more » bitgod: Heh, I went to see Avatar 3D today and only got to see the first hour. About an hour into it, it started freezing up. After about the 6th time, we j... more » badhatharry: Anybody else think a 150 gigs seems a bit small for this movie? more » Saboth: I was forced to endure New Moon with the wife a few weeks ago, and noticed the top half of the screen was a much lighter hue than the bottom half. I t... more » taodude: I can imagine a panicked theater owner, mopping the sweat from his brow as he calls out to the theater-goers, "Is there a hacker in the house?" more » FauxFilms: I hadn't seen a movie in 3D until last night and that was a mistake. I spewed about 90 minutes in, and not just because of stupid McGuffins like "Uno... more » Jeffrey Odermann: LMAO. I was actually at one of these 8 pm showings in Germany. The manager came out and told us that they had sent them the key to the German dubbed... more » Kaiser-Machead: The ironing is delicious more » OCEntertainment: One time I was at a theater for some summer movie midnight showing. The movie stalled out for just a moment during the beginning when nothing but bori... more » thatsmrpotatohead2U: Gosh, all you guys bashing iTunes....is it possible that there is a class of semi-audiophile gadget lovers who aren't programming geeks out there - ie... more » kingcrim84: Is there a viable option to sell digital music in an actual store location rather than just iTunes? One of the beauties of music stores is being able... more » netposer001: How about Apple letting me sync my iPod Touch via WiFi to my home PC with iTunes? Connecting via USB cable is silly. more » Ninety-9: Selling music at a nearly 100% profit while at the same time insuring that your customers are locked to using your software and your hardware is risky... more » SwatLax: What I'm most interested to see is whether Apple copies the Lala model of offering songs for a cheaper price (~$.10) that are online only (requiring a... more » trumpetgod: Apple is pushing the cloud computing model, but the problem is that we don't yet have the infrastructure that would make streaming viable. Near-seaml... more » Mikestan: What ever happened to iTunes preview? Remember itunes on the web? [gizmodo.com] more » TonyWonder: If its anything like the HypeMachine (hypem.com) no plug intended, it will be successful... but considering most of the songs on that blog aggregator ... more » Voyou_Charmant: By "more powerful" do you mean "an even slower piece of shit that I am forced to use?" Because that is the only thing I think of when I hear about up... more » -
#zunehd
How To: Play Zune Pass Music on Your WinMo Handset
For $15 a month, a Zune Pass subscription is a pretty great deal. The only catch, seemingly, is that you also have to pony up a couple hundred bucks for a Zune. Except! Turns out you don't. PocketNow shows how: More » -
#avatar
Massive DRM Fail Kills Avatar 3D Screening
Even movie theaters have to deal with the onus of DRM—3D versions of Avatar have a complex system "which involves several certificates and server-delivered time-sensitive keys for hard drives and projectors" that completely blew up at some screenings. More » -
#rumor
How Lala and the Web Will Make iTunes Even More Powerful
We've been wondering what a Lalaized iTunes would look like, and we weren't too far off: The WSJ says iTunes is evolving into a web-centric model, making the biggest music store in the world that much more powerful.
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#crime
Guy Demands to Be Arrested for Ripping His Own DVDs
In Denmark it's legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection More » -
#windows7
Windows 7 Hacked (Again) for Keyless Activation
Lo! Yet another Windows 7 activation hack appears. This one's a little more creative in that it doesn't require an OEM key at all, and instead bypasses the verification DLL completely. More » -
#movies
Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies on SD Cards! Hahahahaha! From Kiosks!
Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program that will load a DRM'd movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! More » -
#windowsmobile
Windows Mobile Marketplace App Copy Protection Is a Joke
According to a developer on XDA, the already slack copy protection for Windows Marketplace is a complete joke—with a "hunch" and five minutes, he was able to get around it, creating unlimited copies of paid apps. More » -
#mp3players
SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player Keeps the Bizarre slotRadio Dream Alive
Remember slotRadio, SanDisk's anachronistic plan to load microSD cards with sometimes-DRMed music, as if they were CDs? It was strange! Also strange: SanDisk still believes in it, and they've even produced a second, fuller-featured player, called the Clip+. More » -
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#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 » -
#music
Universal and Virgin Offering Unlimited DRM-Free MP3s For Flat Monthly Rate
British cable operator Virgin Media is set to offer up an unlimited music download subscription program with Universal that would give you access to DRM-free MP3s as long as you pay a set monthly fee. More » -
#bluray
Blu-ray Managed Copy Full-Res Backups Are Only Good in Theory
The idea behind Blu-ray Managed Copy sounds good—it'll let you make one full-res backup copy of a Blu-ray disc, and studios are required to support it beginning next year. But needing brand new hardware is just the start. More » -
#napster
Napster's New Pitch: Five DRM-Free Songs, Unlimited Streaming, $5 A Month
When Best Buy gobbled up Napster, Adam wondered what they could possibly do to make their expensive new liability relevant again. The answer? Go cheap. Very cheap.
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#listeningtest
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we've been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we've done it to date: More » -
#kindle
Surprise! If Your Amazon Account Dies, It Takes Your Kindle With It
If you've read why you don't own your digital books anymore, you're probably not shocked to learn—unlike one unfortunate Kindle owner—if your Amazon account is suspended, your Kindle loses half its functionality. More » -
#apple
Apple Developer Agreement Forbids Writing Jailbreak and DRM Cracking Apps
Developers signing on to the iPhone SDK program are now expressly forbidden from writing iPhone apps that can be installed via jailbreak, or any software for any Apple technology that messes with security or DRM. More » -
#realfreedom
Tired of iTunes Thugs Ruining Your Movies? Did you know that U can Have Real True Personal Freedom?
Wired and the Lifehacker wants—and can!—to show you the path to real iTunes autonomy with DVD movie discs, for freedom, for free!*. More » -
#itunes
iTunes HD Movies Won't Play on Older Non-HDCP Monitors
If you dropped $20 on an HD movie from iTunes since they came out yesterday, but have a newer Mac and an older external display, you might not be able to watch it. More » -
#howto
How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs
Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You'd like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know first. More » -
#filesharing
RIAA and BSA's Favorite Lawyers Taking Top Department of Justice Posts
RIAA-fan Biden's influence in the Obama administration may be larger than anticipated, at least when it comes to file sharing: His good pals with RIAA and BSA connections keep getting Department of Justice's seats. More » -
#itunes
Steve Jobs Bullied Record Execs Into iTunes Deal on Christmas Eve
While Steve Jobs wasn't personally at Macworld to reveal that iTunes was going DRM-free and OTA downloadable, he's the one who made it happen—he bullied Sony Music's chairman over the phone on Christmas Eve. More »
