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Some HBO on DirecTV customers SOL with new DRM

Posted April 20, 2012 - 12:13 pm

Paying for DirecTV and their HBO package? Can you still watch HBO shows? Lucky you.
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Movie studios team with storage vendors on DRM

Posted February 29, 2012 - 5:52 pm

The companies today agreed to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards such as SD Cards and various other storage devices.
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Adobe upgrades, renames DRM software for Flash

Posted May 11, 2010 - 10:01 pm

Flash Access 2.0, previously known as Flash Media Rights Management Server, has been rewritten as an SDK
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Ubisoft's DRM service fails; paying customers can't play

Posted March 7, 2010 - 9:13 pm

Everyone saw this coming, but even the most pessimistic of us didn't think it would happen so soon. Ubisoft's DRM servers failed today, leaving paying customers unable to run the software they paid for.
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May 4 named as 'Day against DRM'

Posted March 1, 2010 - 3:23 pm

Tuesday May 4 has been named as this year's Day against Digital Rights Management (DRM) by the President of the Free Software Foundation.
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Gaming: New DRM to combat piracy, drive away customers

Posted February 18, 2010 - 11:41 pm

The two gaming platforms with the biggest piracy issues are the Sony PSP and the PC. This week a couple of new DRM schemes were introduced, one for the PSP and one for a PC game. Neither is bound to be popular with legitimate customers, but will they help reduce piracy?
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Adobe's DRM vexes e-book owners

Posted February 18, 2010 - 2:53 pm

One of the chief advantages touted by Adobe Systems Inc. for its e-book copy protection technology, called Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology (ADEPT), is that consumers can buy e-books for one e-reader and freely transfer them to other such devices, as well as their Apple and Windows computers.
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Apple disses our DRM for iPad, Adobe says

Posted February 18, 2010 - 2:19 pm

Apple Inc. will not use Adobe Systems Inc.'s e-book digital rights management (DRM) technology, an Adobe executive said on Wednesday.
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Report: Apple's iPad E-Book Store to Use DRM

Posted February 16, 2010 - 2:58 pm

The iBook store, the marketplace for electronic books on Apple's forthcoming iPad, will sell e-books wrapped in digital rights management software, according to sources quoted in the L.A. Times. Apple phased out DRM songs from the iTunes store a year ago, but a majority of publishers are expected to use FairPlay copy protection software for their e-books.
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Hackers claim victory in cracking Amazon Kindle DRM

Posted December 24, 2009 - 12:01 pm

Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader is coming under assault by hackers, who say they've figured out ways to export protected content for use on other devices.
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Symantec ties DLP software to third-party security tools

Posted October 27, 2009 - 10:00 pm

Symantec has updated its Data-Loss Prevention Suite so that if the software finds a data issue that needs fixing, it can apply third-party encryption and digital-rights management (DRM) controls to the problem.
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Adobe, McAfee to combine DRM and data-loss prevention

Posted September 28, 2009 - 12:56 pm

Adobe Systems and McAfee will jointly develop a product that combines digital rights management capabilities with technology designed to prevent data from leaking outside corporate networks, the companies said Monday.
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Battle against file sharing starts in Norway

Posted June 17, 2009 - 11:59 am

Movie and record companies want Norwegian operator Telenor to block access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site and have filed documents in a Norwegian district court seeking a temporary injunction.
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Irish startup takes over Microsoft's code-protection scheme

Posted June 9, 2009 - 10:40 am

An Irish startup has taken over Microsoft's Software Licensing and Protection Services, a service to help independent software vendors protect their code and reduce software piracy.
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iTunes Store goes DRM-free

Posted January 6, 2009 - 3:38 pm

Apple has announced three significant changes to its iTunes Store at Macworld Expo, but the first is undoubtedly the biggest news: The music and video download service, which features more than 10 million songs, is finally going Digital Rights Management (DRM)-free.
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Macworld Guessing: iPhone Tethering, DRM-Free iTunes

Posted January 6, 2009 - 1:11 pm

Apple is expected to announce a $30-a-month iPhone tethering plan from AT&T and will also drop all DRM from its iTunes Music Store in what is the rumor du jour.
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Paul McCartney embraces DRM-free MP3 downloads

Posted December 10, 2008 - 2:57 pm

Sir Paul McCartney is offering his latest side project as a DRM-free digital download available as high-quality MP3 files, FLAC files and Apple Lossless files.
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Report: iTunes Goes DRM-Free...Today?

Posted December 9, 2008 - 3:37 pm

Will we be seeing DRM-free music on iTunes? That's the latest rumor from French site Electronlibre, which says tunes from Sony-BMG, Warner, and Universal Music will be sold without copy protection.
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EFF berates Apple over open-source iTunes project

Posted November 25, 2008 - 10:31 pm

The EFF says Apple is wrong to shut down a site that posted information on how to make the iPod work with Linux.
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SanDisk and record companies launch flash memory with music

Posted September 22, 2008 - 12:08 pm

Record companies are scrambling to find new ways to distribute music in the face of declining music sales. The latest is slotMusic, a microSD card containing music in MP3 format without DRM (digital rights management), playable on pocket devices such as mobile phones.
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Apple resurrects iPhone tethering app, then kills it again

Posted August 4, 2008 - 10:15 am

The on-again, off-again saga of NetShare, an iPhone tethering application, continued over the weekend as Apple Inc. briefly returned the program to the App Store on Friday, but then yanked it from the mart a second time.
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Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now

Posted July 25, 2008 - 9:53 am

Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM (digital rights management), drawing fire from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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