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Intel rolled out its combination CPU/GPU chipsets at CES in Las Vegas this week, beating AMD to the punch and pleasing Hollywood with content-control hooks.

Flash Access 2.0, previously known as Flash Media Rights Management Server, has been rewritten as an SDK

Tuesday May 4 has been named as this year's Day against Digital Rights Management (DRM) by the President of the Free Software Foundation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You don't have to wait for iTunes to join the DRM-free music revolution. Plenty of online music stores offer huge selections of DRM-free music at reasonable prices. Even better, these songs are sold in formats compatible with iPods, Zunes, and most portable audio devices. Here are 10 sites worth a look.

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.

The EFF says Apple is wrong to shut down a site that posted information on how to make the iPod work with Linux.