The audiobook of my latest novel, Makers has been published by Random House Audio, strictly in DRM-free formats over the net (this means that Apple won't carry it in the iTunes store, even though Audible was willing to carry it without DRM). The reading is by Bernadette Dunne, a very talented actor. I just listened to this for the first time yesterday and I was blown away by Dunne's reading. I'm a...
Vincent Van Gogh, The Night Cafe, 1888 Daily Thoughts 11/25/2009 I am almost done reading Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. Right now, I am reading about the history of technology and copyright. It starts with movies, then moves to videos starting with betamax, then dvds, and finally I am reading about the internet and movies. This of course touches on the subject of DRM (Digital Rights Management)...
In Arista v. Does 1-16 , the appeal from the lower court's rulings was argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, on Friday, November 20th. Decision was reserved. Briefs: Brief of Appellant Appellees' Brief Appellant's Reply Brief [ Ed. note. I was in attendance. Unfortunately, the argument did not appear to go well, and did not deal with any of the procedural unfairness issues...
Subscription music services have been around for some time, but have never taken off in a way that eclipsed the success of the a la carte iTunes model. Napster and Rhapsody are two of the bigger names that remain, offering services between $7 and $15 per month for various flavors of streaming, MP3 downloads, and DRM-tethered mobile support. Now a new entrant will be breaking onto the scene at a $5...
Live Nation and iTunes just announced a partnership to sell live digital downloads from concerts at various Live Nation venues. Eliot from Wired’s Epicenter blog has a bit more info on the new offerings, which also include concert video as well as audio: The new section represents another breakthrough in the promising area of live digital [...] Related posts: EMI, Apple to Sell Non-DRM Tracks...
ISPA slams Mandy's copyright land grab • The Register tags : copyrght Claims from minister Stephen Timms this morning that the Digital Economy Bill has widespread support have been thrown into question, after the Internet Service Providers Association insisted it is strongly opposed to aspects of the legislation. Mandelson's bill gives him power to change copyright laws as he sees fit, using a...
Well, you just knew this was going to happen eventually. Suddenly publishers are starting to freak out over "ebook piracy," claiming (totally inaccurately) that they've lost $600 million to it. Of course, as some are noting the real problem isn't "piracy" but the industry's response to it: The best way to fight piracy? Got e-book shoppers accustomed to buying from legitimate sources...
Lilian Edwards, one of our Advisory Council, has this superb post about the Digital Economy Bill on her excellent panGloss blog: So, once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, where the breach is of copyright of course. First a brief summary of the terrain. Clauses 4-17 of the Digital Economy Bill introduce an “initial obligations” regime for ISPs, whereby subscribers accused of...
Here’s a salmagundi of information and links covering the just-released Beta of the up-and-coming Silverlight 4 . (In case you were wondering, I’m using the term salmagundi to refer to a mishmash of little things. A salmagundi is an salad dish dating back to England in the 1600s made of meat, seafood, vegetables, fruit, leaves, nuts and flowers.) What’s New in Silverlight 4 Beta?...
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[ Image Credit ] Judge D. Gregorio Alvarez Alvarez of Salamanca, Spain, dismissed a complaint brought by Nintendo against Grupo Movilquick, which sells the DSTT flash cart in Spain. The judge ruled that though the device does circumvent Nintendo's DRM, and can be used for piracy, it can also be used to extend the functionality of the DS in other, legal ways -- such as, according to Google's translation...
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Tunebite is the best solution to remove copy protection from music, audio books and films & then convert it to one of 100 file formats. Since 2004, Tunebite has been mentioned and singled out for excellence in more computer trade publications than any other legal software solution that removes DRM copy protection. Tunebite legally removes the audio DRM copy protection from music & audio books...
This is a really good news for Linux-based HTPC owners. Mplayer recently added supports of HD-DVD/Blu-Ray codecs. The latest code in Subversion repository can do it with that DRM decryption patch. The full guide how to play and rip HD-DVD and Blu-ray disks under Linux can be found here. I was asked a few times about [...]
Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you bought a Microsoft Zune, you cannot use iTunes music. So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media)....
The following step by step guide will share with you how to remove DRM from protected WMV and at the same time convert DRM protected WMV to DVD for backup, enhancement or playback on traditional TV sets, home DVD players with Media Converter Ultimate . Step 1. Download Media Converter Ultimate , install and run it. ( free download ) Step 2. Remove DRM from protected WMV Click the "Add" button to load...
As we know, the .m4v movies purchased from iTunes are protected with DRM. At first, you need to remove the DRM protection. QTFairUse: it can remove DRM protection from iTunes music and videos for free. Second, to convert M4V into a DVD player readable format so that you can watch these on a DVD player, you need to use M4V to DVD Converter for Mac, which can easily convert and burn .m4v files without...
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