Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'DRM'
More (and more) good news for fair use
Last year I kept being amazed at all the progress I saw in the adoption of more realistic business models by the music as well as other industries. I thought it was a watershed year for loosening up the DRM...
Doctorow's CC licensed book, Little Brother, now at 4 weeks on NYT Bestseller List
Speaking of the future, here's a glimpse: Doctorow: First CC-Licensed Work on NYT Best Sellers List/New Graphic Novel - Creative Commons. Hooray for Cory Doctorow, showing the world (again) that free digital can sell (lots of) paper. Mmm. Smell that...
Wired follows up the Qtrax press release with a "not so fast"
Well, it's more than a bit odd for a company to jump the gun as seriously at it appears that Qtrax did yesterday (see my post from yesterday, just below this one), according to this follow-up article, Wired News -...
And then there were none
No need to comment really: Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM. DRM is history in the music biz. Now for books and movies....
Just Because You're Paranoid...
As I mentioned in an earlier post ("Shooting Fish In a Barrel"), my university was one of the 25 named bad guys receiving letters about online piracy. My earlier blog was about the College Opportunity and Affordability Act winding its...
The end of the debate is in sight
So says Andy Oram at O'Reilly Radar, Music industry association recommends flat-rate file sharing. He's talking about a rumored proposal by the Danish equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA combined, that is, the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers,...
DRM free tunes and mass digitization have something in common
So, Apple has lowered the price of its DRM-free tunes to .99: Apple lowers price of DRM-free iTunes songs - Digital Life - MSNBC.com, and *not* in response to competition from competitors such as Walmart and Amazon that sell DRM-free...
Nice to hear something positive about the music biz
Print is Dead has a nice piece focusing on how much has changed in the music industry by comparing the release 40 years ago of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band with Paul McCartney's latest release: Print is Dead: Books...
So long, and thanks for all the fish
It's a good thing titles can't be copyrighted, because I happen to like this one and the book to which it is attached, and it seemed to fit. (If you don't recognize it, it's the title of the fourth of...
Remember April 2, 2007
It's official. The third largest music distributor, EMI, announced today with Apple's Steve Jobs that it would offer its entire catalog DRM-free on iTunes: EMI, Apple To Sell DRM-Free Music for $1.29/song. Et voila, do we have the beginning of...
More Reason for Optimism
I once read that the year before the transistor *completely* replaced the vacuum tube, more vacuum tubes were sold than in any other year of their existence. I'm awful with details, so I'll accept that I may not have this...
Microsoft Pulls Out All the Stops to Catch Google
Microsoft has made headlines a lot lately. The release of Vista, a new Book Search interface, a scathing attack on Google earlier this week before an AAP gathering in NY, and now, this NY Times article, Searching for Michael Jordan?...
Evan Brown's Internet Cases Podcast # 26: FAIR USE Act
Evan Brown has a succinct explanation of the various parts of the new FAIR USE Act, the bill introduced in Congress last week that would make several changes to the anti-circumvention provisions to allow certain uses that have become problematic...
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