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Digital Rights Management – DRM – has long been the bane of both pirates and purchasers of books, music and software. What is it? Let’s say you buy a DRM protected e-book from an online bookstore. You download it onto your computer without a problem.
May 14, 2012 at 17:07 | Source: Times-Leader
BERLIN - BMG Rights Management and the German collection society GEMA reached an agreement that will simplify the licensing and administration of online rights for BMG's Anglo-American repertoire across Europe. The partnership will begin July 1, 2012.
May 25, 2012 at 11:10 | Source: Billboard Business News
This proposed Digital Rights Management standard could increase interoperability of books on hardware like e-readers. Don’t get excited yet—the outline was only an invitation to a conversation that the association, called the International ...
May 20, 2012 at 19:23 | Source: Ars Technica
Executives from news media, publishing, TV, film, music, IT and internet media businesses (see list below) have got together with existing standards and licensing organisations to work in coalition on a cross-media global project that will result in better ...
May 18, 2012 at 11:47 | Source: eGov Monitor
Also Tuesday, Adobe introduced the next major version of its video server technology, Adobe Media Server 5, as well as its Adobe Access 4 digital rights management solution. Adobe Media Server 5, formerly known as Adobe Flash Media Server, lets media ...
May 22, 2012 at 03:50 | Source: Multichannel Online
Downer said an alternative would have been for publishers to remove software locks, called digital rights management, so readers could switch more readily between retailers and e-readers. "That would do a lot to break down the wall of the walled ...
May 21, 2012 at 12:05 | Source: The Guardian
I imagine that while console gamers rage against the coming tide of digital rights management, subscription services and used games prohibitions, PC gamers have a nice little chuckle. They’ve been dealing with this kind of thing for years.
May 18, 2012 at 02:43 | Source: Forbes
Widevine Technologies Inc. (2010). Google paid $158 million in cash for this provider of digital-rights management software, which is used to secure online video content. _ On2 Technologies Inc. (2010). Google paid $123 million for On2 ...
May 22, 2012 at 19:56 | Source: San Francisco Gate
VideoGuard conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) technologies safeguard pay-TV service revenues exceeding $50 billion. NDS middleware, which enables a host of advanced services for subscribers, has been deployed on 226 million devices.
May 28, 2012 at 08:00 | Source: StreetInsider.com
When an audience member questioned Kahle on what it would take for publishers to nix DRM (or Digital Rights Management restrictions, which confine certain formats to specific e-book readers) for that rent-a-book idea to be more widely viable ...
May 6, 2012 at 22:24 | Source: Ars Technica