Digital Rights Management News

During Apple's January education event, one thing that many Apple bloggers were waiting for never appeared -- a version of iBooks for Mac.

The Free Software Foundation submitted comments to support exemptions to allow users to install free software on all kinds of devices, and view and play media encumbered with Digital Restrictions Management .

In countries across the world, content copyright industries have been lobbying for laws that would break the Internet in the name of copyright enforcement.

While copyright owners claim that they need anti-circumvention laws to address copyright infringement, twelve years' experience with the U.S. DMCA provisions demonstrates that overbroad digital locks laws can wreak havoc on lawful, non copyright-infringing activities, stifle free speech and scientific research, and harm innovation and competition.

It the end of the day, you sit down on the sofa with your favourite beverage ready to watch the latest release you rented or downloaded the day before on your Play Station 3. Everything is going great, good picture, clear audio, brilliant, then you hit the 20 minute mark.

Limelight Networks, Inc. , today announced that Limelight, along with IMJ Corporation and Panasonic Network Services Inc., have built one of the regions first IPTV Live Event Streaming services for "Tsutaya TV," a leading electronic video delivery service for digital TV in Japan.

Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. A new BMW, for example, that only runs on BMW gas.

Beginning today, Fandor , the premier destination for watching and sharing exceptional films, will stream Sita Sings the Blues for free to members and non-members alike.

February 7, 2012 - Ottawa, Canada -- Elliptic Technologies, a leading supplier of security semiconductor IP and software has introduced the tVault Security Architecture - a flagship technology that enables end-to-end security in connected devices.

AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it's inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as CloneDVD and CloneDVD mobile.

While reading ebooks on your iOS devices is fairly pleasant, thanks to Apple's iBooks app, the company has yet to release any such program for the Mac.

Last Monday, a new gadget arrived here in the over-the-top video lab: Comcast's "AnyPlay" streamer, which makes it possible for tripleplay customers to stream live and linear TV to an iPad.What lab, you say? It all started last summer.

Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. That new BMW only runs on BMW gas.

I read an interesting article on why software piracy is so important to the preservation of art and history on Technologizer.com, available here , that I was reminded of after reading your latest post on ebooks and democracy.

Gizmodo reprints an article from Maximum PC about "seven ways to stop piracy without DRM" -aimed at computer game developers, but also mostly applicable to other media that are traditionally DRM'd, such as movies, music, or e-books. The suggestions combine the sorts of things that folks like Valve's Gabe Newell have been saying for years with some ... (more)

Neal sez, " This is a White House petition to reform U.S. copyright law in regard to libraries.

ShenZhen February 2, 2012 - iSkysoft iMedia Converter Deluxe for Mac is a blazing fast combination video converter/DVD ripper that lets you convert video or DVD to any popular standard or HD format.

With the realization setting in that stopping SOPA was just the beginning rather than the end of an ongoing struggle, calls are being raised to take proactive rather than reactive responses to such legislation.

Driving this growth was increasing demand from multimedia SoC developers in Japan, China, and Europe for Kilopass' NVM IP to provide tamper-resistant storage of digital rights management security keys and increasing adoption of Kilopass Gusto for embedded code storage for small form factor consumer products.

I applaud the hard work of everyone who has tackled the thorny issues confronting libraries in the increasingly hostile ebook environment in which we find ourselves.