Digital Rights Management News

ICAP Ocean Tomo, a unit of ICAP Plc , announced today their next IP Think Tank featuring a Live IP Auction will take place March 24-25, 2010 at The Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, California.

BBC plans to copy protect Freeview high definition data have been dealt a blow by regulator Ofcom.

Whether your preference is for jazz, classical, easy-listening, or good old-fashioned rock and roll, there are now a number of different services that offer cheap and convenient ways to purchase music.

DRM:- DRM is DUMB. No two ways about it. Anything which can be seen or heard can be copied by one means or another.

Well, it finally happened. Digital versions of the Beatles ' catalog are finally coming to Apple .

A judge stops back catalogue sales of old Beatles tracks - and we have more information about the company behind the seller, Bluebeat Bluebeat suddenly has far fewer Beatles tracks for download A judge has ordered Bluebeat, the US website that had been selling the Beatles ' entire discography for digital download - and which justified its doing so ...

Canadian officials are taking part in negotiations for a top-secret copyright treaty that could see families barred from the Internet for a year if someone in the household is suspected of illegal downloads.

Last week, a music site called BlueBeat made headlines by offering Beatles songs as free streams and 25 cent downloads .

The leaks "confirm everything that we feared," wrote Gwen Hinze of the Electronic Frontier Foundation .

On Wednesday, the MPAA attempted to clarify its position on a technology called Selectable Output Control, which the MPAA is lobbying the FCC to enable.

Watch out iTunes, Amazon and 7Digital , HMV Canada has announced its expansion into the realm of digital music.

Cory Doctorow posted this frightening bit after looking over a leaked copyright treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement : Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns.

Written by Jolie O'Dell / November 3, 2009 11:12 PM / According to once-secret, now-leaked sections of the new, plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement , global Internet users and ISPs might be in for a world of hurt in the near future.

It has been a short while since the last update, but not to worry, the column is back in fine form.

Tiscali is to offer customers 6.5 million music downloads and 6,000 audiobooks from 42p per track, in a partnership with eMusic.

An open and frank discussion of media and telecommunications issues - from the consumer point of view.

On publisher 2K Games' forums , the conspiracy theory abounds -- it's a tactic to boost console sales! -- but the obvious conclusion is that the digital rights management technology in place to "protect" the game's release date unnecessarily punishes consumers.

Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news? Cloud Computing & Virtualization Expo November 2 - 4 Register Today and SAVE !.. SYS-CON.TV View Current Issue Cover Top Microsoft .NET Links From the Wires ARALOC DRM Goes 'Cross Platform' Modevity's Release of the ARALOC DRM Viewer for MAC Allows Content Publishers to Reach Huge Audience ...

Watch a slideshow of this product. Announced today, Symantec DLP Suite v. 10 adds what's called the "Flex-Response" capability to find sensitive data that has been left unprotected in the enterprise and apply security controls through encryption and DRM products from vendors such as PGP , Oracle, GigaTrust, Liquid Machines and Microsoft.

Modevity, LLC announced today that ARALOC , a leading digital rights management solution, now delivers Cross Platform support for content publishers looking to reach a very wide audience of computer and mobile device users while still protecting their proprietary content.