If you have a Tivo, iPod, or anything else that lets you view videos or listen to music on a digital player, you’ve run up against DRM. You may not be aware of it but its there. It’s what’s kept TivoToGo from working on non-windows PC’s until last month, when the encryption was finally cracked. […]
Yahoo music is selling a music file as a plain vanilla MP3 file with no DRM. Could this position them to compete against iTunes effectively? Only if music available as a protected AAC file on iTunes is also purchasable as a plain MP3 file on Yahoo! Music. From slashdot. The rationale is on the Yahoo!
The Hollywood cartels may try to get hardware companies to put in DRM controls via HDMI with the promise not to use them for 7-8 years. The effect is that if your screen or recorder isn’t blessed by Hollywood, they can limit the video they send to it to a low-resolution image. Manufacturers who want
Via BoingBoing, I ran across this item, about how a supporter of the DMCA and DRM technologies found he couldn’t access 2 years worth of television programs on his own video recorder. For those who aren’t familiar with Mr. Giovanetti’s work, he’s a frequent and pugnacious commentator on intellectual property issues, and an avowed supporter
I sent my friend Nam-ho a link to the new release of Lightbox JS, a slick Javascript based way to overlay images on a webpage. As far as a javascript onlly solution, it could be an impressive method for displaying a slideshow. In response, Nam-ho sent me to SimpleViewer, a much slicker Flash-based solution for
A revelation hopefully more artists and creative professionals will come to is neatly summed up in this post from Powazek. We’ll only see more of them come to the same conclusions as they learn to fully harness the distribution models provided by the Internet. Singers, Writers, Artists and all no longer need middlemen to market
The MPAA and RIAA are trying to get a variation of the broadcast flag passed again. This sneaks in a lot of control that would stifle innovation and give the content mill owners a veto over new devices. The full details and way to contact your representative are available on the EFF’s site: Stop the
From PVRWire, who digs deep in the TiVo community boards comes news that better Mac support is coming for Tivo in 2006.
Is TiVo trying to hitcho onto the iPod halo effect? According to gizmodo you’ll be able to move recorded shows from your tivo to your PSP or iPod. The current Windows-only method for getting shows off the Tivo onto a non-Windows device, involves stripping the DRM. Testing of the software should happen in the next
There was quite a discussion in my post asking Will your next music device be your cellphone?. The author of Communities Dominates Brands responded, and Sandy backed up my thoughts that it’ll be some time before a cell phone can replace your ipod/music player of choice. What I think is that it isn’t a question