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DRM down under
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| The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's Federal
| Government-funded public broadcaster, and has responsibilities under the ABC
| Act 1983 to provide services to the Australian people.
|
| The new ABC Shop has recently launched, with downloads of TV programs made
| available -- but only to Windows users willing to install Digital
| Restrictions Management (DRM) software on their computers. Like the BBC
| iPlayer, and Channel Four's "4OD", ABC is using the Kontiki platform --
| Kontiki uses peer-to-peer technology to deliver the show to other people, so
| as well as locking you into its restrictions, ABC is using your computer, and
| your internet connection, to distribute programs.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/drm-down-under
Recent:
Television New Zealand Gives Up on DRM
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| The New Zealand Herald has an interesting article about state-owned
| broadcaster Television New Zealand's on-demand streaming of media moving away
| from DRM (TVNZ has the same scope of programming and dominant market position
| as the BBC in England, though alas not the commercial-free public good
| mandate). TVNZ's head of emerging business, Jason Paris (who was at the
| recently-ended Kiwi Foo Camp) said the ad-supported streams outnumbered
| paid-for downloads by "many thousands to one" and so they're dropping the
| DRMed downloads.
|
| [...]
|
| TVNZ has been using Microsoft's PlaysForSure digital rights management
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| software to try to prevent downloaded TV shows from being copied. But just
| days after the launch of TVNZ OnDemand last March, the protection systems had
| been bypassed by viewers using software freely available on the internet.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/tvnz_gives_up_o.html
Torvalds pleased that DRM music is dying
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| Linus Torvalds, coordinator of the Linux kernel, is pleased that music
| publishers have started selling more DRM-free music -- last year he said the
| technology was a lot of "hot air".
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Torvalds-pleased-that-DRM-music-is-dying/0,130061733,339285934,00.htm?feed=rss
Microsoft ready to play with PlayReady
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| Microsoft is proudly showing off its PlayReady technology at MWC, but woe
| betide anyone who describes it as a DRM platform.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/playready_drm/
Related:
Embarrassed by DRM
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| The point behind all this is, of course, to conceal the very existence of DRM
| from the user..
|
| Ergo, we need to shout about the presence of DRM from the rooftops: the more
| people know about it, the more they will dislike it, as Microsoft well
| understands....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/embarrassed-by-drm.html
Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to Certified For Windows Vista, confuses world
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| Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM just took another step closer to the grave with
| the help of some rebranding.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/microsoft-rebrands-playsforsure-to-certified-for-windows-vista/
Microsoft: We Like DRM
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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
Microsoft Tells Apple To Stop Complaining About DRM
http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/04/13/microsoft-apple-drm/
Golden Rant : Microsoft DRM's gone too far
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| Microsoft appears to have hit the wrong button on its critical
| Windows XP download service late last month, pretty well forcing
| every XP user to upgrade to Windows Media Player (WiMP) 11 if
| they (like me and many others) have the automatic download/install
| option enabled for critical updates.
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=712
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| Gutmann: The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
Avoid the Vista badge, it means DRM inside
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| The root of this crappy DRM infection is Microsoft. It is the driving
| force here. This has nothing to do with protecting content, as we
| keep pointing out, there has never been a single thing that has had
| a DRM infection applied that didn't end up cracked on the net in
| hours. DRM is about walled gardens and control.
|
| He who controls the DRM infection controls the market. DRM is
| about preventing you from doing anything with the devices
| without paying the gatekeeper a fee. This is what MS wants,
| nothing less than a slice of everything watched, listened to
| or discussed from now on. DRM prevents others from playing
| there, thanks to the DMCA and other anti-consumer laws.
|
| Make no mistake, MS is pushing the DRM malware as hard as
| it can so it can rake in money hand over fist with no
| competition. It is really good at lock-in, in fact, the firm
| based its entire business model on harming the user so they
| have to comply and spend more.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38926
DRM in Windows Vista
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| Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want.
| These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.
| They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will
| cause technical support problems. They may even require you to
| upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software.
| And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're
| working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM)
| features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment
| industry.
|
| And you don't get to refuse them.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html
Plug a Windows XP Copy Protection Hole
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| Microsoft reports "limited" attacks on Windows XP systems via an unexpected
| path exploiting a security hole in a copy protection program that comes with
| XP. (Windows Vista is not at risk.)
|
| The program that attackers are leveraging is Macrovision's SafeDisc,
| optical-disc copy prevention software for Windows applications and games. The
| flaw is located in a system driver file called secdrv.sys. Microsoft
| immediately issued a Security Advisory.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140862/article.html
HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix
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| When I called them they confirmed my worst fears. In order to access the
| Watch Now service, I had to give Microsoft's DRM sniffing program access to
| all of the files on my hard drive. If the software found any non-Netflix
| video files, it would revoke my rights to the content and invalidate the DRM.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/03/2339248&from=rss
Macrovision update plugs zero-day DRM exploit
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| The flaw, though Symantec wasn't specific on this, involves a privilege
| elevation bug in Macrovision secdrv.sys driver that comes bundled with
| Windows XP and 2003 (though not Windows Vista).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/macrovision_drm_update/
DRM – a big win for Microsoft
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| Recently I came to conclusion that Microsoft is the company, which profits
| most from the Digital Rights Management.
| I don't know the numbers, but I guess that DRM is little or no success for
| the recording industry. To say it stopped pirating films and music would be a
| joke.
| Microsoft people must have known that the protection would be broken very
| soon. So why they are implementing it after all?
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/2/32809
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