Scaled pricing: A new business model for music
The recording industry is in trouble. The transition from analog records to digital CDs was a profitable one for the labels in the 1980s and early 1990s, but the transition from physical media sales to...
View Article"Kindle", Amazon's e-book reader, ignites interest (and weird.nl)
It's IT Blogwatch: in which Amazon prepares to launch its Kindle e-book reader. Not to mention those crazy Dutch and their strange stores...Steven Levy reports:Amazon's Jeff Bezos ... wants to change...
View ArticleBad Microsoft, good Microsoft
There's a right way and a wrong way to do almost everything, and in the last couple of days Microsoft has done exactly the wrong thing in one case (and handed the opponents of DRM a powerful argument...
View ArticleTime for an acronym upgrade
Pop quiz: The RIAA's claim last week that digital rights management (DRM) is the Wave Of The Future was...
View Article'Burned' by Yahoo's DRM
Will hundreds of my purchased songs be rendered unplayable? Not with my (probably illegal) workaround.
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SanDisk's slotMusic format: FTW or WTF?
In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings listens to the music industry's latest wheeze to sell us their choonz: a drm-free album on a microSD card for under $10. Not to mention a "clbuttic"...
View ArticleDigital Copy: A feature that's no feature
Q: Why do you need Digital Copy to copy your DVDs? A: You shouldn't./>
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The RIAA gives up on finding a competitor to iTunes
The RIAA today announced it is giving up on suing individual users for distributing music over the Internet. Although they will still serve notice to ISPs which have customers who are big offenders,...
View ArticleZune misery mystery solved
We now know why 30GB Zunes went bust and how, hopefully, how to fix them.
View ArticleApple kills off DRM
Please, please let this ground-breaking move by Apple be the beginning of the end for all digital rights management.
View ArticleD.I.C.E.: Newell says pirates "way ahead of us"
Half Life 2 producer Gabe Newell doesn't believe pirates are out for freebies, they just hate handcuffs and standing in line. Who knew?
View ArticleThink you own your Kindle books?
Think again. But, the mere fact that Amazon can delete any of your books at will is only the tip of what is no less than a mind-control ice-berg.
View ArticleAnother DRM plan bites the dust: HDCP key leaked
How many metaphorical bloody noses will it take before the movie and music industries realize that DRM is a waste of their time -- and ours? As if we needed more evidence, now the HDCP Master Key has...
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