Watermark Instead of DRM
A new company named, Streamburst, is looking to try something new in the world of downloadable media, specifically movies. Their idea, watermarking. Instead of utilizing digital rights management (DRM), users instead are treated to a 5 second introduction to each download that displays the name of the purchaser along with an encoding process that strip [...]
Sneaky DRM
If you browse any of the major technology websites of today, you probably notice a recurring theme among the users. If you look closely you will see that most of the people who frequent several technology sites have a mad hate for Digital Rights Management (DRM for short). Digital Rights Management is the technology employed [...]
Bill Gates on DRM
TechCrunch is running an article on what Microsoft’s Chief Architect thinks of DRM. Here are some bits from the article and my take on them.
Gates didn’t get into what could replace DRM, but he did give some reasonably candid insights suggesting that he thinks DRM is as lame as the rest of us.
Well, it is [...]
Movies Studios Want More Restrictions From Apple
It seems that one of the major reasons that the other movie studios have not lined up to get their content in the iTunes store is because they want more restrictions placed on the purchased content. Specifically they want the number of devices a movie can be downloaded to to be smaller.
An article at [...]
Digital Content and You
The direction everything seems to be going in today’s high paced media world, you are either in or you are out. You either offer digital content or you don’t. There is very little in between. As special interest groups work with government officials to make it harder for us to use media [...]
Is DRM Really All That Bad?
Today, we live in a world where listening to music and watching video has become less of a right and more of a privilege. The advent of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology has done what content makers have been asking for since Napster went mainstream, the ability to control downloaded content. Why would [...]
Who Killed TivoToGo?
The people over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have a really nice write up on TivoToGo and why there is not a version of it for the new Series 3 Tivos.
From the article:
DRM gives Hollywood and these service providers a veto over innovation. With the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in effect, technology developers [...]