Mar 27 2006
Archive for March, 2006
Mar 27 2006
A DRM perfect world
I’ve been writing about the French and their approach about DRM. They are introducing regulation which will open up the issue around Digital Right Management used by different suppliers.
I have nothing against the French, I have nothing against DRM and I have nothing against Apple. But what I don’t like is being locked in by [...]
Mar 21 2006
Crack in the DRM Firewall??
France has approved the draft law which will force Apple and Microsoft to open up their DRM protection.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/21/france_drm_interop/
Let’s see what the consequences will be.
Mar 14 2006
First cracks showing in proprietary iTunes systems
Betanews reports about a possible break which could force Apple to open up its proprietary iTunes DRM model [link betanews]. iTunes is one of the most popular models for buying music on line. The biggest problem with the model is that Apple has made sure that music bought on iTunes can only be played on [...]
Mar 13 2006
Benjamen Walker is podcasting again!
In January I wrote that Benjamen Walker was missing [link]. He has a blog and radio program which you can listen too as a podcast [wikipedia podcast]. A lot of comments came in on this blog and it seemed that more people were worried about his wellbeing.
He has surfaced again and new programs are available [...]