Engadget points us to an interesting new site called SpiralFrog; an ad supported site that makes an attempt at free music, but it’s not really free. SpiralFrog makes a laughable attempt at offering free music, with catches. SpiralFrog music is all DRM’d. It requires you to log in at least once a month to maintain [...]
So, did you hear? HBO’s latest proposal. Apparently, they figured out why consumers are not liking DRM; “it emphasized restrictions.” Never mind the fact that the whole premise behind DRM is limiting the options to use content, you have legally purchased, how you want. Now HBO wants to call it “DCE” or “Digital Consumer Enablement.” [...]
Anybody that has been on the web any more than a few days knows the more you attempt to suppress something, the more attention it gains, bringing us the Streisand Effect, name by TechDirt after a court case in which Barbara Streisand attempted to get photos of herself removed from sites only to increase their [...]
In a poor attempt to silence the masses (Boing Boing), the users of Digg and the internet fought back. It is pretty crazy. The mob took over; every single story on the front page of Digg, sans one, was about the algorithm for decrypting, copying and ripping HD-DVDs (in case you’ve missed it). What is [...]
Sony has done it again. While it’s not rootkits, it is definitely in the same ball park; they attempted to “update” their DRM schema. This go around was against DVDs which inadvertently made them incompatible with a number of DVD players. Sony attempted to push off the responsibility of updating onto the hardware manufactures, but [...]
