November 2006
MSN Music ferme ses portes, le DRM montre une fois de plus sa nocivité - Standblog - Tristan Nitot sur les standards du W3C, les navigateurs et la technologie
by mbertier (via)
MSN Music ferme ses portes. La mauvaise nouvelle, c'est que les chansons achetées sur ce service ne seront pas lisibles sur Zune, la nouvelle technologie de Microsoft en terme le lecteurs multimedia. Autrement dit, l'ancien DRM Microsoft ne sera pas compatible avec le nouveau DRM Microsoft. Ca fait mal aux consommateurs, et ça démontre exactement que les contenus, les oeuvres, ont une durée de vie supérieure à celles des technologies et de l'intérêt que les entreprises de technologie leurs porte.
October 2006
FloppyHead.com » Blog Archive » Barenaked Ladies successfully stick it to the recording industry
by mbertier (via)
The files are not encrypted with digital rights management or copy protection software. Artists are slowly migrating to distributing their own content via the internet. This seems like a great idea and should scare the RIAA more than any college student downloading a pirated song. BNL also is offering live recordings from their concert tours. An album is sold for $9.99 for mp3 and $12.99 for FLAC lossless files.
Boing Boing: Canadian music proposal would *require* DRM for online tunes
by mbertier (via)
Is this provision really what it appears to be: mandatory DRM for Canada's online music market?
September 2006
SPIRAL FROG
by chickenfire & 1 other
Free -Legal- music. Opening in Dec. 2006. WARNING: it was reported that the downloaded music will contain DRM (Digital Right Management) to force you to come back to the site one a month (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/29/spiralfrog_uni_launc.html).
August 2006
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June 2006
Désinfectez nos machines - da scritch blog zone
by mbertier & 2 others
Savez-vous que pour protéger les bénéfices de certains et contenter leur parano, les appareils sont désormais vendus volontairement défectueux ?
May 2006
Slashdot - Making Money Selling Music Without DRM
by multilinko
Ars Technica's Nate Anderson has an excellent writeup on the rise of eMusic and how they're suceeding despite their unwillingness to hop on the DRM bandwagon.
March 2006
The big DRM mistake
by micah (via)
Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?
February 2006
