PUBLIC MARKS with tags video & drm

This is a giant, flaming middle finger, sent by Google and the studios to the customers who were dumb trusting enough to buy DRM videos. How many of these people will trust the next DRM play from Google (no doubt coming soon from YouTube) or the studios?

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Si vous utilisez Windows Media Player, il vous arrive peut être d'acquérir des médias (chansons, vidéos...) payantes avec le système de DRM intégré. Le principe de ces DRM est de vous interdire de dupliquer (gravure CD, tranfert vers iPod...) ces chansons. Heureusement un hacker nommé Videntia a réalisé FairUse4WM un logiciel très simple qui permet de "débloquer" les fichiers protégés. Malgré les efforts de Microsoft pour le faire disparaître, le logiciel reste fonctionnel.

DRM, car nous sommes tous des délinquants

Time and time again, industry talk comes back to what the one "killer app" will be for IPTV as a platform.

The real news : " Google has developed its own digital-rights-management software to protect downloaded videos from piracy".