Posts Tagged “drm”

As a reminder that a DRM-free iTunes isn’t a license to pirate music, Slashdot reiterates an old story about your account info being hidden in the meta data of DRM-free music. If you upload a DRM-free iTunes song to a file sharing network, your e-mail address goes with it. Link via Daring Fireball.

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At its final annual Macworld keynote today, Apple announced that all songs in the iTunes store will be DRM-free by the end of March. Up until now much of the iTunes Music Store’s content was crippled with digital rights management technology that prevented users from copying files or playing them on unauthorized playback devices. Customers who [...]

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Wired reports that Apple has caved to Hollywood and added restrictive copy protection to MacBooks. The DRM scheme prevents MacBook owners from watching copyrighted content when the computer is connected to a display that is not “authorized”. Movie studios are scared stiff of allowing anyone to watch video on a device that could used to make [...]

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