Digital Rights Management articles

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  Article

  The darknet rises: how Microsoft engineers predicted the failure of DRM as we knew it

  By Aaron Souppouris on December 1, 2012 12:32 pm + 48 comments

  In 2002, four Microsoft engineers presented a paper titled The Darknet and the Future of Content Continue reading…

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  DRM comes back with a vengeance as digital media moves to the cloud

  By Nilay Patel on January 24, 2012 01:02 pm + 107 comments

  Almost exactly five years ago, Steve Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Music," a short essay arguing against Continue reading…

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  Feature

  Sorry iBooks, paper books still win on specs

  By Dieter Bohn on January 20, 2012 01:21 pm + 400 comments

  In the wake of Apple's announcement of iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and the latest version of iTunes U, Continue reading…

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  Article

  iBooks Author restricts all sales to iBookstore, wraps for-pay books in DRM

  By Dieter Bohn on January 19, 2012 10:08 pm + 228 comments

  After iBooks Author's announcement and release today, would-be writers began delving into the tool Continue reading…

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  Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony, and Toshiba team up for new flash memory DRM solution

  By Dante D'Orazio on December 19, 2011 06:07 pm + 16 comments

  Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony, and Toshiba announced today that they're teaming up to launch the Continue reading…