Tag: DRM
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Mashable on Digital Textbooks
Mashable (of all places) has an interesting set of points as to why digital textbooks are not quite all they are made out to be: Cost savings (only 12.5% cheaper) No standard format DRM/ownership they also quote the Dean of the University of Texas School of Information. “Fighting 700 years of human familiarity with paper…
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Fox, Lion’s Gate catching on
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. It looks like Lion’s Gate is joining Fox in offering iTunes/iSlate friendly files along with the DVD. Some part of me would like to think that the bigger part of movie piracy is the conversion of format (the rest knows it is the price), so this is certainly…
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Adobe, Microsoft + Flash, Silverlight = DRM
There seems to be quite the buzz online about Adobe’s plans to DRM the next version of Flash and the associated player. While part of me is thinking – what is going to be so hard about getting the petabytes of content that is already out there and not DRMed to play in the old…
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Zune is certainly no boon
Well it seems that brown certainly isn’t the new white (How not to be an iPod) and that Apple’s got little more to worry about than losing time to giggling staffers and tech writers taking shots at MS’s re-enforced dorky image. Zune isn’t firing up the sales charts, it sits at Amazon’s 23rd position. For…
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Making Cuts – Editing Hollywood movies legally?
According to the website this service will allow users to create custom versions of movies (akin to making stories for those of you playing with DVD Studio) so that you can take out or add elements to a DRMed movie without manipulating the original content. What I think will be useful for schools (if it’s…