Tag: DRM
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State of DRM in Canada
Thanks to The Gateway, I found an interesting blog post by Michael Geist. Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the U of O and give some solid suggestions as to how Canadians can start looking at copyright and not be swept up the interests of the DRM crowd.
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iTunes U 2.0 to be DRMed?
According to this article (with some great comments) at The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Apparently it’s the unis themselves that are wanting DRM. Ok, fair enough if you think about it – that way they can control who gets access and maybe make a little coin on some courses. But one of the things that I…
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Zune-ing in
Microsoft has released the Zune specs. It looks retro (brown electronics) and seems to want to do many things. Some are calling it the iPod killer, but other are waiting. I guess we’ll see. But now I see that it won’t play DRMed content. I don’t think this is a good sign for the DRM…
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Don’t Download this Song!
Kudos Weird Al for poking a pointy stick into RIAA and their sort! The song is pretty cool as well.
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Education and Copyright
Scott over at the EdTechPost as dug out a pretty interesting paper on copyright, DRM and other obstacles to the use of digital media in the classroom. This is timely as I noticed on Engadget a story about the CEA saying that the RIAA is actually hurting the industry with all it’s DRM nonsense. When…