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Sony BMG Lets the Music Play

Trevor — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:22:30 +0000

The last of the major labels finally throws in the towel on DRM, and prepares to fight Apple for valuable download revenues

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Net radio “compromise” hinged on DRM adoption

Jordan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:48:24 +0000

As we reported Friday, the looming royalty crunch on Internet radio that would have begun today (July 15) was narrowly averted last week by a temporary reprieve from SoundExchange. Now it appears that a lasting compromise is indeed possible, but such a compromise will likely mean mandatory DRM for Internet radio.

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iTunes 7.1.2 DRM cracked

Jordan — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:28:24 +0000

This program will let you use the music you legally bought the way you should be able to.

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HBO Exec: Don’t Call It DRM

Jordan — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:49:19 +0000

People don’t like DRM, perhaps that’s just because it’s such a smelly word. HBO’s chief technology officer Bob Zitter thinks so, he wants to ditch the term DRM in favor of “DCE,” or, “Digital Consumer Enablement.” HBO’s top techie said the new term would better describe all the peachy ways that DRM… er, DCE could be used.

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AACS LA: Internet “revolt” be damned, this fight is not over

Jordan — Sat, 05 May 2007 02:53:20 +0000

What is it they say about history? Those that don’t know it are going to look really clueless when they repeat it? Something like that. AACS, meet DeCSS. DeCSS, meet your latest imitator.

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09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

Jordan — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:36:34 +0000

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 . The magic HD-DVD key ^_^.

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Microsoft dropping DRM from Zune Music Store

Jordan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:12:46 +0000

“Microsoft says that it’s dropping DRM from some of the catalog in the Zune store. This is the other shoe-drop we’ve all been waiting for since Apple announced last week that it would sell the entire EMI catalog (albeit at a 30% higher price) without DRM through the iTunes Music Store…”

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Dawn of RARA – RIAA and DRM – fatal injury

Jordan — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:24:18 +0000

With Vista sales completely lagging, and Steve Jobs being nice, and Google trying not to be as evil, it looks like something the RIAA is losing supporters faster than Alberto Gonzales.

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QTFairUse6 v2.5: Now a GUI and full iTunes 7 support

Jordan — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:20:10 +0000

GUI version and library conversion routines by ATOM_alac. Support for iTunes 7.0.1 and 7.0.2. Fast dumping for iTunes 7.x. Patch offsets are now specified in an external file. Invalid m4a files which were sometimes produced by 2.4 are now detected and reconverted. List of protected files is now retrieved from the XML library file.

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MPAA: Piracy is the outcome of DRM complications

Jordan — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:18:03 +0000

Last week at the Digital Home Developers Conference Brad Hunt, the MPAA’s executive vice president and chief technology officer said that piracy is the inevitable outcome of the music and movie industries’ inability to provide a simple, inter-compatible and non-intrusive DRM solution.

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myFairTunes6 now supports iTunes 7.0.1.8

Jordan — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:26:50 +0000

Version .0.5.7b of myFairTunes6 now supports iTunes 6.0.5.x, 7.0.0.x and 7.0.1.x

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Oct 3 – Day Against DRM – Get your FREE sticker packs delivered!

Jordan — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:35:24 +0000

When the UK Government’s All Party Internet Group reported on DRM, they made a number of recomendations, #1 was to call for “Extensive Labeling” of all DRM products. DefectiveByDesign are sending out free label and sticker packs in time for Oct 3rd. Also, join the action at kick-off events planned for New York and London on Saturday Sept 30.

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iTunes 7 patches QTFairUse 2.2, QTFairUse 2.3 patches iTunes 7

Jordan — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:01:33 +0000

The new iTunes 7 has been cracked very shortly after being released.

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October 3rd Declared “Day Against DRM”

Jordan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:59:19 +0000

“If consumers even know there’s a DRM… we’ve already failed” -Disney Exec
Taking inspiration from Disney, DefectiveByDesign.org is asking people to submit ideas for actions for October 3rd – a “world wide day of action against DRM”. DBD will highlight the best ideas and award prizes for ideas and actions that raise public awareness.

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myTunes: the simplified iTunes DRM stripper for Windows

Jordan — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:29:18 +0000

Today we’re one step closer to de-DRMing iTunes with myTunes, a small (50KB), simple, graphical Windows app designed to strip the DRM off your iTunes tracks lickety split.

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iTunes 6 finally cracked

Jordan — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:51:29 +0000

Remember Hymn? You should, back in the day (like, um, 2004) it allowed you to strip the FairPlay DRM right off iTunes Music Store bought files just like that; well, it’s been a long time in coming, but a new app called QTFairUse looks like it can now be used (with some amount of difficulty) to dump iTunes version 6.0.4 – 6.0.5….

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