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Microsoft Sues Alleged DRM Source Code Thief-Hacker

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:41:07 +0000

Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source...

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The Top 5 Digital Rights Management Websites

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:38:16 +0000

Here's a quick list of the top 5 DRM websites on the web today: DRM Blog - not updated in a while, but long, quality articles BoingBoing - an eclectic mix, but Cory Doctorow posts lots of DRM,...

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DRM Targets Electronic Textbooks

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:44:05 +0000

The nation's largest textbook wholesale company, MBS Textbook Exchange, is looking to use digital rights management to distribute protected textbooks. Instead of students buying traditional bound...

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Three Flaws of Digital Rights Management

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:43:16 +0000

An application developer in Illinois named Larry has posted an short article on why digital rights management will never work. His three main points are: DRM is always cracked DRM does absolutely...

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Sony PSP Digital Rights Management Resources

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:01:57 +0000

Many people have been actively reverse engineering the Sony Playstation Portable in order to run custom code and implement alternative functionality. Here is a list of some recent articles related to...

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Circumvent Windows WMP9 Digital Rights Management

Tue, 03 May 2005 12:43:59 +0000

A member of the popular audio-video forum avsforum.com has posted a method of circumventing Microsoft's digital rights management scheme for Windows Media Player 9 using an aborted intallation of the...

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Sony Walkman Digital Rights Management

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:14:17 +0000

The Sony Walkman NW-S23 uses a proprietary header to obfuscate MP3 files. Ronan Waide has disassembled the so-called digital rights management scheme used by the device. Implementation of the simple...

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Congress Debates Digital Rights Management

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:16:42 +0000

via Law to make iTunes compatible with Microsoft? April 07 2005 by Jo Best US legislators are debating whether to force Apple's products to interoperate with Microsoft's. The Congress have been...

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DRMBlog.com Gets Boinged

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:02:30 +0000

Congrats to my good friend Jimmy who runs DRM Blog. Digital Rights Management enthusiast Cory Doctorow plugged his site on Boing Boing yesterday. Jimmy and crew have always had practical viewpoints...

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PyMusique 0.4 Circumvents iTMS DRM

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:05:40 +0000

Following Apple's manadatory update to iTunes 4.7, 'DVD' Jon Johansen has released PyMusique 0.4, which reenables users to purchase music from the iTunes Music store without having digital rights...

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