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Click World News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The audiobook of my latest novel, Makers has been published by Random House Audio, strictly in DRM-free formats over the net (this means that Apple won't carry it in the iTunes store, even though Audible was willing to carry it without DRM). The reading is by Bernadette Dunne, a very talented actor. I just listened to this for the first time yesterday and I was blown away by Dunne's reading. I'm a...
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DS Fanboy (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
[ Image Credit ] Judge D. Gregorio Alvarez Alvarez of Salamanca, Spain, dismissed a complaint brought by Nintendo against Grupo Movilquick, which sells the DSTT flash cart in Spain. The judge ruled that though the device does circumvent Nintendo's DRM, and can be used for piracy, it can also be used to extend the functionality of the DS in other, legal ways -- such as, according to Google's translation...
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My Digital Life (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Formerly known as Teen Spirit, Jaangle, a free music player, music collection organizer, tag editor and also music quiz game, is a powerful music tool that music enthusiasts can look to if they are looking for a heavy duty all-in-one music solution. Unlike other music players/organizers, the most fascinating part about this application is its [...] [ This is a content summary only. Visit My Digital...
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FC Portables (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tunebite is the best solution to remove copy protection from music, audio books and films & then convert it to one of 100 file formats. Since 2004, Tunebite has been mentioned and singled out for excellence in more computer trade publications than any other legal software solution that removes DRM copy protection. Tunebite legally removes the audio DRM copy protection from music & audio books...
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Smart Home Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a really good news for Linux-based HTPC owners. Mplayer recently added supports of HD-DVD/Blu-Ray codecs. The latest code in Subversion repository can do it with that DRM decryption patch. The full guide how to play and rip HD-DVD and Blu-ray disks under Linux can be found here. I was asked a few times about [...]
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Corante (Free subscription) | yesterday
That line, from a column excoriating Apple for the ongoing disaster that is their App Store, is by Paul Graham . Now it happens that he's talking about software and the ways in which it is not like hardware or like media. And yet it's also fundamentally true about the media business. You cannot seriously be in the media business and expect to output a product that will somehow own the customer (user)....
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
It seems that Spain is a country that is pretty consistently figuring out that we shouldn't just throw out all other rights the second "piracy" is shouted by the entertainment industry. We've noted recently that the country hasn't just rejected three strikes and declared broadband a basic right , but has also ruled, repeatedly, that personal file sharing is legal . And now, it even has judges...
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LWN.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phoronix is reporting that Ubuntu 10.04 will ship with the Nouveau driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware. Nouveau is a reverse-engineered driver that is released as free software—unlike the NVIDIA-provided drivers. " With Ubuntu 9.04 it became easier to use the Nouveau driver with Ubuntu Linux as a snapshot of its DDX driver (xf86-video-nouveau) and its kernel DRM code were packaged up and...
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Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pirate Empathy Some artists understand copyright and have long protected their works others know little and clearly get confused. NME covered an interesting article on Lily Allen’s views on Digital downloads. Lilly used to have an anti-file-sharing blog which was supported by a host of artists such as Mark Ronson and Gary Barlow. She now claims in the article that she doesn’t oppose people...
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Jean Martina (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some days agora I came across with a software called doubletwist. It had the odd promise of making media transfer easy to nokia mobiles. It is something I have been trying for ages using all sort of suit and tools. None worked as smoothly as doubletwist. It has been a very big handycap for me, since I sold my iTouch ( for beliefs agains Apple attitudes ), to have with me my media and being able to...
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No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's a balanced and considered editorial on the Digital Economy Bill in today's Guardian. It is, however, set alongside a piece by Richard Scudamore , chief executive of the Premier League and a member of the "Creative Coalition" which trots out the sort of muddle-headed screeches we've been hearing from record manufacturers for ten years: There are threats as well as opportunities, not...
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Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Today we hear all about the world of DRM (Digital Rights management), copyright, pirates, and a wide debate on what is fair use and what is infringement. The whole Google Book Settlement started out as a case action against Google for copyright infringement. The consequence of it being settled out of court means the case was never proven. This has offered Google the opportunity to put ‘chump...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palin's memoir Glowing Rouge: "The AP was determined to get the first copy," Oreskes [a senior managing editor] wrote, detailing how the writers learned a store had...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
A mere $129.99 was the holiday price for the Simplicit.E.Reader on a J.C. Penny.com product page. Alas, it’s “currently unavailable.” Hmm. Any chance of that changing? Specs: –Five inch color screen, backlit (hey, each to his own—I like LCDs!). –1G memory. –SD slot. –USB input. –“Compatible with Adobe DRM ePub and PDF eBooks and files.”...
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Phoronix (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
This week at Phoronix we did our usual roundabout with X.Org / Linux graphics news coverage along with sharing new work on our benchmarking software, and we also broke the news that Samsung is sponsoring the development of Enlightenment. Another popular story was that Fedora 13 may support system rollbacks via Btrfs. Our graphics coverage this week consisted of a new GLX extension for Clutter/Mutter,...
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dudude | 18/11/2009
Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you bought a Microsoft Zune, you cannot use iTunes music. So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media)....
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