DRM 
55 posts and columns on DRM
Five Questions About the PS4 for Sony’s Jack Tretton
Sony’s computer entertainment CEO offers a piece of advice for people who ask about mobile and tablet gaming. Raaar!
DRM Firm Sues Apple After Patent Talks Flop
Intertrust is looking for another big paycheck.
Sonos Schools the Dock With New Software Update
Wireless music system maker Sonos recently discontinued its iPod/iPhone dock. Today, it replaced it. With a software update.
New Way to Stream Music Crosses the Pond
The new music-streaming service Spotify runs remarkably fast and does a good job of incorporating Facebook friends and their playlists — as long as they, too, use the service, says Katie.
Mr. Jobs Would Be Happy to Respond if Someone Could Please Remind Him What FairPlay Was
Has the dispute over the FairPlay Digital Rights Management technology Apple once used in iTunes really dragged on this long? Impossibly, it seems it has. More than three years after the company discontinued its use, the now six-year-old lawsuit is back in the headlines again. The judge hearing the case on Monday ordered Apple CEO Steve Jobs to testify, Bloomberg reports.
Google’s 42nd Acquisition of the Year: Widevine
Back in January, Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted the company would make one acquisition a month. Now with the year nearly finished, the company has made 41, including Phonetic Arts, announced today–more than half of significant size. And Google’s clearly not through yet. The company just announced the acqusition of video optimization outfit Widevine for an undisclosed price.
"UltraViolet" Is Short for "Giant Media DRM Cloud Coalition Featuring Everyone Except Apple and Disney"
A media management system created by Hollywood plus hardware companies plus software companies, minus two very big players. Any chance it can work?
Netflix: There's a Movie Waiting on Your iPhone
Among the 1,000-plus new features included in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 is a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, and soon, Netflix will make use of it. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. An industry executive said to be familiar with the company’s plans tells Multichannel News that Netflix plans to extend its Watch Instantly video-streaming service to the Nintendo Wii and to the iPhone and iPod touch as well.
Think You Own the Book You Bought for Your Kindle? You Don’t, Says Amazon.
Buy an e-book for Amazon’s Kindle recently? You might want to check to see if it’s still on your device. Kindle users are complaining that the e-commerce giant has removed titles from their machines this week and given them refunds in their place. What happened? The details are fuzzy, but apparently, a publisher that supplied Amazon with two George Orwell titles has decided that it doesn’t want to sell them via Amazon anymore. So away they went. Have at it, DRM-haters.
EMusic’s New Boss Is the Same as the Old Boss
Shades of Dick Cheney! Subscription music service eMusic’s last CEO took off last fall. Chairman Danny Stein, who ran the company years ago, ran a search for a replacement and decided that the best man for the job was…Danny Stein.
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