4 posts and columns on FairPlay

Mr. Jobs Would Be Happy to Respond if Someone Could Please Remind Him What FairPlay Was

in News on March 22, 2011 at 2:24 pm PT

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.

Real to Apple: From Hell's Heart, I Stab at Thee!

in News on June 30, 2008 at 9:23 am PT

In a 2004 email to Steve Jobs, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser asked the Apple CEO to consider a “tactical alliance” with his company. License us your Fairplay digital-rights management system, allow our customers to play their digital music collections on the iPod, wrote Glaser, and we’ll make the iPod our primary device for the RealNetworks store and for RealPlayer software.

Real to Apple: From Hell’s Heart, I Stab at Thee!

in News on June 30, 2008 at 9:23 am PT

In a 2004 email to Steve Jobs, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser asked the Apple CEO to consider a “tactical alliance” with his company. License us your Fairplay digital-rights management system, allow our customers to play their digital music collections on the iPod, wrote Glaser, and we’ll make the iPod our primary device for the RealNetworks store and for RealPlayer software.

ITunes’s Usage Limits

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 11, 2005 at 12:01 am PT

This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about iTunes’s usage limits, the screen zooming feature on Microsoft’s Wireless Optical Mouse 5000 and backing up your hard disk.