MICROSOFT RESEARCHERS: DRM DOOMED TO FAILURE

Nov 21, 2002 | DRM

A fascinating report delivered to a conference on “Digital Rights Management” yesterday. A group of Microsoft researchers presented a paper which concludes that all efforts to stop file swapping are in the long term futile and doomed to failure. The Register...

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY DEMANDS CENSORSHIP RIGHTS ON WEB SURFING

Aug 18, 2002 | broadband, DRM, file_sharing, law

The recording industry heavyweights – the usual gang, including Vivendi, Sony, Bertelsmann and Warner Bros – have now filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a number of the major Internet service and network providers, including Sprint, AT&T,...

LEGISLATORS ASK ASHCROFT TO JAIL FILE SWAPPERS

Aug 14, 2002 | DRM, file_sharing, law

Another strong indication that executives and legislators are actually becoming insane whenever copyright issues are discussed. Nineteen of the most senior members of Congress sent a letter urging Attorney General John Ashcroft “to prosecute individuals who...

TELEVISION LOCKDOWN IN PROGRESS

Aug 8, 2002 | DRM, video

The FCC has proposed draft regulations on two issues: (1) Beginning July 1, 2004, all new televisions with 36” screens or larger must include digital receivers; in 2007, all new televisions must include digital receivers. (2) The digital receiver will be required to...

THE BATTLE BETWEEN HOLLYWOOD AND HIGH TECH

Aug 7, 2002 | audio, DRM, file_sharing

There is growing tension between the computer industry and the entertainment industry about how to handle copyright issues. It’s easy for me to imagine new business models for the recording industry that would make it unnecessary for them to act like thugs. But the...

MORE FROM JANIS IAN

Aug 6, 2002 | audio, DRM, file_sharing

Janis Ian wrote a thoughtful followup to her original article about the record industry – insightful comments on the wrongheadedness of the industry’s current approach to its “piracy problem” and suggestions for new business models that would...