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- Windows XP SP3 back on Windows Update
- Windows XP SP3 is now back online for automatic download via Microsoft's Windows Update service. This comes shortly after the hasty withdrawal last week of both Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 following the discovery of a compatibility issue. The compatibility issue involved Microsoft's Dynamics Retail...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- The perfect sci-fi library
- There are 15 science fiction books in "the perfect library"--at least according The Telegraph. It's an idea almost too stupid for words, but here's the list, anyway. We'll get to what's wrong with it in a second. 1984 by George Orwell 2001: A Space Odyssey by...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- DRM and unintended consequences
- Back in November 2007, I hinted at the inherent problems of DRM software in the article Radiohead knows more than Microsoft about security. I didn't really address DRM itself in any detail, however. I'll address it now. Technical problems As you might have gathered from the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Music industry discovers the value of free
- In a time where the most common activity in the music industry is recognizing and stopping piracy, a new player comes to the table with a bold new concept. Free. This is a new and abrupt change for a business that has been desperately fighting against...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- IT News Digest Week in Review, December 14, 2007
- Keep up with some of the top news stories of the week, including TechRepublic members' responses, in the IT News Digest Week in Review podcast. The stories that are covered this week include the closing of CompUSA, DRM on storage, CyberLover software, Dell products, Microsoft Office 2007 SP1, and Mac...
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Some users locked out of Rhapsody by extended outage
- An unknown number of users are finding themselves locked out of RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service. This is the second time since March that this has happened. The irony is that the company executives are not able to tell how long the problem will take to be corrected this...
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- IT News Digest Week in Review, November 16, 2007
- Keep up with some of the top news stories of the week, including TechRepublic members' responses, in the IT News Digest Week in Review podcast. The stories that are covered this week include a data loss bug in Leopard, PCs in Japan, Blu-ray's BD + DRM technology, the hottest certifications...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Blu-ray’s BD+ DRM technology cracked
- SlySoft, the makers of AnyDVD, has released a new beta of its famous ripping application, which it claims has successfully cracked Blu-ray discs protected by the BD+ DRM technology. This slap in the face came mere months after its official launch. According to SlySoft: "All available...
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Ex-Microsoft security guru to dump Windows Media Center for LinuxMCE?
- From News.com: "Jesper Johansson--a former senior program manager for security policy at Microsoft who moved to Amazon in September last year--wrote in his blog on Monday that he may drop Windows Media Center for LinuxMCE, a free open-source add-on to the Kubuntu desktop operating system, because problems caused by...
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- gBox music service to challenge Apple's iTunes' online dominance
- gBox, the online music service company, will be providing online DRM free music, along with a nifty new feature that lets users add a wish list of songs to their blogs/profiles so that they can be "gifted" with the music. Here's a quote...
- Blog posts 2007-08-25
- From DRM to watermarking â€" End of copyright flaws or dawn of privacy nightmares?
- Music publishers are making the transfer from DRM to digital watermarking of music. While DRM definitely had no supporters due to enforced limitations on fair use, watermarking is at the crossroads of what can be an immense opportunity for publishers to create an open model for revenue or a privacy...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Webcomic: The future of DRM
- The gang at xkcd sketch a bibliophile's nightmare in the form of futuristic DRM -- which makes mere RFID and anticopying tech look downright friendly in comparison. Hopefully, Borders, the RIAA, and/or Homeland Security isn't reading. by Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Microsoft aims to make file sharing profitable
- A Microsoft patent just revealed shows Redmond's plans to make file sharing a music industry revenue stream. Zunescene found the patent, which could be added to new music playing devices. It would force royalty payment after three plays of a copied track and would give the source...
- Blog posts 2007-07-14
- Sony faces yet more legal issues
- Sony's lawyers have been earning their paychecks lately as the embattled giant received another patent infringement lawsuit, this time from Target Technology Company, who alleges that Sony's Blu-Ray discs use materials that are covered under US patent law. Sony recently settled a lawsuit for $97 million over its "rumble" function...
- Blog posts 2007-05-26
- Another strike against DRM: Amazon weighs in for better digital downloads
- The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon.com will launch a digital music store later this year, selling all songs in MP3 format with no digital rights management hindering use of the music files. This follows last month's announcement by EMI, facing falling revenues and large drops in CD...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Record companies continue to deny reality
- First let me say, I am all for artists getting paid for their creative endeavors. I don't want to see anyone get cut out of what they have earned. But this recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts strikes me as a continuation of the wrong thinking record...
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Geek Trivia: Davy Jones' shocker
- What unlikely item was perfectly preserved when the Alvin DSV sank in 1968? The most famous scientific submersible ever to share a name with an animated chipmunk was officially commissioned forty-two years ago this week. On June 5, 1964, the deep submergence vehicle DSV Alvin entered into...
- Technical articles 2006-06-06
- Linus turns up his nose at GPL 3 because of DRM
- I'll say this about Linus Torvalds ... at least the guy has got some integrity. Even when I don't agree with positions, it's refreshing to see someone with so much technical and business influence who isn't afraid to go against the grain, swim upstream, and occasionaly pee into the wind....
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
- Is Sony's rootkit just the tip of the iceberg?
- Jonathan Yarden has remained uncharacteristically quiet on the recent Sony BMG copy protection controversy, but now he's breaking his silence and weighing in. Get his take on Sony's surreptitious rootkit, and see why he says it's only part of a much larger security problem. By now, I would bet...
- Technical articles 2005-12-09
- Will Sony's PS3 Suffer?
- With all the news surrounding Sony's DRM rootkit debacle, what kind of impact will this have on its PS3 sales?This post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-12-05
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