Tag Archives: drm

Buy Our Product Or We’ll Sue!!! - Part 2

By ray | July 12, 2007

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070711-library-of-congress-asked-to-pull-webcasting-licenses.html
Ars Technica is reporting that Media Rights Technologies is at it again. This is the company that threatened to sue some companies because they didn’t do enough to stop ripping internet streams. Their solution was to use/buy their product. Those lawsuits still haven’t come to pass but now they’re asking the library of congress to [...]

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DRM Free Music and Paul McCartney Arrive on iTunes

By ray | May 30, 2007

Along with the iTunes update Apple added DRM-free music and Paul McCartney’s collection (not the Beatles) to the iTunes store. The FAQ says the DRM free music is available in all countries that have an iTunes store. This appears to have made iTunes very popular. The store is slow for me and my attempt to [...]

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Apple Updates Quicktime Security and iTunes DRM

By ray | May 30, 2007

Apple has released updates for both Quicktime and iTunes. The updates are for the software on both Windows and OS X.
The Quicktime patch is a security update that patches two vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious website to either run code on a computer or get infomation from a computer.
Apple also released an update to [...]

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Buy Our Product Or We’ll Sue!!!

By ray | May 11, 2007

My first reaction was this was a new low for our legal system. But after reading the article I realized it’s still on the fringes and that system seems ready to laugh them out of court, should they decide to go there.
Two companies (one is a subsidiary of the other, so just one bonehead decision [...]

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Bits and Pieces

By ray | April 15, 2007

Another week has gone by. It being tax time and all (yea I waited) I didn’t have time to put together any additional articles but I do have a bunch of little things I’ve either started or have noticed around the web. Rather than a lot of small posts, or ignoring them completely, I decided [...]

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