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DRM
Music Phones A “New Front” In The War On Piracy
10.28.05 | Permalink | Comments OffThe British music industry says music phones pose a huge threat to them because they’ll let kids share music without their computers. It’s another silly argument — people that pirate music will do it over whatever medium’s available. If one of their friends can’t send a song to their phone over Bluetooth, they’ll get it [...]
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DRM
Why DRM Will Kill Mobile Music
Another cross-post, this one from MobHappy on how the music industry is setting mobile music up to fail by instituting pointless and irritating DRM.
“You’ve got the record industry bitching about how file sharing — and now CD burning — is destroying their industry, therefore they need stronger DRM. As is par for the course, they’ve [...]
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DRM
Microsoft DRM Extended to Palm OS
07.18.05 | Permalink | Comments OffA small developer called Normsoft has released a Palm app that can play files protected with Microsoft’s Janus DRM. allowing for compatibility with services like Napster to Go, Yahoo Music Unlimited and Real Rhapsody.
It’s another interesting development that furthers the belief that Microsoft may end up dominating the portable and mobile music market, thanks to [...]
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DRM, Mobile Operators, Services
O2 Signs Musician To Exclusive Contract
07.06.05 | Permalink | Comments OffHalf of UK dance duo Groove Armada will supply operator O2 with exclusive tracks for its customers to download, says the Guardian, “in an attempt to gain control over digital downloading”. Musician Andy Cato will supply O2 with 2 tracks available only to its customers per week, which will sell for GBP 1, with the [...]
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DRM
Support For “iPod Tax” Grows
05.17.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFollowing a move in the Netherlands to impose a fee of 3.28 euros per gigabyte on MP3 players to reimburse copyright holders for “lost” revenue, support for a similar move in the UK is growing among record labels. Digital Music News quotes a former label boss as saying illegal downloads are “in danger of crippling [...]
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DRM
OMA DRM Battle Rages On
05.05.05 | Permalink | Comments OffThe GSM Association has thrown the latest punch in the back-and-forth fight over the licensing fees for the OMA DRM standard, saying the revised terms offered by licensing firm MPEG LA are “still unacceptable”.
The GSMA press release is an interesting bit of posturing — it says it’s received 14 proposals for alternate DRM solutions, and [...]
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Content Providers, DRM, Ringtones, Stats
Loose Ends
04.25.05 | Permalink | Comments OffBits and pieces from last week, mostly:
- US mobile content rating system in the works: The trade group of US mobile operators wants to define a standardized content rating and filtering system, not only to make it that much more difficult for kids to see porn, but to also pave the way for them to [...]
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DRM
OMA DRM Rates Cut, But Maybe Not Enough
04.13.05 | Permalink | Comments OffFollowing earlier criticism of the pricing scheme for the patents necessary for OMA DRM, MPEG LA said today is would cut the rates to 65 cents per handset (down from $1) and 25 cents per subscriber per year, instead of 1 percent of every transaction involving content with the DRM.
The cuts represent some savings, but [...]
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DRM
OMA DRM Troubles Could Forestall Mobile Music Market
04.04.05 | Permalink | Comments OffI posted something over at TheFeature about how mobile operators have joined handset vendors in objecting to the pricing of OMA DRM. This is a potentially significant development for the mobile music market, as OMA DRM 2.0 was supposed to unite the industry on a single DRM technology which would also cross over to PCs [...]
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