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DRM and You: How to Break the Cycle
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One person who called in to the live show the other night had some pretty tough questions for me about DRM. He asked my thoughts on the direction of DRM technologies and the perceived war on consumers by media giants… mostly [...]
iPad DRM Thoughts
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Dylan feels that the iPad is a step back in content consumption, due to the fact that there is DRM all over it. We’ve tried so hard to move away from the DRM environment. He points out that the Marvel Comic [...]
Build Your Dream Computer
I noticed a post on Lockergnome earlier that made me chuckle a little. The poster asks everyone whether they would buy a Windows machine or a Mac if they had up to one thousand dollars to spend. I can already picture the responses to that question: fanboys on both sides of the coin arguing with [...]
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother: DRM-Free Audio Book
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Cory Doctorow has written a new audio book, entitled “Little Brother”. He sent me the following email to give us all a peek at the plot, and to explain something very important and ground-breaking about this book. Plot Synopsis Marcus, a.k.a [...]
Buying Music ala Carte vs Renting with Subscriptions
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Googler888 writes: “I’ve been a hardcore iTunes song buyer for a couple of years now, and boy has it been great. I know Chris loves using subscription-based song services like Rhapsody and Napster, so I am hoping to start a war [...]
DRM and Greed
Bruce Munro has been listening – and my videos on DRM and the future of the RIAA really set him off: Before the RIAA can get back the business, they might want to look at what got them here. In the 60′s and 70′s, a 50 cent 45 RPM record was a promotional item, meant [...]
Top 5 Tips to Save the RIAA and the Music Industry
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed With the advent of DRM, the music industry is increasingly losing serious amounts of profits. Piracy is at an all-time high, and there’s no end in sight. What can be done to help the music industry save themselves? Here are five [...]
DRM is Depressing
DRM makes people sad, depressed, confused… Hey chris, my name is Lucas Oliveiro, I am from Malaysia. First I’d like to say what a big fan I am of your work and what you do, I always wanted to ask questions but didn’t know how to go about it till I saw one of your [...]
PC to HDTV HDMI Connection
Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ – Roy asks why, when he connects his PC to his HDTV via the HDMI connector, he can’t see videos play back on his screen. The problem is DRM: if you set the HDMI-out as the default monitor on Windows, then the videos will play. Windows Media Player only [...]
What is DRM?
Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ – Clone69 wants to know wha exactly DRM is. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it’s a piece of code that is intended to help curb content piracy. The problem is that DRM is a colossal failure: It annoys users Gets in their way It’s not a good [...]
Today’s Blogosphere
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Windows Media DRM is Corrupted
So, I’m getting ready for a trip to Colorado Springs for my future brother-in-law’s nuptuals. I figured I’d give the Clix a shot with Urge. I fire up the Windows Media Player and… blammo: “Your Windows Media DRM is Corrupted.” *sigh* I love DRM. It’s awesome. DRM is teh shiz. I want to make love [...]
Buying Digital Content at Gnomedex
Ethan Kaplan (no relation to Pud) wants to talk about buying digital audio and video: The $39 Dollar Song and 6 Cent Ringtone didn’t really light up the charts on the TechMeme saturated blogosphere, but it is a valid discussion to have, especially when the business of content is exploding as it is (to use [...]
Why DRM Sucks
I’m not the first (and I certainly won’t be the last) person to claim that DRM sucks. But DRM doesn’t stand for “Digital Rights Management.” No, it’s really an acronym for “Dramatic Resource Mangler.” Here’s the problem I’m now running into: I’ve currently got a subscription to Napster, a trial account with Rhapsody, and another [...]
