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Why I joined the EFF

21 February 2007

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Recently, I joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Some might equate the EFF the ACLU of the digital world. So, those of you that know my political leanings might ask, why? Let me try to explain.
Regular readers of this blog know that I work in the telecommunications industry. Specifically, for the [...]

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Macrovision CEO asks Apple to hand over FairPlay

17 February 2007 Apple

Fred Amoroso, CEO and President of Macrovision, responded to Steve Jobs’ open letter on Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. Amoroso published his comments on his company’s Web site, as an open letter. In it, Amoroso suggests, that Macrovision take over stewardship of Apple’s own DRM technology.
Amoroso’s letter addresses what he considers to be [...]

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The slow death of DRM

16 February 2007 Apple

From The Register — According to Steve Gordon, attorney and former Director of Business Affairs, TV and Video at Sony Music for ten years, the DRM walls are crumbling. Earlier this week, Steve Jobs called on the major record labels to allow online music sales unfettered by digital rights management restrictions. Today, EMI is in [...]

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Study: P2P effect on legal music sales “not statistically distinguishable from zero”

16 February 2007 DRM

According to an article by Ken Fisher over at Ars Technica, “A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.”
The study compared the logs [...]

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Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD broken – processing keys extracted

13 February 2007 Content

Cory Doctorow has posted an article on BoingBoing discussing the recent news that the processing keys for AACS, the DRM system used by Blu-Ray and HD-DVD have been extracted. This allows the content on EVERY Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to be decrypted. This news builds on the recent news that the volume keys [...]

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AACS Hack Blamed on Bad Player Implementation

29 January 2007 DRM

Ars Technica article. According to a statement from the AACS LA, AACS has not been seriously compromised.
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AACS Attack: a Clear and Present Danger to DRM

29 January 2007 DRM

Group that represents AACS downplays attack, however reality presents a stark future.
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