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Welcome back!You would think that by now everybody knows how DRM kills your sales.
Panasonic doesn’t:
“Panasonic Digital Still Cameras now include a technology that can identify a genuine Panasonic battery. For the protection of our customers Panasonic developed this technology after it was discovered that some aftermarket 3rd party batteries do not meet the rigid safety [...]
You may have heard that the latest Harry Potter book has appeared in digital form before its release, people have published digital photographs of the books pages.
Now The Times reports that the camera owner may be identifiable thorugh the pictures EXIF data:
“By examining the vital information – or ‘metadata’ – built into each photo, the [...]
Don’t you hate it that APple makes movies. TV shows and even some songs available exclusively via the US store? Jenneth from Gear Diary has a solution:
“Lucky for me, a recently-discovered workaround lets Aussie users buy TV shows and movies through the iTunes US store – just sign up for PayPal using a US address! [...]
WHOAH!
“London, 2 April 2007 — EMI Music today announced that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.
The new higher quality DRM-free music will complement EMI’s existing [...]
Tim Marman reports on streamburst.tv’s DRM system (quote by TechCrunch):
“Instead of handcuffing viewers who want to view films they purchase on multiple devices and otherwise use content legitimately in ways DRM blocks – Streamburst takes two steps to prevent movie piracy.
The first is that every film begins with a 5 second [...]
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Steve Jobs openly takes a position against DRM
“Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all [...]
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GUI version and library conversion routines by ATOM_alac. Support for iTunes 7.0.1 and 7.0.2. Fast dumping for iTunes 7.x. Patch offsets are now specified in an external file. Invalid m4a files which were sometimes produced by 2.4 are now detected and reconverted. List of protected files is now retrieved from the XML library file.read more | digg [...]
It just won’t stop: PSPUpdates reports that shortly after the universal “Hello World” app there now is a working downgrader for Firmware 2.71.
When will they ever learn – maybe they should take a lesson from how far people are ready to go when they even are ready to downgrade functionality in order to gain freedom.
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- Tags: downgrader, drm, psp
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