derek | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2006 | hdcp, hd-dvd, blu-ray, consumer rights, movies
Quoted: GamesIndustry.biz article: Top movie studios look set to delay the HDCP copy protection system - which would only work on next-gen DVD players with HDMI ports, unlike the low-end PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 HD-DVD peripheral - for four to six years.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2006 | eff, dmca, drm, consumer rights
Quoted: Now Congress is considering the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, HR 1201), a bill that would reform part of the DMCA and formally protect the "Betamax defense" relied on by so many innovators.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 15 2006 | blu-ray, hdcp, drm, consumer rights, hdtv, news
Hmmm, not sure I'm ready to trust anything out of Sony's mouth (PS3 in Spring '06 ring a bell?), but this seems like good news. Very good news.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 14 2006 | france, drm, itunes, apple, consumer rights, digital music, news
Quoted: France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto ...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 03 2006 | drm, consumer rights
Quoted: Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?
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