Tag Archives: drm

guardian.co.uk – Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug

As tends to be the case, so on your side Cory Doctorow.

March 8, 2011 – 11:49 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Wired – The Age of Music Piracy Is Officially Over

Totally agree, steal­ing music is only for the peo­ple who are being stu­pidly cheap.

December 5, 2010 – 9:17 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Boing Boing – Brazil’s copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use

Brazil has decent copy­right laws that bal­ance both copy­right hold­ers and nor­mal individuals.

July 12, 2010 – 11:07 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

2009 O’Reilly Ebook Revenue up 104% — Tools of Change for Publishing

O’Reilly Ebooks divi­sion made 104% more after drop­ping DRM.

January 24, 2010 – 9:47 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Freedom From Software

Today on the This Week in Tech pod­cast (TWiT), one of their big top­ics that they dis­cussed was DRM or Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment as the Record­ing Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica (RIAA) and the Motion Pic­ture Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica (MPAA) refer to it or the Dig­i­tal Restric­tions Man­age­ment as the Elec­tronic Free­dom Foun­da­tion (EFF). Based on …

September 12, 2006 – 12:09 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (3)