The whole notion of DRM took a tiny bashing today as users' rights won out over those of copyright holders. First up: Jailbreaking iPhones is now legal.READ»
Lala, the music streaming company bought by Apple at the end of 2009, will be dead in a month. It posted a message on its Web site last night to that effect, that said, "Lala is shutting down on May 31. Unfortunately, we are accepting ...READ»
Apple's iPad went on pre-order for the lucky Amer'cans today (the rest of us have to wait an interminable extra week or so) but Apple also revealed a little more about its iBooks effort. Guess what? It's surprisingly ...READ»
Remember RealDVD, that famous piece of paid software that let you simply and easily let you make a fair copy of a DVD onto your PC's harddrive as a "personal" backup? It's been killed by Hollywood's lawyers, very finally indeed. ...READ»
The lack of Flash capability in the iPhone's Mobile Safari browser has been a bone of contention for many naysayers for years, even if Apple's made its case pretty well. It seems the iPad won't have it either, and Adobe is ...READ»
Viacom's general counsel says that suing people for file-sharing is "expensive, and it's painful, and it feels like bullying."
Speaking to a group of Yale law students, Michael Fricklas admitted that "it felt like terrorism" when ...READ»
Pro-copyright activists celebrated while file-sharers cried at rulings on the Pirate Bay's illegality, and the subsequent attempts to sink the site. But some new data suggests piracy sites tripled in the aftermath, which really ...READ»
In an unprecedented move for a digital news agency, the Associated Press announced this afternoon that it will tag and track all AP content online to ensure that it is re-used under that agency's terms of use.
The registry technology ...READ»
There's a delightful irony in this: Metallica, long-term DRM advocates, iTunes hold-outs, and MP3 haters, are releasing a branded jacket that includes Skullcandy speakers and--horror of horrors--an iPod dock connector.
The M4 jacket ...READ»
Palm's Chairman, speaking at the D7 conference yesterday, confirmed that the Palm Pre has a neat trick: It syncs with iTunes just like an iPod would. While that's handy, Apple isn't likely to tolerate the situation for too ...READ»
It's been a tough year for Redmond: bricking Zunes, class-action suits, and the people-hate-Vista debacle. You'd think those three catapstrophes would be enough to make the PC giant shape up. You'd be wrong.
Microsoft [MSFT], it ...READ»
This morning's rumors were almost exactly bang on. As a surprise "one more one more thing" at the end of his Macworld Keynote, Phil Schiller dropped the news that iTunes was going to drop digital rights management for its music track ...READ»
