For the music industry, DRM might have started out being an antipiracy measure, but these days, it’s becoming increasingly clear that it’s used by the labels as a way of manipulating the market. The labels have largely prevented Apple from offering DRM-free music via iTunes, apparently because they are concerned with Cupertino’s dominance of the [...]

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The MPAA is petitioning the FCC to lard cable television with “selectable output control,” a DRM system that allows broadcasters to specify which of your TV devices can decode which shows. With selectable output control, parts of your home theater would go dark as you flipped up and down the dial: this show won’t play [...]

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MIT dropped its subscription to the database of past articles from the Society of Automotive Engineer because SAE had was using anti-copying DRM technology on the papers that made them less useful for scientists and researchers. After a presentation from an MIT professor about the boycott, the SAE publication board eliminated DRM for its papers:
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The BBC appears to have inadvertently removed the controversial DRM from its iPlayer video-on-demand service. Now, all BBC programs are broadcast across the country in digital form without DRM, literally diffused at the speed of light in all directions without any restrictions, but the Beeb somehow believes that there’s a new risk of piracy created [...]

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