One of the reasons for 20 years of goodness – people collaborating to produce outstanding CC-ed content. See e.g. the PCLinuxOS magazine and – specifically for the Ubuntu Linux community – Full Circle magazine. Time to shout out it is for me, especially as they’re highlighting Calibre and other ebook software this time. Calibre is […]
At Knowledge @ Wharton there’s an interesting (interview and) podcast (“A World without DRM”) on the business model implications of Apples stance against Restrictions Management (here’s the mp3). The issue of using hardware- or software-based digital rights management, or “DRM”, to restrict how music and movies can be copied or shared has spurred fierce debate […]
[…] some DRM-based business model innovations may go down (and then, who cares or likes nifty-smarty pricing schemes that depend on DRM etc. when all that is really needed is simplicity of use), but there will be other chances for business model innovations in the music industry … Updating my take on Jobs’ Thoughts on […]
Interesting article at Techdirt on the problems with DRM … noting amongst other gems that the lack of restrictive technologies such as DRM that has spurred digital media adoption. DRM by its very definition restricts flexibility, not encourages it. Oh yes, in the end DRM is about making content owners happy, not consumers … still […]
Prodigem takes bit torrent (p2p) and simplifies the way of publishing and distributing content … i wonder if this can be a model for distributing podcasting content as well … The Prodigem Marketplace allows Prodigem users to sell their independent media (videos, music, etc) while not concerning themselves with traditional bandwidth costs associated with repeated […]
tecCHANNEL: RealNetworks emuliert Apples DRM RealNetworks, das beim legalen Verkauf von Online-Musik mit Apples iTunes Music Store konkurriert, hat eine eigene Technik entwickelt, die das von Apple verwendete Digital Rights Management (DRM) ‘Fairplay’ kopiert. ‘Harmony’ emuliert dieses, so dass im RealPlayer Music Store erworbene Musik sich auch im AAC-Format auf Apple iPod übertragen lässt. mehr […]
Cory Doctorow spricht über “jammernde Industrien, die es im Laufe der Geschichte gegeben hat, die darüber klagen, dass jemand anderes ihr Geschäftsmodell kaputt macht” mehr … Zitat “DRM systems don’t work That DRM systems are bad for society That DRM systems are bad for business That DRM systems are bad for artists That DRM is […]
