Steve Jobs zum Thema DRM
am 07.02.2007 von http://streitsache.blogspot.comSo if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music. If such requirements were removed, the music industry might …
Music industry might get it after all
Aktenvermerk / It seems that music giant EMI is experimenting with selling unrestricted, regular MP3 files. It’s probably high time, too: According to Paul Myers of the Brithish site Wippit, they sell 4 times as many regular MP3s as DRM-encumbered files. Let&…
The customer is always wrong
Aktenvermerk / Interessanter Artikel der Elctronic Frontier Foundation über Online Music und Digital Rights Management. Verglichen werden iTunes, Miscrosoft, Real Networks und Napster 2. In other words, in this brave new world of “authorized music servi…
Steve Jobs ist gegen DRM
medien-gerecht / Steve Jobs ist gegen DRM. Das hat er in einem gerade veröffentlichten Text auf der Firmenhomepage bekanntgegeben. Darin analysiert er zunächst die aktuelle Situation, die sich wie folgt umreißen lässt: Die Plattenfirmen haben Appl…
Should iPod users be punished?
Aktenvermerk / This and seven other questions the BBC posed to various high-level representatives of the British music industry, namely John Kennedy (chairman and chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI), Peter Jamieson (e…
OECD Studie Musik und Internet
Aktenvermerk / Schon am Freitag hatte orf.at berichtet, heute Montag wurde die dazugehörige Studie “Digital Broadband content: music” veröffentlicht. Darin versucht die OECD an das Thema “Online-Music” neutral heranzugehen und das…
DRM & Yahoo
IP|Notiz / Über die Unzuverlässigkeitsproblematik bei DRM-geschützten Files hatten wir bereits berichtet. Einen neuen Song zur alten Melodie liefert jetzt Yahoo!. The Yahoo! Music Store, along with the ability to purchase and download single songs and album…
Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagt: Urheberrecht ist tot
IP|Notiz / Prof. Faulhaber (University of Philadelphia) mit einem Statement, das uns irritiert: “Copyright is a very big issue in the legal world today, but in the business world, when you talk to consumers about protecting copyrights, it’s a dead i…
German rap music / Deutsche Rapper
Transblawg / The mysterious Abnu of Wordlab pointed out to me that there was an article on German rap in the New York Times this week. Bushido’s music has been labelled only suitable for those over 18. German parents and the news...…
Sony Reloaded: The Legal Rootkit
Aktenvermerk / You thought Sony’s “rootkit” copy-protection was bad? You probably haven’t read the 3,000 word (!) End User License Agreement that comes with it, yet: If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your l…
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