On July 10th, 2021 with 259 comments
"By 2030, technology will have advanced to the point that even the idea of owning objects might be obsolete," argues a thought-provoking new piece by Gizmodo's...
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On June 12th, 2021 with 44 comments
Today is Record Store Day, an annual event celebrating the culture of independently-owned record stores. And music industry players have said they actually...
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Youtube,
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On September 12th, 2020 with 76 comments
Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow (also a former EFF staffer and activist) explains why he's crowdfunding his new audiobook online. Despite the large...
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On October 12th, 2019 with 16 comments
This year's "International Day Against DRM" is highlighting user-disrespecting restrictions on educational materials.
An anonymous reader quotes the Free...
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On March 17th, 2019 with 86 comments
To avoid copyright claims, "YouTube creators and Twitch streamers have been performing terrible a capella covers of popular songs," reports the Verge:
React...
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On March 10th, 2018 with 265 comments
Slashdot reader David Rothman writes: The oldest public domain publisher in the world, Project Gutenberg, has blocked German users after an outrageous legal...
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On August 6th, 2017 with 73 comments
rgh02 writes:
Earlier this summer, popular YouTube channel Auralnauts received some unfortunate news: Warner/Chappell had filed a monetization claim on their...
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Star Wars Prequels,
Youtube,
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On July 9th, 2017 with 124 comments
The Free Software Foundation's anti-DRM initiative "Defective By Design" argues that since last year's annual Day Against DRM, "we've seen cracks appearing in...
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On July 7th, 2017 with 137 comments
Reader Atticus Rex writes: A high controversial Web standard has received a seal of approval from Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web and its chief...
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The Almighty Buck,
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On June 28th, 2017 with 82 comments
dovf writes: Just got an email from O'Reilly Media that as of today, they are no longer selling individual books or videos online -- rather, they are...
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Media,
Safari,
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On April 24th, 2017 with 172 comments
Many Slashdot readers know Bryan Lunduke as the creator of the humorous "Linux Sucks" presentations at the annual Southern California Linux Exposition. He's...
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GNU is Not Unix,
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On April 10th, 2017 with 316 comments
Manufacturers lock consumers into restrictive "user agreements," and inside "there's things like you won't open the case, you won't repair," complains a U.S....
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On November 21st, 2016 with 126 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Netflix 4K streaming is finally heading to Windows PCs this week. While a number of TVs and set-top-boxes...
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Windows,
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On August 21st, 2016 with 78 comments
It's "an epic sci-fi adventure about the human race's journey into a theoretical technological Singularity." Or is it an "entertainment industry...
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Bitcoin,
DRM,
Media,
Sci-Fi,
Television,
The Almighty Buck,
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On October 13th, 2015 with 301 comments
JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Adding DRM to JPEG files is being considered by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG), which oversees the JPEG format. The JPEG...
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On July 4th, 2015 with 140 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is building its new browser, Edge, with the intention of avoiding many of the flaws that plagued Internet Explorer over...
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Media,
Microsoft,
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Index
On July 3rd, 2015 with 40 comments
New submitter ste7en7 writes: A new Australian ISP is integrating geo-blocking circumvention into its broadband service, allowing customers to access streaming...
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Australia,
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Media,
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On May 7th, 2015 with 369 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Green Mountain (Keurig) stock dropped by 10% this morning after a brutal earnings report. The reason? CNN Money reports that DRM...
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DRM,
The Almighty Buck,
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On January 3rd, 2015 with 437 comments
An anonymous reader sends this unfortunate report from TorrentFreak: Due to complicated licensing agreements Netflix is only available in a few dozen...
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Media,
Movies,
Television,
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Index
On July 16th, 2014 with 87 comments
Nate the greatest (2261802) writes "Details are still scarce but it looks like Amazon is going to be launching a competitor to Scribd and Oyster. Earlier today...
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On May 18th, 2014 with 406 comments
JimLynch (684194) writes "Mozilla has been in the news quite a lot over the last few months. This time the organization is being hammered by open source...
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On May 17th, 2014 with 403 comments
New submitter ptr_88 writes: "The Free Software Foundation has opposed Mozilla's move to support DRM in the Firefox browser, partnering with Adobe to do so....
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Firefox,
Mozilla,
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On May 14th, 2014 with 361 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Last year the W3C approved the inclusion of DRM in future HTML revisions. It's called Encrypted Media Extensions, and it was not...
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Firefox,
DRM,
Media,
Mozilla,
Index
On May 7th, 2014 with 252 comments
netbuzz writes: "The worst of DRM is set to infest law school casebooks. One publisher, AspenLaw, wants students to pay $200 for a bound casebook, but at the...
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DRM,
Books,
Businesses,
Education,
The Almighty Buck,
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On April 30th, 2014 with 347 comments
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of Dreamworks Animation, speaking at the Milken Global Conference in California, opined that the...
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The Media,
DRM,
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On February 4th, 2014 with 304 comments
Nate the greatest writes "Whether it's EA and SimCity, the Sony rootkit scandal, or Ubisoft, we've all read numerous stories about companies using DRM in...
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Index
On July 10th, 2013 with 221 comments
Nerval's Lobster writes "In 2009, when Apple dropped the Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions from songs sold through the iTunes Store, it seemed like...
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Music,
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On June 27th, 2013 with 433 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Web technologies need to support DRM-protected media to reduce the risk of parts of the web being walled off, the chief executive...
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Media,
Software,
IT,
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On May 31st, 2013 with 212 comments
Presto Vivace writes "In a blog post, danps explains how the music industry initially thought that the Internet meant that people wanted their music for free....
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On May 11th, 2013 with 268 comments
Underholdning writes "DRM is coming to HTML5. The W3C published a working draft yesterday of the framework that will support the use of DRM-protected media....
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