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9/23/2005 Back when the studios and technology companies were negotiating the details of what became the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, computer and hardware makers were adamant that the law contain no specific technological mandates.

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DRM Criticism? What Criticism? And Other Wikipedia Fun

Some of them are totally amusing and immature. For example, someone from the New York Times modified a comment to his entry of "jerk jerk jerk jerk" to "jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk" and more jerks.

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Fox decodes Apple DRM for DVD downloadable copies

JAN. 15 | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will be significantly expanding its slate of releases embedded with digital copies, after securing the ability to use Apple’s digital rights management technology. The first titles are Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest (pictured), which streeted today,

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OPINION: Retail suggestion

Amazon’s biggest challenge as it seeks to enter the online music market is not overcoming the record labels’ use of DRM. It might have been perfectly happy to use DRM in fact, so long as everyone used the same one. But everyone doesn’t.

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OPINION: The Content/Technology Agenda for 2008

Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda JAN. 4 | The International Consumer Electronics Show has become a major meeting place for the technology and entertainment industries, sometimes to cooperate, sometimes to argue, sometimes just to look each other over.

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Glickman calls for digital rights meeting

APRIL 23 | In his first public address on the increasingly controversial topic, Motion Picture Assn.

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OPINION: Piracy billing

Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda DEC. 14 | WASHINGTON—The most ambitious intellectual property bill since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act got its first hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. One reason the bill has not encountered dug-in opposition is that both sides have

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Google to close Video download service

AUG. 13 | Google’s decision to close its online video download service this week sparked an Internet uproar, as users will no longer be able to view their digital rights management-protected TV and movie downloads bought from the site.

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Jobs Imagines a world without DRM

Yesterday Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted a statement on Apple.com calling for an end to DRM for music, arguing that DRM has done little to stop piracy and noting that most music downloads sold worldwide in 2006 were DRM-free (20 billion DRM-free songs vs. 2 billion DRM songs.

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THE DOWN LOW

BusinessWeek reports that News Corp. is working to add a feature to MySpace that would allow users to embed Fox TV shows and videos on their MySpace home pages for sharing. Fox would then sell advertising that would run with those embedded videos, creating a potentially huge new source of revenues.

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