http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-07-03T09:55:20-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/03/goldman_on_recent_doj_warez_group_busts.php Eric Goldman writes about the continued futility of the law enforcement fight against warez groups (Operation Site Down--The Latest Warez Group Bust (vintage 2005)).As I've written previously, the war against warez is ultimately futile. With sufficient enforcement, eventually we can... 6276@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-03T09:55:20-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/25/a_slew_of_articles_from_indicare.php 6219@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-25T13:08:21-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/23/gartenberg_responds_on_ebook_drm_and_potential_dmca_violations.php A couple of days ago I wrote a post about Jupiter Research analyst and DRM-proponent Michael Gartenberg, who had grown so frustrated with Microsoft Reader's ebook DRM that he apparently circumvented the DRM, which is generally illegal under the DMCA... 6178@http://importance.corante.com/ Digital Millennium Copyright Act 2005-06-23T02:38:30-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/more_details_on_latest_cd_drm.php I've written a couple of articles about the CD DRM that major record labels are switching to (Record Companies Intend to Make Criminals of Us All and Record Labels Fear Apple's Lock-In?). Now the Register has more details about the... 6152@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-21T19:52:33-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/drm_proponent_fed_up_with_drm_violates_dmca.php Michael Gartenberg, Jupiter Research analyst and DRM-proponent, has grown fed up with Microsoft Reader's ebook DRM and taken his rights into his own hands (MS Reader DRM Issues Solved... Permanently).While I'm still waiting for MSFT support to help me get... 6151@http://importance.corante.com/ Digital Millennium Copyright Act 2005-06-21T17:38:09-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/drm_mucking_things_up.php Two articles on the havoc DRM is playing on hardware companies. First, ComputerWorld looks at how major standards setting bodies have been adversely affected (Selling Out on Standards). This is an important negative externality of DRM. There have always been... 6138@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-21T06:39:41-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/20/study_drm_to_be_booming_business.php The Hollywood Reporter takes note of a study claiming DRM is going to be a booming business (Study: Copyright Protection Biz a Sleeping Giant).An exhaustive new study is estimating that the digital rights management industry will grow from $600 million... 6133@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-20T19:33:20-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/20/amazons_copy_protected_cd_label_not_good_enough_says_coco_blog.php As I noted last week, the major record labels are increasingly using DRM on audio CDs (Record Companies Intend to Make Criminals of Us All). Amazon has started labeling these CDs as "Copy Protected CD". Constitutional Code says this isn't... 6117@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-20T14:44:43-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/16/drm_proponent_frustrated_by_drm_again.php Jupiter Research analyst and DRM-proponent Michael Gartenberg is once again having trouble with DRM (Microsoft Reader Locks Me Out... Again):Longtime readers will remember the last time Microsoft reader locked me out of my own content. Well, it's done it again.... 6079@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-16T13:41:57-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/16/record_labels_fear_apples_lockin.php In the previous post, I discussed how the record labels' increasing reliance on audio CD DRM would be counter productive (Record Companies Intend to Make Criminals of Us All). There is another aspect to this worth discussing, however. The article... 6074@http://importance.corante.com/ Digital Rights Management 2005-06-16T11:13:53-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/16/record_companies_intend_to_make_criminals_of_us_all.php Pennsylvania's Times-Leader republishes a Mercury News report on the increasing use of DRM for audio CDs by the major labels (Music Industry Eyes 'Casual Piracy'). What disturbs me is the way that the music industry is now framing the argument:The... 6073@http://importance.corante.com/ File Sharing 2005-06-16T10:40:05-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/16/macrovisions_magical_drm_that_drastically_reduces_p2p_distribution.php Well, my last two posts have been about Macrovision's copy-protection, this one might as well be too. See, Macrovision Invokes DMCA for Analog Copy-Protection Technology and Mark Cuban Has Questions About the Macrovision DMCA Lawsuit. Anyway, the copy-protection scheme that... 6071@http://importance.corante.com/ Digital Millennium Copyright Act 2005-06-16T02:35:28-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/15/and_they_get_wellpaid_for_writing_this_stuff.php Datamonitor is a "premium business information company specialising in industry analysis". They've recently released a report on DRM adoption that seems rather clueless, but will certainly please many of their clients (23 Million European Households to Share Rich Media Across... 6063@http://importance.corante.com/ Digital Rights Management 2005-06-15T14:28:36-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/13/mccullagh_and_homsi_on_drm_laws.php Declan McCullagh has co-authored a paper on DRM with Milana Homsi (New Article on Digital Rights Management: Survey of Laws and Their Problems). Read the 12-page paper: Leave DRM Alone: A Survey of Legislative Proposals Relatingto Digital Rights Management Technology... 6038@http://importance.corante.com/ Digital Rights Management 2005-06-13T22:51:44-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/13/drm_holding_back_connected_home_consumer_electronics_market.php The Industry Analyst Reporter notes a report from Strategy Analytics that DRM is holding back consumer electronics companies from entering a 144-million device "connected home" market (DRM Conflicts Delay Lucrative 144 Million Device Market, Says Strategy Analytics).According to the report,... 6025@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-13T07:57:33-08:00