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<title>Open Source Consortium to regulators: Stop the BBC's DRM!</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Open_Source_Consortium_to_regulators_Stop_the_BBCs_DRM</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:
The UK Open Source Consortium has complained to British regulators about the BBC's decision to use Microsoft DRM for its online TV offerings. No one is allowed to make Microsoft DRM players without permission from Microsoft, and the company tightly controls which features you're allowed to put into a DRM player, and absolutely prohibits the creation of open/free players for Microsoft DRM-crippled media.

The BBC chose the DRM instead of making good on its promise to deliver an op...]]></description>
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<title>New iTunes steals your ability to turn Apple music into iPod-friendly MP3s</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/New_iTunes_steals_your_ability_to_turn_Apple_music_into_iPodfriendly_MP3s</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:
If you're thinking of downgrading to the new iTunes, stop! The new iTunes breaks the ability to convert the music you've bought -- even "DRM-free" songs sold at a 30 percent premium -- into MP3s that will play on your iPod. 


While cumbersome, the "buy-burn-rip-to-MP3" workaround has been the primary way to start with a 99 cent iTunes download and end up with an unrestricted MP3 that will play on your Squeezebox, your non-iPod portables, or your MP3-enabled DVD player (it's not ...]]></description>
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<title>EFF finds HUGE block of hidden info in new iTunes tracks</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/EFF_finds_HUGE_block_of_hidden_info_in_new_iTunes_tracks</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:
Apple's new DRM-free tracks from the iTunes store not only contain your email address and password in hidden fields, but in at least one case, more than 360k of hidden information. EFF's technologists have found a hidden block of data in the new iTunes tracks:


We compared two DRM-free copies of the track Daftendirekt by Daft Punk. When decoded to PCM/WAV data, both copies produced an identical audio signal (the MD5sum is e40b006497f9b417760ca5015c3fa937). So there is no audio w...]]></description>
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<title>Apple launches DRM-free iTunes Plus</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Apple_launches_DRMfree_iTunes_Plus</link>
<description><![CDATA[The beginning of the end of DRM?]]></description>
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<title>Breaking DVD DRM is legal in Finland</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Breaking_DVD_DRM_is_legal_in_Finland</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:
Herrko writes in with amazing news -- it's legal to break DVD DRM in Finland, because the law only protects "effective" DRM, and DVD DRM is so easy to crack that it no longer qualifies:


Our law firm's client was released as Finnish court today ruled that the charges must be dropped for the two defendants that had "organized discussion" of breaking a technical protection systems.

According to the court, CSS (the DRM on DVDs) no longer achieves its protection objective. The cour...]]></description>
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<title>BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/BBC_Trustees_agree_to_let_BBC_infect_Britain_with_DRM</link>
<description><![CDATA[The BBC has turned its back on its promise to deliver a remixable, DRM-free archive of its video materials to the British public, citing lame excuses like, "It will cost a lot to negotiate rights," and "It might make us less effective at selling DVDs to Americans." Instead, it has opted for the "iPlayer," a crippling technology that infects PCs and makes them incapable of saving and using some of the files on their hard-drives.]]></description>
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<title>EMI Music launches DRM-free iTunes downloads in higher-quality</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/EMI_Music_launches_DRMfree_iTunes_downloads_in_higherquality</link>
<description><![CDATA[Apple today announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just $1.29 per song.]]></description>
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<title>YouTube to Offer BBC Videos</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/YouTube_to_Offer_BBC_Videos</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's a week of contrasts: BBC signs a deal with Google to distribute British TV to the world via the web. Contrast that with ABC/Disney/Academy Awards, which demanded that Oscar clips be removed from YouTube ... even though the Academy was not planning to re-use them (no DVD) nor was it showing them on its own website.]]></description>
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<title>Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Fair_Use_Bill_Introduced_In_Congress</link>
<description><![CDATA[A first-step counterpoint to the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998?  U.S. Rep. Rich Boucher (D-VA.) and John Dolittle (R-CA) have introduced the "The FAIR USE  Act" (long title: Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act -- don't  ya love how bill names conveniently add up to a catchy acronym?).]]></description>
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<title>EMI may end digital copy protection</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/EMI_may_end_digital_copy_protection</link>
<description><![CDATA[However, industry insiders believed that EMI was getting cold feet, because the plan could lead to a precipitate drop in its already flagging revenues. The decision would leave its entire catalogue without any protection in the digital era.

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<title>Steve Jobs blogs about DRM</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Steve_Jobs_blogs_about_DRM</link>
<description><![CDATA[There's a lot more Apple could be doing if they really wanted a DRM-free world. Jobs is trying to play both sides of the fence here - but at least he's firing a salvo at the record companies.]]></description>
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<title>Blu-Ray Cracked</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/BluRay_Cracked</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Blu-ray DRM system has been broken, although details are scant. It's the same person who broke the HD DVD system last month. (Both use AACS.)]]></description>
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<title>Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Want_an_iPhone_Beware_the_iHandcuffs</link>
<description><![CDATA[Excellent story about the problems with digital rights management hurting consumers in online music sales. Great article.]]></description>
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<title>Giving It Away - Cory Doctorow Does</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Giving_It_Away__Cory_Doctorow_Does</link>
<description><![CDATA[A tiny minority of downloaders treat the free e-book as a substitute for the printed book--those are the lost sales. But a much larger minority treat the e-book as an enticement to buy the printed book. They're gained sales. As long as gained sales outnumber lost sales, I'm ahead of the game.]]></description>
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<title>Open PVR from Neuros: cash money to owners who hack it</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Open_PVR_from_Neuros_cash_money_to_owners_who_hack_it</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cory's linking to this super cool open PVR. The future is bright as open source hardware developers like Neuros build products for the open source community to expand and enhance.]]></description>
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