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    • Open Source Consortium to regulators: Stop the BBC's DRM!

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      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...

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    • New iTunes steals your ability to turn Apple music into iPod-friendly MP3s

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

      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 ...

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    • EFF finds HUGE block of hidden info in new iTunes tracks

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

      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...

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    • Breaking DVD DRM is legal in Finland

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

      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...

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    • BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM

      Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing

      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.

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      EMI Music launches DRM-free iTunes downloads in higher-quality

      Posted by Jeff from Appleinsider

      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.

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    Kathy comments on:

    YouTube to Offer BBC Videos

    Here’s my commentary on the Oscar bit plus a blurb on FAIR USE, a new bill in Congress.

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    10:14 pm 3/02/07
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    rhoehn comments on:

    Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress

    This is LONG overdue!

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    11:12 pm 2/28/07
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    Kathy comments on:

    Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress

    Ars Technica is skeptical. They provide background on prior versions of this bill and how those bills imploded when they hit the wall that is the recording industry.

    Even the press release from Broucher’s office says:

    “In an effort to address the concerns expressed by content owners, the FAIR USE Act does not contain provisions which would have established a fair use defense to the act of circumvention.

    The legislation instead contains specific exemptions to section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which do not pose a comparable potential threat to their business models.”

    Not holding my breath.

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    11:03 am 2/28/07
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