Archive for 'DRM'
Wal-Mart Wimps out of Online Video Sales
How you know when your business has really been a flop? When, you drop it, and it’s only a week later that people realized that you’re no longer in it. That’s the case with Wal-Mart, which pulled out of online video sales on December 21st with a short note to its customers on the Wal-Mart [...]
Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Apple, Business, DRM, Entertainment.
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Fox Movies for your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV
According to the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox, Fox is getting ready to rent movies to Apple’s iTunes users. This come as no great surprise since Apple has been planning on going into the movie rental business for months now.
The story doesn’t go into any details. [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2007 under Apple, DRM, DVD, Entertainment, HDTV, Media Extender.
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Certified for Vista is Certifiably Stupid
Whether you like Microsoft one bit, you have to admit Microsoft is pretty darn bright at some thinygs–Excel, Windows XP SP 2, rolling over its competition–but when it comes to multimedia and DRM (Digital Rights Management), Microsoft is dumber than dumb. An excellent case in point is its transformation of Playsforsure into Certified for Windows [...]
Posted: December 15th, 2007 under DRM, Entertainment, Microsoft.
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One Small Step against DRM
One advantage of the Apple TV is that if your DVDs are stored on a server you can watch any or all of them without ever bothering to put a DVD in your player again. The trick was, of course, how to get your DVD into your computer in the first place. Well, actually, that’s [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2007 under Apple, DRM, DVD, Entertainment, Media Extender.
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