Digital rights management (DRM) software embedded in some Sony BMG CDs has become a lightning rod for complaints against the measures the music industry is taking to prevent illegal copying. Eight ...

DRM, or Digital Rights Management, lets publishers control how you use the software or content you buy or subscribe to. DRM is commonly seen in music, such as in downloaded tracks from streaming ...

More than a year after iTunes began offering DRM-free music from EMI, Apple is in talks to acquire MP3s from the other top three music labels. Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for ...

Amid much public debate and reports that it could leave consumers wide open for malicious attacks, Sony halt the insertion of anti-piracy software into its CDs. The ...

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And while Kiciński launched GOG with its anti-DRM ethos, he’s been away from both companies for the last 13 years, and it was unknown if he might take the now independent storefront in a new direction ...

A security expert who once worked for Microsoft has said he may dump the company's Windows Media Center in favor of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE after struggling with the software giant's digital-rights ...

Nokia Corp. has agreed to license Microsoft Corp.’s new PlayReady DRM (digital rights management) technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software.