http://www.thedrmblog.com ALL THINGS DRM | A Discussion About Digital Rights Management Technologies | Commercial Use Of DRM Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:46:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The guy who was on the end of the red Hotline DRM Breach Team phone at Microsoft has moved on to Adobe. Joe was responsible for Microsoft's well known breach responses to the Windows Media Rights Manager Platform. You may remember Joe from such great events as the WMRM plug ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=117 Late last week Discretix put this announcement to the market in advance of, I presume, IBC. We are starting to see real churn in the marketplace for PlayReady support across devices outside the PC/Intel Mac world. With NetFlix using PlayReady on the iPad, and now support for PlayReady in ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=113 Back in July the market learned that BBC's Project Canvas had selected the Marlin DRM technology as their go to market content protection offering. I think that a mid-summer announcement like this combined with Marlin as the chosen DRM schema may be why so many outlets in our space missed ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=114 You may or may not be aware RealNetworks was trying to keep a product in the market they had released called "RealDVD." This product let users make permanent copies of DVDs under a couple restrictions that included for example the number of PC's you could watch the copies on. Real ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=107 Many of you have been asking me in emails lately: "What is the difference between Silverlight DRM and Smoooth DRM?" The answer is quite simple. Silverlight DRM is a DRM schema based on PlayReady DRM that supports encryption of Windows Media Content for decryption and playback via the Silverlight ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=105 UPDATE 07.28.09: Irdeto's Marketing Communications partner the Race Point Group, has been working to get a call going with myself and Alex Rassey. He is the Head of Group Marketing Worldwide at Irdeto and formerly the VP of Marketing at Entriq. Once we complete this call, I will update this ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=104 Update: 1530CST: The press release link is now live again on the Entriq site as well as the "News" Section. From my sources, it appears there was a small dustup over the release between Widevine and Synchrous, their reseller in Taiwan. I doubt we will ever hear what truly ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=101 We were contacted yesterday by someone "in the know" who provided us this update on the fate of Entriq: "Christopher, Entriq was folded into Irdeto and is now called Irdeto Digital Media Solutions. They have changed their position to focus on "Content Management" which you can see from the following link: ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=99 Apparently, with or without DRM, the music industry is moving ahead. In light of the Universal/Virgin announcement yesterday, Nokia is apparently moving forward with their DRM-enabled "Comes With Music" offering. According to Digital Music News It really is interesting how some of these news outlets are so fixated on DRM as ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=98 No suprise here. If you follow my posts around the web and at panels and in lists, you will see I have been saying for 2 years that DRM-free MP3s are a bust. Why? IMHO because users associate MP3 with FREE. Furthermore, users don't really care about DRM en masse. Yes ... http://www.thedrmblog.com/?p=94