Nokia has agreed to license Microsoft’s new PlayReady digital-rights-management technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software. The deal extends ...

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 ...

In cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, the free-software organization calls on the W3C to keep DRM out of Web standards. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

According to a report from CNet, Ubisoft's DRM software for its most recent PC titles has been hacked. When said hack is downloaded, which is apparently on torrent sites right now, it will remove the ...

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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 ...

In a trial about whether Apple’s iTunes was the lynchpin in shutting out competitors and making it harder for consumers to take their music elsewhere, today was Apple’s chance to explain what it was ...