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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web. Supporting it is better than losing Firefox users, Mozilla says. Stephen ...

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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 ...

I am starting this thread to help others in listing any and all software or hardware that people find, that contain DRM initiatives that take away functionality we currently have on our PCs. Here is ...

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 ...

Well, isn't this interesting. Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has labeled Sony's rootkit technology, used in copyright protection software on some CDs, as spyware. ZDNet writer Matt Loney explains more in ...