Security firm McAfee has partnered with Adobe to develop software that will offer companies' data protection and digital rights management.
McAfee will uses its policy-based data classification with Adobe's policy-based document protection to allow organizations to secure business information such as intellectual property or regulatory compliance data.
The Free Software Foundation has launched an online petition to convince Amazon.com to drop its use of digital rights management (DRM) technology on its Kindle.
The move comes after Amazon deleted customers copies of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" without notice. Amazon says the titles were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have the rights to them and it removed the copies at the request of the publisher from both its Kindle store and users personal electronic readers.
Recent by comments by Microsoft executives have led to speculation that Microsoft may abandon the Zune.Microsoft CEO Ballmer declared at CES that consumers increasingly were moving away from one task devices like the Zune towards smart phones while at the same time stating flatly that no Zune phone was in the works.
A new site has emerged that claims to be a place to buy and sell "used" mp3s. "Stop illegally sharing and start legally selling! Buy drm-free mp3's starting @ $0.25," Bopaboo states on its front page.
Months after Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster and a dozens other download stores have gone 100% DRM free, A
In yet another shutdown of DRM servers, following on the heels of Yahoo and MSN Music,Wal-Mart is also shutting down their DRM servers casting millions of dollars in media locked into one computer, unless you can copy it over to disk.
The push toward making CDs obsolete has taken another step as Apple is going to begin offering album art applications. This is one aspect of physical products like CDs and Vinyl that music enthusiasts have been reluctant to part with in favor of the digital age, but when that aspect becomes available as part of said age, will they still have something to cling to?
The latest financial report from Napster showed only slightly wider losses of 4.4 m
The Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized Yahoo's planned shutdown of DRM servers for its music store and asked the company to take care of its customers.
There had to be a better way. It's no surprise that Yahoo! Music is shutting down its download store and pointing customers to Rhapsody. But did they have to pull a Microsoft and stop supporting the retrieval of license keys or authorize playback on additional computers? Here's the email that came last night:
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