Valve's Gabe Newell calls most forms of DRM "stupid," but Microsoft's Randy Milller's response misses the point entirely. The war between PC gamers and publishers seems likely to continue. Read More. read more » DiscussBury
Walmart has scaled back it decision to promptly pull the plug on it's DRM servers for music sold on it's online store prior to it going DRM free. The email feedback from customers about this and wh read more » DiscussBury
Nate Anderson writes that deciding whether "there are particular classes of works as to which users are, or are likely to be, adversely affected in their ability to make noninfringing uses due to the prohibition of circumvention," is the goal here. read more » DiscussBury
"The issues with Spore's DRM have finally begun to spill into the legal arena, but the first class-action lawsuit against EA goes a little over the top in the complaints against SecuROM." read more » DiscussBury
Microsoft plans to turn off its MSN Music authorization servers at the end of this summer, according to an e-mail sent out to customers today. It's another reminder that DRM means you don't fully own read more » DiscussBury
Cory Doctorow over BoingBoing picks up the topic of Nokia's push to remove Ogg Theora, a video standard, from the upcoming HTML5 specification. read more » DiscussBury
According to BusinessWeek's Catherine Holahan, Song BMG is to be the last major record label to abandon Digital Rights Management (DRM) on music - or at least some of its music. read more » DiscussBury
Wall Street does not see a positive future for music labels as music continues to move digital and the labels become less necessary for artists to reach their fans. Greg Sandoval has a fascinating ar read more » DiscussBury
