Distributing PSP games this way would entail all sorts of challenges from digital rights management to channel conflict, but it would also usher in a new era of convenience.
Another potential antitrust issue involves the role of digital rights management.
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Consoles have always fared better than PCs when it comes to piracy, and as a result console games have traditionally been free of the sorts of digital rights management that PC gamers have been using for years.
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So far, the major labels have been unwilling to let their music be distributed on podcasts, which don't have any kind of digital-rights management scheme that prevents users from redistributing the files.
Real DVD also installs a new layer of digital-rights-management (DRM) code on files, blocking users from copying them more than five times to other computers.
Indeed, PublishOne's business plan is a good example of how digital-rights-management systems may work in practice.
In a blog post Friday afternoon, the company announced the acquisition of Widevine , a Seattle-based provider of video delivery security and digital rights management tools used by studios, cable systems and channels to show content both online and on TVs.
Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM Digital Rights Management which allows big corporations access to you stuff and the ability to take things away from you that you have bought and paid for legitimately with the click of a mouse, without a single word of explanation.
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Publishers unhappy with Apple's iTunes pricing policies have marginalized the company's ability to offer music free of onerous copy protections known as digital rights management.
The technique the driver uses to prevent printing is a feature of the PDF format and is really Digital Rights Management (DRM).
And Digg, like many other sites that revealed the HD-DVD code, has already been sent a cease and desist letter from the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), a digital rights management development group that includes the fearsome lineup of the Walt Disney Co.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) has long been the subject of controversy in the gaming industry.
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And Sony BMG will join EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store.
At that time a lot of companies wanted to crack the code on seamless digital rights management.
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Worrying though it is, the deal may push publishers to abandon digital-rights management (DRM), notes Matteo Berlucchi, head of Anobii, a literary social-networking site.
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What Ando didn't expand upon are the plans Sony has for the digital rights management firm InterTrust, which it just acquired with the help of Phillips Electronics .
Those gamers who have been able to circumvent the always-online Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues have already logged nearly 8 million hours of gameplay.
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Martin Blomkvist, Sony Ericsson's head of content acquisition and management said in a recent interview that offering digital music without rights or copying restrictions and games will help pull users toward the new site, providing a larger separate revenue stream, and stimulate handset sales.
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When I worked at EMI, I did lots of media interviews about the challenges the music industry faced, especially around digital rights management.
There is a current exception, but it is narrow and unclear, and this has a chilling effect upon a lot of legitimate research -- some of the research would actually help protect intellectual property by helping to make digital rights management software stronger.
All tracks will be DRM free, or without digital rights management, meaning users can move the files around between devices and convert them an unlimited number of times.
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Other shortcomings of HTML5 in comparison to native applications include the fact that it presently lacks the DRM (Digital Rights Management) needed for many multimedia services, does not support background processing, and is missing secure storage and notifications outside of applications.
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