Category: DRM

The British music industry says music phones pose a huge threat to them because they’ll let kids share music without their computers. It’s another silly argument — people that pirate music will do it over …

Another cross-post, this one from MobHappy on how the music industry is setting mobile music up to fail by instituting pointless and irritating DRM. “You’ve got the record industry bitching about how file sharing — …

A small developer called Normsoft has released a Palm app that can play files protected with Microsoft’s Janus DRM. allowing for compatibility with services like Napster to Go, Yahoo Music Unlimited and Real Rhapsody. It’s …

Half of UK dance duo Groove Armada will supply operator O2 with exclusive tracks for its customers to download, says the Guardian, “in an attempt to gain control over digital downloading”. Musician Andy Cato will …

Following a move in the Netherlands to impose a fee of 3.28 euros per gigabyte on MP3 players to reimburse copyright holders for “lost” revenue, support for a similar move in the UK is growing …