The music industry is often excoriated for viewing electronic downloads as enemy rather than opportunity. It has a hate-love relationship with Apple, creator of the iPod and iTunes. It has a love-hate relationship with its own artists such as Prince who are trying to use digital to break the old...
If stats from U.K. music e-tailer 7 Digital are any indication by way of Ars Technica, then the answer to the headline would be, "yes." Music with digital rights management DRM is four times less likely to sell than tracks without DRM protection. Additionally, those who buy DRM-free music are...
IBM announced today that it will cut another 1,570 jobs, mostly in its North American technology services unit. The company has dispatched with about 3,000 jobs this quarter and Lee Conrad, national coordinator for the Alliance at IBM, predicts that layoffs will reach 12,000 jobs for the year....
Amazon decided it wants in on the digital music service market and clearly has its eyes on snatching up iTune users. So what are the implications of Amazon's new foray into digital music peddling? Well, the move will make Amazon the first digital music service to offer...
Sure Steve Jobs’ is being lauded as a giant killer and hero for music consumers in his call for the death of copy-protection technology -- aka DRM -- in an essay he posted Tuesday. But it also may have been one of the cheapest marketing ploys in recent memory. From...
Microsoft offers a series of technologies that enable organizations to address information protection in the enterprise. These technologies include RMS Rights Management Services, EFS Encrypting File Systems, and Bit-locker (BitLockerTM Drive Encryption). Each performs different functions in the information security chain, yet all three technologies are complementary elements of information...
The objective of the paper was to quantify and compare the extent of synchronization of the spatial-temporal myometrial activity over the human uterus before and during a contraction using transabdominal magnetomyographic MMG recordings. Synchronization can be an important indicator for the quantification of uterine contractions. The results show that the...
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. The paper argues that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. It shows that demand-based cost sharing generally leads...
Digital piracy is content creators' and providers' migraine. The "analog hole" allow consumers to record digital content displayed on analog output devices. The content industry has scrambled for solutions to ameliorate the situation. The industry is re-mapping its strategies as it comes to the realization that lawsuits alone won't plug...
The study presented in this paper examines how Digital Rights Management DRM may complement Peer to Peer (P2P) technology and help solve many of the intellectual property problems now hotly contested in the current policy arena. From a popular vantage point, Napster - though not a pure P2P network (because...
The introduction of Intellectual Property protection technologies such as Digital Rights Management Systems and the introduction of technology bills have an effect on various parties who both affect and are affected by these. Furthermore, all parties involved may have a different view depending on their interests and attitudes and may...
This paper critically analyzes this natural monopoly argument. It argues that the case for PROs is not as straightforward as it is assumed to be. It shows that many of the underlying cost efficiencies that are attributed to PROs are usually simply assumed, and in many cases could be equally...
Digital Rights Management DRM refers to the technology that copyright owners use to protect digital media. This report surveys several of the DRM bills that were introduced in the 107th Congress and those that are pending in the 108th Congress. Generally, the bills are directed at two separate goals. One...
The methods and technologies providing advantages in controlling and managing intellectual property rights are currently associated under the term Digital Rights Management DRM. The study revealed that the issues related to the DRM processes and components of DRM systems have been neglected from the perspective of the upstream of a...
This paper discusses interoperability of digital rights management DRM systems. The paper starts by describing a basic reference model for DRM. The cause of interoperability is served by understanding and circumscribing what DRM is "n the whole." The paper then outlines and contrasts three different approaches to achieving interoperability. One...
This article provides introduction to the legal and policy dimensions of digital rights management DRM. It explains the laws and treaties that affect DRM, and outline the trends and policy debates which will lead to changes to these laws in the future. It reviews the problems associated with the digital...
The authors' believe that many companies could be more profitable if they collected money left on the table through inefficiency and opportunities not taken and if they invested those funds in solutions, such as DRM, that prevent further revenue leakage via piracy. The purpose of this paper is to accelerate...
One key issue when dealing with multimedia content systems is taking care of possible Intellectual Property Rights IPR management and distribution associated to the content itself. Although many of them already exist, their use is not easy, due to, between other reasons, a lack of interoperability of solutions. MPEG, through...
This paper explores the economic differences between a system of consumer-regulating copyright based on "digital rights management", and alternatives based on public funding. It argues that the distinctions are sufficiently intricate that they elude any simple modeling technique. Instead, this paper attempts a semi-analytic comparison which weighs a set of...
This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules and technological deterrence levels in a market with digital piracy, when legal sellers can sometimes control the extent of piracy by implementing digital rights management DRM systems. It is shown that the seller's optimal pricing schedule can be characterized as a...
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