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Apple, Amazon, and the Music Industry -- Same Old Tune?
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...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Music, Music Industry, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Industry
Blog posts 2008-01-18
Does Copy Protection Hamper Sales?
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...
Tags: Personal Technology, Security, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copy Protection, Sales, Movie, Digital-rights Management, Jonathan Haeber
Blog posts 2007-11-09
BNET Daily Dispatch: IBM, Digital Music, Williams-Sonoma, and Green Manufacturing
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....
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Digital Rights Management (DRM), IBM Corp., Digital Music, Manufacturing, Williams-Sonoma Inc., Job, Digital Media, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-05-30
Amazon's DRM Free World
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...
Tags: Digital Rights Management (DRM), StartupSquad, Blackfriars, Amazon.com Inc., Digital-rights Management, EMI Group Plc., Jupiter Research, Digital Media, Digital Music, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Joseph De Avila
Blog posts 2007-05-16
Steve Jobs: Prophet or Self-Promoter?
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...
Tags: Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital-rights Management, Steve Jobs, Digital Media, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Joseph De Avila, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Security
Blog posts 2007-02-08
Microsoft Identity and Access Solutions
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...
Tags: Microsoft Access, File System, Microsoft Corp., Identity, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, BitLocker, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security
White papers 2007-01-01
Synchronization Analysis of the Uterine Magnetic Activity During Contractions
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...
Tags: Analysis, Contraction, Window, BioMed Central, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security, Construction
White papers 2005-10-01
Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
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...
Tags: Antitrust, Digital-rights Management, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Pricing Strategy, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Corporate Law, Digital Media, Security, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
White papers 2005-07-01
P2P Makeover: Showtime for DRM?
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...
Tags: Digital-rights Management, P2P, Digital Piracy, Industry, Parks Associates, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Digital Media, Strategy, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
White papers 2005-04-01
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Digital Rights Management: How Market Tools Can Solve Copyright Problems
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...
Tags: Security, Internet, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Peer To Peer (P2P), P2P Networking, Tool, P2P, Digital-rights Management
White papers 2005-02-17
Digital Rights Management and Technology Bill Evaluation Using Stakeholder Analysis: A Case Study of the Music Industry
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...
Tags: Digital Rights Management (DRM), Music, Analysis, Industry, Digital-rights Management, Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Security, Research & Development, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
White papers 2004-08-30
The Potential Demise of Another Natural Monopoly: New Technologies and the Future Administration of Copyright
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...
Tags: Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Internet, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, University Of Toronto, Administration, Digital-rights Management
White papers 2004-07-01
Copyright Law: Digital Rights Management Legislation
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...
Tags: Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Congressional Research Service, U.S. Congress, Copyright Law, Digital-rights Management
White papers 2004-05-28
On Integration Of Digital Rights Management Processes Preceding Content Publishing
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...
Tags: Personal Technology, Security, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Integration, Digital-rights Management, Consumer Electronics
White papers 2004-04-08
The Long March to Interoperable Digital Rights Management
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...
Tags: Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Digital-rights Management, Interoperability, Digital Rights Management (DRM), IEEE
White papers 2004-01-28
Legal Policy and Digital Rights Management
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...
Tags: Security, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), University Of Toronto, Consumer Electronics, Digital-rights Management, Personal Technology
White papers 2003-12-11
A New Era for Content: Protection, Potential, and Profit in the Digital World
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...
Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Author, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Digital Media, Operational Accounting, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance
White papers 2003-10-03
Formalisation Of Digital Rights Management: A Negotiation Scenario
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...
Tags: Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital-rights Management, Intellectual Property, Negotiation, Intellectual Property Right, Research & Development, Free Trade, Digital Media, Business Operations, Security, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
White papers 2003-06-25
The Economic Evaluation of Alternatives to Digital Copyright
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...
Tags: Digital-rights Management, University Of Melbourne, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Research & Development, Digital Media, Security, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
White papers 2003-05-30
Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing, Protection and Welfare
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...
Tags: Security, Business Operations, Marketing, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Marketing Research, Piracy, Pricing, Corporate Law, New York University, Pricing Strategy, Digital Piracy
White papers 2003-05-01
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