DRM systems can include special formats for media files or proprietary media players.
For instance, people buying tracks from the iTunes store cannot move tracks on to non-Apple portable music devices. Others restrict the number of times a user can copy a file.
Yahoo does not agree.
Does not agree that iTunes cannot move tracks…? Seems like an awkwardly written story, but with dramatic effect. Also seems like a bad sign that the reporter doesn’t know it’s “Yahoo!” and not “Yahoo”.
On the official Yahoo music blog, director of product management Ian Rogers wrote: “As you know, we’ve been publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for a while now.
“Our position is simple: DRM doesn’t add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day – the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform.”
Dave Goldberg, the vice president and general manager of Yahoo Music urged record labels reconsider their stance on DRM technology earlier this year.
I look forward to reading it. In the meantime, it reminds me that I should find some more LKJ. His albums are awesome and I always loved his poem in Creole called “Englan is a Bitch”:
‘W’en mi jus’ come to Landan town
Mi use to work pa di andahgroun
Y’u don’t get fi know your way aroun”
More evidence that diesel engines are an excellent design today able to make use of clean and renewable fuels of the future:
A Spanish company claimed on Thursday to have developed a method of breeding plankton and turning the marine plants into oil, providing a potentially inexhaustible source of clean fuel.
The EFF reports that a “Judge Denies Government’s Motion to Dismiss AT&T Case”:
AT&T Corp. (which was recently acquired by the new AT&T, Inc,. formerly known as SBC Communications) maintains domestic telecommunications facilities over which millions of Americans’ telephone and Internet communications pass every day. It also manages some of the largest databases in the world, containing records of most or all communications made through its myriad telecommunications services.
The lawsuit alleges that AT&T Corp. has opened its key telecommunications facilities and databases to direct access by the NSA and/or other government agencies, thereby disclosing to the government the contents of its customers’ communications as well as detailed communications records about millions of its customers, including the lawsuit’s class members.
The lawsuit also alleges that AT&T has given the government unfettered access to its over 300 terabyte “Daytona” database of caller information—one of the largest databases in the world. Moreover, by opening its network and databases to wholesale surveillance by the NSA, EFF alleges that AT&T has violated the privacy of its customers and the people they call and email, as well as broken longstanding communications privacy laws.
The lawsuit also alleges that AT&T continues to assist the government in its secret surveillance of millions of Americans. EFF, on behalf of a nationwide class of AT&T customers, is suing to stop this illegal conduct and hold AT&T responsible for its illegal collaboration in the government’s domestic spying program, which has violated the law and damaged the fundamental freedoms of the American public.
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