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Home Theater July 19, 2007	Sony BMG Bites DRM Developer Sony BMG is suing one of two developers of digital rights management schemes that spooked consumers, compromised the security of their PCs, and forced the music label to pay settlements in numerous lawsuits.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Alyce Lomax	DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo?
PC World September 2005 Laurianne McLaughlin	Copyright Crackdown New XCP2 technology on music CDs limits the number of copies you can make -- and gets in the way of putting tunes on an IPod.
BusinessWeek February 19, 2007 Cliff Edwards	Steve Jobs Changes His Tune Why Apple Chief Executive Steven P. Jobs is willing to jettison industry restrictions on copying music and video.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2005 Alyce Lomax	What Were You Thinking, Sony? Increasingly, music companies like Sony BMG are treating their customers like criminals who borrow, rather than purchase, their products. Sony's recent move goes way beyond that idea -- providing an intrusive technology that, in effect, hijacked its customers' computers.
PC Magazine June 22, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Entertainment Face-Off In a major step in its efforts to deliver subscription-based music and video content for portable and networked devices, Microsoft has unveiled the next version of its Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) software.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Sony Blunders With DRM Again The electronics giant's zeal to protect copyright punishes customers. If Sony doesn't start rethinking its attitude toward DRM and its effect on consumers, it seems likely the company is going to suffer more negative perceptions. And for Sony investors, that's a real risk to contemplate.
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Roy Mark	Sony BMG Settles FTC DRM Charges Sony BMG Music agreed Tuesday it violated federal law by not telling consumers CDs sold by the company contained digital rights management software that monitored user listening habits to send them marketing messages.
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Peter Burrows	Hollywood Holds Its Breath The iPod - and Disney's blessing - could create a mass audience for video on the go.
PC World March 2006 Dan Tynan	Hollywood vs.Your PC: Round 2 Legal options in digital entertainment are growing. But they come with restrictions that can hobble your ability to enjoy the content you've paid for and even threaten your control over your system.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Sony's Non-DRM Dud Sony has decided to begin selling DRM-free digital albums, but consumers will have to clear a few hurdles first.
PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Michael J. Miller	Now Showing on Small Screens Technology is poised to change TV and movies in the same way as online music stores and digital music players have rewritten the rules for music distribution.
Home Theater April 23, 2007	Sony to Replace Defective DVDs Sony will offer replacements for 20 defective glitch-prone DVD titles.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2005 Alyce Lomax	More Sucking Sounds at Sony The state of Texas cries foul over Sony's spyware practices, again. But it seems that many investors still retain a lot of belief in Sony, given that its stock price continues to go up.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Jim Wagner	Sony Sued Over DRM Rootkit Sony BMG's copy-protection software draws lawsuits from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the state of Texas.
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Peter Burrows	Show Time! Just as the Mac revolutionized computing, Apple is changing the world of online music. If Steve Jobs plays his cards right this time, Apple could end up with a big chunk of the digital-entertainment market
InternetNews August 30, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft's DRM Lock a Bit Rusty Microsoft said it has updated its Windows Media digital rights management software to keep it locked.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Ed Sutherland	DRM Becomes a Balancing Act Companies walk a tightrope when it comes to protecting copyrighted work with Digital Rights Management, according to a new report.
The Motley Fool January 16, 2008 Anders Bylund	Apple's Rentals Won't Worry Netflix Amazon's digital department must be a somber place today, after Apple iTunes announces its movie rental program. But in Los Gatos, it's business as usual for Netflix.
InternetNews August 22, 2005 Jim Wagner	DReaM: Royalty-Free, Open Source DRM Sun Microsystems is jumping into digital rights management with the launch of an open source version not dependent on devices.
The Motley Fool July 3, 2006 Anders Bylund	DRM Trouble? Don't Ask Bono, Bonehead How would the Free Software Foundation's lightweight e-tition sway Bono to spend his time on Digital Rights Management legislation rather than on world hunger? It wouldn't.
InternetNews January 6, 2005 Jim Wagner	Apple Hit by Lawsuit The plaintiff wants to loosen the ties between the iPod and the iTunes music service.
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Heard Any Good Malware Lately? Digital rights shouldn't violate civil rights as Sony's DRM rootkit seems to do.
Wired February 2003 Frank Rose	The Civil War Inside Sony Sony Music wants to entertain you. Sony Electronics wants to equip you. The problem is that when it comes to digital media, their interests are diametrically opposed.
BusinessWeek November 15, 2004 Stephen H. Wildstrom	The Music Mess: Advantage, Microsoft Microsoft focuses on compatibility, which is what music lovers want.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Sony Says I'm Sorry ... 21st-Century Style Sony, despite some recent missteps, tries to set things right with its spyware fiasco. While the stock has certainly been strong, who can buy a company that seems committed to tripping over its own digital feet and aggravating consumers in the pursuit of more money?
InternetNews January 11, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie?
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Still Not Ready For Prime Time Movie downloads can't be easily viewed on a TV. But Apple plans to fix that when it introduces a $299 product with the working title of iTV.
Home Theater April 10, 2009	iTunes Ditches DRM Apple will eliminate digital rights management from all songs sold through iTunes.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Sony Vies for Video Has Sony learned from its music-service mistakes? After announcing last week that it's disconnecting its Connect music service, the electronics giant is mulling the idea of its own digital movie service. Maybe Sony can enter the download game a bit wiser this time.
Home Toys February 2006	DVD Insider #49 Sony's rootkit fiasco has RIAA execs thinking twice about how intrusive they make their DRM. Maybe they should send their lawyers to the pirates' lairs and focus on figuring out how to make a living in the always-on Internet.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Stephen Cass	Antipiracy Software Opens Door to Electronic Intruders When security researchers in the U.S. and Finland discovered the music CD/rootkit problem, Sony BMG's reaction was so bad that it will probably be seen in future years as a textbook example of a botched corporate response.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Glenn Derene	Movies: From PC to TV Downloading a film is easy. Getting it to your living room screen is trickier. The three fastest ways to transfer Hollywood's finest to your HDTV.
PC World November 5, 2001 Tom Spring	Music Labels Target CD Ripping Claiming to fight piracy, labels test copy protection to keep audio CDs from going digital...
InternetNews December 30, 2005 David Needle	Portable Video Player Gains DRM Handheld Entertainment announced today that its ZVUE 1.2 portable video media player, priced at under $100, now supports Microsoft's secure digital rights management software.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	A Fool Looks Back Movie reels and high-flying seats colored in the week that was: Popcorn, sodas, and apples... Around the market in a speedster...
The Motley Fool March 9, 2005 Dave Marino-Nachison	Sony Flashes Apple The electronics company will take on the iPod Shuffle with its new flash-memory music players.
The Motley Fool February 14, 2007 Nathan Alderman	The Serpent in Apple's Garden Now that Apple's moving from music into movies and TV, has the Mac maker begun to jeopardize its success by aligning itself more with the content-creating industry heavyweights -- at the risk of alienating the customers responsible for its current download dominance.
Home Theater November 15, 2005 Mark Fleischmann	Deep Rifts Exposed in Sony BMG Faux Pas Sony BMG's boneheaded misuse of hacker technology has potentially compromised the security of millions of PCs, inspired a bunch of computer viruses, provoked class-action lawsuits, caused a firestorm of protest in online forums, and even attracted veiled criticism from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Sony Eyes Video Soon, video downloads will be available for the PSP. Legally obtained video content is still anybody's game. We'll see if Sony can make video magic with its PSP.
BusinessWeek April 2, 2007 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Apple TV's Blurry Future For now, there's too little content available to make the box worthwhile.
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	An Apple Flip-Flop on FairPlay? Apple CEO Steve Jobs is calling for music labels to stop selling music encrypted with digital rights management software.
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Dan Costa	DRM Is Dead Sure, the RIAA can sue a handful of students each year and shut down a P2P network every six months, but this is just legal Whac-A-Mole. It doesn't solve the problem.
BusinessWeek December 26, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom	PCs: The Buzz Is Back Macs with Intel chips and a new Windows will bookend 2006.
PC World October 2005 Anne Kandrta	How to Beat the Music Download Blues Incompatible formats and players can make getting music online a headache. Here's some advice to help you pick up your favorite tunes online without hassles.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2007 Tim Beyers	This Apple Isn't Rotten iTunes isn't what matters. The iPod was a hit long before the iTunes store arrived. As long as the iPod remains the best-designed gadget of its kind, more content should lead to ever-greater iPod sales.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Seth Jayson	Quick Take: Teflon Steve Wearing Thin in Europe Interesting to see Europe wake up and smell the real monopoly: Apple, iTunes, and the "Fairplay" DRM.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Sony Disconnects Sony decides to disconnect its Connect digital music service; customers were trapped using only Sony hardware and software to listen to their music, which doomed the program. The company now says it will support other, more open formats, such as MP3.
InternetNews May 8, 2009 David Miller	DRM Debate: How Much Is Too Much? Content needs to be protected, but how that's enabled was a subject of debate at the Digital Hollywood conference.