Piracy’s a fact of life. As a defence against having their intellectual properties swiped, cracked and traded online like so many baseball cards, a lot of companies have turned to Digital Rights Management, a move that seldom does more than temporarily slow pirates and enrage paying customers. Fortunately, there’s a growing number of non-DRM related options out there for developers and software vendors to explore that’ll stymy piracy while respect the rights of their paying users. Let’s give ‘em a try. More »
Free legal music downloads. It’s the holy grail for both pirates looking to go legit and misers. Finally it seems to have arrived in the form of QTrax, a silverlight-based free music download service that – perhaps most surprising of all – is available to Australians. There is a pretty big catch though… More »
Despite some worrisome earlier reports, Amazon has clarified the DRM policies for their forthcoming Android App Store and they’re actually not that crazy at all. More »
In order to verify you’re not pirating their products, Amazon’s new Appstore on Android will reportedly require that you have the Appstore client installed on your phone and that you be signed into your account whenever you use their apps. More »
Nokia’s stab at an iTunes competitor, Ovi Music Unlimited, has spun its last track in most major markets. The subscription service never really took off here in the US, despite support from the Big Four record labels, and folded for a plethora of reasons: More »
Amazon’s Kindle jumpstarted the ebook revolution, but that doesn’t make it the eReader of choice for everyone. If you’ve got some Kindle books you’d like to use with a different device, here’s how to remove the DRM so you can. More »
