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.
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:
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.
Devious devs have punched a hole in Microsoft’s WP7 marketplace DRM, allowing for the free installation of paid apps.
HDCP, the copy protection intended to keep HDMI-beamed content on lockdown, was recently cracked. The new “master key” might not be very useful to John Q. Gizmo, but it will keep torrenters frustrating the hell out of the MPAA. [Rudd-O]
DRM is the bane of media consumption, restricting consumers from doing what they want with content that they legally purchase. But what if the DRM actually worked while giving you the ability to consume movies you’d paid for on any device you owned? Would that make DRM worth it? It may not be too long before we find out.
The federal government rarely hands fair use proponents cheerful news – usually it’s quite the opposite. But a judge of the 5th Circuit Appeals Court has ruled that circumventing DRM for non-infringing purposes isn’t illegal, contrary to years of precedent.
