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Giz Explains: Everything You Wanted to Know About DRM

Posted by Matt Buchanan at 3:00 AM on December 20, 2008

Condensed explanation: Digital rights management is a corporate pain in the arse that stops you from doing whatever you want with music and movies in the name of fighting piracy. But there's more to it.


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Press

Norway Forgets Who They're Dealing With, Demands Apple Open Up FairPlay DRM (Again)

Posted by Matt Buchanan at 8:20 AM on October 1, 2008

Norway is ostensibly big on neutrality, even when it gets them invaded and pulverised, so not surprisingly it hates Apple's FairPlay DRM, which only lets songs play on iPods. It even has a law requiring that consumers be able to use digital media with whatever device they choose, which FairPlay obviously pees all over. After a lovely chat with Apple in February, not much has changed, so gentle Norway is going to play war against Apple over FairPlay for the rest of hapless Europe.

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