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Covers latest news and opinions on digital rights management, IPR (intellectual property, copyright, etc.), commercial and legal aspects of DRM. The author, Steve Mathews, has over 20 years experience in the IT security industry and is one of the authors of ISO/IEC 17799 (formerly BS7799).
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- Cryptography isn’t DRM
Tue, 21st Oct 2008 03:50 EDTOne of the commonest errors you see made in articles about information security is to equate the secrecy obtained by cryptography with the licensing control applied by DRM.You will see... - It’s a funny old world
Wed, 24th Sep 2008 07:14 EDTAlthough not the only person to use the quotation, Margaret Thatcher famously said those words to describe losing the election to be the leader of the Conservative Party and therefore... - DRM is a barrier to eBook adoption say students
Tue, 2nd Sep 2008 13:01 EDTBeing interested in opinions on the rights, wrongs, virtues and demerits perceived by many communities, I found the following article http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080828-study-students-need-open-source-e-textbooks.html to be of some interest. If you read the article,... - Is there such a thing as personal data anymore
Tue, 26th Aug 2008 09:02 EDTThe other day we see reported in the press (in this case SC Magazine http://haymarket.puresendmail.com/hmiclick/4t6676cRbkg92yRmd0R8l9a2cRng1R4tbura/2/www.scmagazineuk.com/UK-Government-takes-rap-for-latest-data-blunder/article/115785/) that yet again personal data held by the UK government has leaked its way out... - Customers demand DRM controls – it’s true
Tue, 19th Aug 2008 12:13 EDTNow even consultants would normally be hard pressed to find an argument that customers want DRM controls protecting information. If you believe the modern anti-DRM blog sites, DRM is akin... - When in doubt – shoot the messenger!
Wed, 6th Aug 2008 13:02 EDTSophocles, in his work Antigone, said, "No one loves the messenger who brings bad news." This week provided more than it’s share of light entertainment with blogs of disinformation. Top of... - Web 2.0 - What’s wrong with using what you know?
Wed, 6th Aug 2008 02:40 EDTIt has been interesting reading the blogs, analysts and industrial pundits who have decided that Web 2.0 is the best thing since ….. well, maybe Web 1.x? and that every... - Does the death of music DRM mean the death of DRM itself?
Thu, 31st Jul 2008 10:05 EDTI am sure you will have read the article in efflux.com http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Yahoo_Music_Dead_Another_Reason_To_Never_Buy_DRM_Protected_Tracks_21005.html warning of the death of the Microsoft music DRM by August 31, and Google by September 30 (2008). Their... - Does organized piracy contribute to better markets?
Mon, 28th Jul 2008 14:13 EDTI read, from the July pages of www.StarNewsOnline.com that “The Pirate Bay, which is based in Sweden, presents a devilishly fearless challenge to American textbook publishers. It describes itself as... - Getting too casual with information
Tue, 15th Jul 2008 05:11 EDTAs can be the case, we have been rather overtaken by recent events – in my case an office move – actually only about a mile as the (insert...
