DRM – Rocknerd

Links: Frank Zappa ad jingles, runout grooves, AACS keys leaked, old Severed Heads.

28 December, 2017 Esoterica, Industrial, Links, Record, Your rights 0

And headphones up your nose.

Links: Denuvo still trash, copyright works, Margaret Thatcher on punk, Sun Ra.

23 October, 201723 October, 2017 Games, Jazz, Links, Punk, Your rights 0

And Tracey Thorn on the lyrical process.

DRM is still rubbish: Denuvo broken in hours, Ultra-HD ripped, get-iplayer.

4 October, 2017 Film, Games, Links, Television, Your rights 1

No DRM that people were interested in breaking has ever stayed unbroken.

Your cyberpunk present: DRMed pets in Second Life starve after corporate battle.

20 May, 201721 May, 2017 Games, Your rights 2

“For the rabbits!” Lennie shouted.
“For the rabbits,” George repeated.

Streaming links: Spotify, Netflix versus Android, the return of the undead Live365.

18 May, 201719 May, 2017 Film, Links, mp3, Radio 0

Why buy when you can trust other people’s computers? I’m sure services will never suddenly disappear or block paying customers.

Links: Audible now DRM-free, the Great Vinyl Scam, no pirate website blocks in Mexico.

29 April, 201711 November, 2018 Links, Writing, Your rights 0

It’s not like people want the (literal) tons of old editions of these records on vinyl.

Links: Portuguese DRM bypass law, majors and streaming money, personal desktop torrent search.

11 April, 201711 April, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Some fun with DRM, BitTorrent and the legal streaming money never reaching the artists anyway.

Links: pop star tech gurus, Denuvo hacks itself, don’t play DRMed content in a Tor browser.

6 February, 20177 February, 2017 Games, Rocknerd, Your rights 0

And some notes on yesterday’s ridiculously popular post.

DRM links: Denuvo removed, Super Mario locked, 4K Netflix for almost nobody, GOG, EFF.

12 December, 201612 December, 2016 Film, Games, Links, Your rights 3

News from the world of “you thought you bought the thing we sold you? Think again, pirate scum!“

Links: floor-sweepings editions, musician forums, Piracy: The Better Choice.

12 September, 2016 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician, Record 0

A site for multi-disc reissues, a new musicians’ forum, DRM still doesn’t work, exclusive deals don’t work.

SingularDTV: a “blockchain entertainment studio” using Ethereum for DRM on their totally boss sci-fi TV show about the Singularity.

19 August, 20169 May, 2018 Film, Industry, Television 7

SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry boondoggle. It’s part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness. You should not fall for it.

Links: Microsoft DRM, Brian Eno, Lou Reed and Revolver.

7 August, 201626 December, 2016 mp3, Rock, Writing 0

While I’m busy faffing with the new theme …

It’s not DRM, er, DCE, it’s DPP! Yeah.

9 September, 200926 December, 2016 mp3 1

In the digital world, you can make anything anywhere and anyone can have copies without you losing yours. I would so download a car,

Microsoft employees give up all hope.

22 January, 200926 December, 2016 mp3 0

It’s not just Microsoft’s DRMed music at twice the price, which will be as popular as a Zune running Vista. It’s the PR guy’s

“DRM-free” as blatant lie.

26 September, 20082 June, 2017 mp3, Your rights 0

Customers loathe and despise DRM. What’s a marketer to do? Advertise products as “DRM-free” when they’re nothing of the sort! After Sony and Nokia

DRMed, limited “DRM-free unlimited” music services on mobile phones.

24 September, 200814 May, 2017 mp3 0

DAS BUNKER, British Phonographic Industry, Wednesday (NNGadget) — Sony-Ericsson has announced PlayNow Plus, a new plan for unlimited “DRM-free” music downloads on phones. “Pay,

Step right up!

13 September, 200812 November, 2016 Industry, Your rights 2

The content industry is addicted to control. We tell them over and over again that DRM is mathematically impossible. There is no such thing

Spore: unintelligent design.

8 September, 200826 December, 2016 Games 0

Music is too fragmented for anti-DRM campaigns to do much. Games are much more hit-oriented. So Spore is having the crap beaten out of

It’s not surprising we’re misunderstood, with this Somerset accent.

14 August, 200826 December, 2016 Games 0

Cliff Harris from small game company Positech asked why people pirate his games. In what could be a shining example to anyone in music

Fool me six times, shame on my parents.

26 July, 200826 December, 2016 mp3, Your rights 2

Yahoo! Music is shutting down, and its DRM servers with it. All four of you who bought a track there are losing it shortly.

The only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.

17 July, 200824 August, 2016 Industry 0

It’s hard to convince someone they’re being sold snake oil if they think their income depends on it: “I made a list of the

Slightly saner online music sales?

21 November, 200226 December, 2016 mp3 3

As reported in a few places (including The Register), Universal are making 43,000 tracks available for online purchase – US$0.99 a track, around US$10

Latest dispatches from the war against the consumer

11 June, 200226 December, 2016 mp3, Your rights 2

As forecast in Suck two years ago, Interscope appear to have been using flooding p2p networks with 30-second loops of the new Eminem album