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  • EMI considers opening its DRM to inspection

    The EMI Group is reviewing a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to allow reverse engineering of its digital rights management (DRM) software, EMI said on Friday.

  • Microsoft DRM U-turn 'a betrayal'

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the Zune music player.

  • Apple criticised for embedding names, e-mails in songs

    It used to be that music fans believed cryptic messages about Satan or the death of a band member were hidden within rock albums. Nowadays, the secrets buried in digital music are way too easy to find, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The consumer watchdog group, which focuses on the Web, is taking issue with Apple's practice of embedding customer information within iTunes music.

  • Microsoft sues over source code theft

    Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code.

  • Student faces suit over key to CD locks

    SunnComm Technologies said that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's Shift key.

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