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  • Ex-MS security guru to dump Media Center for Linux?

    Veteran Microsoft security expert, Jesper Johansson, says he may dump Microsoft's Windows Media Center in favour of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE after struggling with DRM (Digital Rights Management) software.

  • Digital rights: MS could learn from Apple

    What can you do with the digital content you "own"? It's a controversial question that both Microsoft and Apple must address.

  • Sharman and Altnet colluding: Universal

    Lawyers for Universal Music put the hard word on Sharman Networks in Federal Court today attempting to force the company to reveal its corporate structure and anonymous director. The Universal Music parties' senior counsel, John Nicholas, claimed the company has purposely been set up with no visible line of command to "resist a claim like this".

  • Hey, that’s our patent

    To hear it from the smaller company’s point of view, Microsoft has been playing with patented toys from InterTrust Technologies’ sandbox. And the latter is not happy.

  • Digital rights' hidden dangers

    As a growing population of users has mastered the electronic distribution of content, digital rights management (aka DRM) has become Ground Zero in heated debate over that content's proper care and handling.

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  • Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

    Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

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