Interesting quarters are attempting to open up DRM.  The French don’t seem to believe you should be tied in to any particular media type or forced to use files you’ve purchased in particular ways.  They’ve got some draft legislation that’s going before their upper house that will force sellers of music in France to interoperate […]

With the ongoing war on the citizenry of the United States by vested rights holding interests (not all rights holding interests, mind, just a few nasty ones.  See: RIAA, MPAA, BSA) they’ve declared that their right to protect their IP is more important than your continued ability to draw breath.
Lemme run that by you one […]

It looks like Google has won it’s court case over alleged Usenet archiving “violations”.  Some author had put his work up on Usenet, we can only assume to troll for people to “violate” his copyright.  When Google then archived the Usenet post, he sued for a reem of offences.
The court dismissed all of the complaints […]

Looks like the French caught wind of the fact that DRM doesn’t impinge on copyright infringment, only lawful use.  They’re proposing to allow DRM circumvention to transfer files between devices.
Also in the bill is a measure to make Apple open up their iTunes store for competitors.  Apparently they’re starting to look a bit too much […]