Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Kindle Hikes Book Prices and Adds to My Ambivalence
Just when I was coming to terms with my ambivalence toward my Kindle e-book reader, Amazon and the publishers have gotten greedy.
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the device since I bought my first one about 9 months ago.
As a frequent traveler and voracious reader, I’ve found the Kindle to be nearly ideal. I never have fewer than a dozen books in its memory, and they’re always things I want to read.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Consumers Want to Rip, Burn DVDs
Apple’s iTunes makes saving music from CDs onto one’s personal computer a simple process, but doing the same with a DVD is much more complicated endeavor. Most DVDs are encoded with digital rights management technology to prevent copying.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Did Amazon Delete Spore Reviews? [Updated]
Want to know how not to respond to criticism? By deleting it. Yet it appears that’s what Amazon has done. Earlier this week we wrote about the controversy of EA’s decision to put cumbersome DRM on the highly anticipated video game, Spore. The response was that thousands of people started posting one star reviews of Spore, noting the problems with the DRM.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune
If you like to download the latest episodes of “Heroes” or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn’t buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on. A future update of the software for Microsoft’s portable media player may well include a feature that will block unauthorized copies of copyrighted videos from being played on it.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble
I say we’re on the road to ruin. It’s one panic after another, and with each new stopgap plan, the music industry–really the entire digital content industry–digs itself in deeper. Music lovers are dancing in the streets as one major music company, online music service and online retail outlet after another walks away from onerous digital rights management restrictions. They’ll sell you DRM-free music, as long as you accept lower audio quality. Bands like Radiohead and Coldplay are even letting consumers set their own prices.
Monday, June 4, 2007
The World Isn’t Flat
At D5 last week, we announced our new RealPlayer, which makes it easy for anyone to download video from the Internet and keep it for personal use. But what I want to discuss today are the divergent reactions to the product and the ideas behind it–it’s basically a Rorschach ink-blot test for how people feel about Internet media and consumer choice.
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