Managing Rights Management

Digital TV

Newsweek International has a good article on digital TV including the potential for rampant piracy and DRM. The article also addresses evolving consumer habits and new media technologies. Snippets: The idea of television any time, anywhere sounds great to a lot of consumers. But there's a terrifying downside for content... Read more →

More commentary on Intel and DRM

Last week I pointed to one article on Intel Pentium D's DRM support. Here are pointers to a couple of other stories. UK's Digitmag says this HTML Fix IT says Intel is "Sly" Read more →

The Next Big Consumer Thing

Electronic News has an interesting discussion of the next big thing in the consumer space. Snippets: Maia: [Michael Maia, VP of Marketing at Portal Player]Absolutely. The battleground is really which services the carriers are going to carry. Will it be like iTunes, where it only works in an iTunes product?... Read more →

Intel quietly ships Pentium D with DRM

According to Computerworld downunder, Intel has shipped its Pentium D chip and related chip sets DRM enabled. Snippets: Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel now embedding digital rights management within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium... Read more →

Sun sets on UK encryption regulation powers

TheRegister has an article on the expiration of regulations in the UK relating to the use of cryptography. Snippets: Digital rights activists are celebrating this week with the expiry of powers in the UK's Electronic Communications Act of 2000 that gave the Government the right to regulate companies selling encryption... Read more →

SaaS for DRM?

ASPs (Application Services Providers) are mostly dead having died in the collapse of the Bubble. Well, OK, many are living happy lives at the moment but have eliminated from their names and marketing collateral the term ASP as a way of describing central server-based applications sold on a services model.... Read more →

Recently Published Patent Applications

Every Thursday, the US Patent and Trademark Office publishes pending patent applications. Publication has no bearing on whether a patent will eventually be issued based on the application. Still, issued patents and published applications are often indicators of what people have been thinking about and the kinds of things that... Read more →

Microsoft and Media

Check out David Berlind's excellent blogicle on Microsoft, rich media, and DRM. Although anything is possible, one cannot underestimate the importance of building a powerful business ecosystem, which is exactly what Berlind says MSFT is doing. Snippet: Although it isn’t perfect, Microsoft’s PlaysForSure program was really a defining moment in... Read more →

Intel's Home Entertainment Platform

In an interview given to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and described here (no subscription required), Intel's new CEO Paul Otellini says that: ...the company expects its next major technology platform for consumers, aimed at the "digital home," will probably be ready early next year. Paul Otellini, speaking at... Read more →

E.U.'s Digital Future

ITWorld.com has an interview with the E.U.'s top policy maker for the IT and media industries, Viviane Reding. Snippets: The key, she argues, is ensuring that infrastructure and service providers and content makers all get a share of the new income generated by film online. To do this, effective and... Read more →