West Kilbride, Ayrshire Blog Directory
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- Is DRM open to abuse? by LockLizard Digital Rights Management Blog on Aug 19, 2009 in Digital Rights Management
Is DRM open to abuse?In a word, yes.Whilst we are not ashamed to be significant suppliers of DRM enforcing mechanisms and systems, we are convinced that the original reasons for creating copyright law, as demonstrated by the debates in the Brit...
- Associated Press makes the DRM news (but not how you think) by LockLizard Digital Rights Management Blog on Aug 10, 2009 in Copy Control Digital Rights Management
I read in an article arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/drm-for-news-inside-the-aps-plan-to-wrap-its-content.ars that Associated Press (AP) would like a bit more DRM control over information they publish on the web.Now you might be forgiv...
- Arguments for and against DRM by LockLizard Digital Rights Management Blog on Apr 3, 2009 in Digital Rights Management
The US Federal Trade Commission recently held a ‘town hall’ meeting in order to listen to the arguments being put for and against DRM.Naturally, the great and the good from all [California?] camps were represented and much was said about the musi...
- Anti-DRM fun and fallacy by LockLizard Digital Rights Management Blog on Dec 11, 2008 in Digital Rights Management
Reading through many articles and blogs provides curious glimpses into the thinking processes of authors (or perhaps more accurately academic project writers?).A recent observation that interested me was a statement that, “I don’t see why I shoul...
- Cryptography isn’t DRM by LockLizard Digital Rights Management Blog on Oct 21, 2008 in Digital Rights Management
One of the commonest errors you see made in articles about information security is to equate the secrecy obtained by cryptography with the licensing control applied by DRM.You will see plenty of ‘experts’ state that you can use cryptography...
- It’s a funny old world by LockLizard Digital Rights Management Blog on Sep 24, 2008 in Copy Control Digital Rights Management
Although not the only person to use the quotation, Margaret Thatcher famously said those words to describe losing the election to be the leader of the Conservative Party and therefore the post of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.An...
