Posts Tagged ‘DRM’
Salt – I want my DVD player back
Seems like Sony are at it again with crazy DRM ruining their customer experience. Here’s what happens when I put Salt into my Kiss DP-600 DVD player: Disc spins up Starts to play Player crashes and switches off When I switch the player back on: Disc spins up Starts to play Player crashes and switches […]
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Tags: crash, DRM, DVD, fail, player, Salt, Sony
Shortly before digging into the copy of Cognitive Surplus I bought on Google ebooks the other day I read this piece comparing the relative merits of Google, Amazon and Apple’s offerings. One of the areas of the store/reading experience it didn’t touch on was gifting. Since getting my Kindle I don’t really want any more […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology, wibble | Leave a Comment
Tags: amazon, apple, content, DRM, ebook, geography, gift card, gifting, google, Google checkout, iBook, payments, publishing
One of the big tech news items today is the launch of the much anticipated Google eBooks. Sadly the service is only available in the US at the moment, so I thought I’d have a poke around and see what the hurdles were. US Browsing Browsing from my regular connection at home I could only see […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: Adobe, amazon, Amex, Calibre, convert, Digital Editions, DRM, ebook, epub, google, Google books, kindle, mobi, payments, proxy, UK, US
Is zero weight a feature?
As I’ve spent more time with my Kindle I’ve been paying more attention to eBook prices. My conclusion is that zero weight (or perhaps just the novelty of eBooks) is a feature, and one that the supply chain thinks is worth a premium. Pricing Typical pricing for eBooks seems to be the same (or just […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: amazon, DRM, ebook, grey market, international, kindle, pricing, second hand, used
Social Documents
Document management sucks! There – I said it. I challenge you to prove me wrong. I haven’t yet found a document management system (DMS) that’s fit for purpose, and I think I know why. It’s not about the technology. Documentum might hark from the client server era, and Alfresco trumps that with its SOA, but […]
Filed under: e2.0, security | 4 Comments
Tags: annotation, attribute, bookmark, dms, document, document management system, DRM, e2.0, enterprise 2.0, file, folder, role, search, security, social, social object, tag, tagging, tags
I’m usually an aggressive early adopter of new gadgets, but I’ve not been able to bring myself to buy an e-book reader yet. This is mostly due to the DRM deployed by Amazon, Sony etc. and the consequences that has for how I would use the books and what would happen to them in the future. As […]
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Tags: DRM, e-book, e-reader, kindle, nook
Monitising the freetards pt.2
In this post I’d like to explore whether P2P could be the basis of a business model that would directly fund the creation of content. Think do with P2P what HBO did with Cable (HBO 2.0?).
Filed under: media, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: content, DRM, freetard, music, p2p, torrent, tv, video
Monitising the freetards pt.1
The going rate for ratio is in the region of £0.50/GB – approximately the same as physical storage. Let me restate that – people will pay as much for the ability to download content as they will for the empty physical asset to store it on. Also bear in mind that bandwidth is getting cheaper at a different rate to storage – so right now we’re passing the crossover point – the ‘freetards’, or at least people in their community are willingly paying more for ratio (=bandwidth) than they are for disk.
Filed under: marketing, media, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: content, copyright, DRM, free, freetard, marketing, music, p2p, torrent, tv, video
This isn’t a post about consumer DRM, which I think has been covered well enough before by Cory and others (though some of the Bob=Carol issues still apply). Enterprises have a load of stuff that they need to (or are obliged to) protect. This is a post about the issues that I see with entitlements […]
Filed under: security | 8 Comments
Tags: ADL, cryptography, DLP, DRM, encryption, ERM, idm, PKI
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