Archive for the 'DRM' Category

Cinavia DRM Aimed to Stop Piracy On Blu-ray, PS3s

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010


Haven’t heard about Cinavia? Chances are, you will soon if you download pirated movies and attempt to play them back on a Blu-ray player or through a PS3. Cinavia is a somewhat new DRM technology that uses "audio watermarking" embedded into the audio stream portion of a movie. In a nutshell, what it does is [...]

DRM Fiasco Ruins James Cameron’s Avatar 3D Preview

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Avatar, the long-awaited science fiction epic from James Cameron will launch this week, but already some lucky individuals have seen the movie. The same cannot be said of attendees at a 3D preview showing in Germany yesterday though. The movie’s DRM ‘protection’ system failed and the video could not be decoded.

Apple Says Audiobooks Must Have DRM

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Audio DRM has all but dissapeared from MP3s. Apple said earlier this year that there would be no more DRM on music available via the ITunes music store. However, as prolific writer and blogger Cory Doctorow has found out, they still require DRM on their Audiobooks.