Posts Tagged ‘ DRM ’

Ripping Music Revisited

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August 11, 2012
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Amazon MP3 Tech Support is useless. Of course, as friendly as Amazon is, they have been consistent useless to us. From insisting our package would be delivered when UPS insisted it had been delayed to the latest, asking us to email log files repeatedly to an address that sent back it did not accept...
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Digital Content: Do you really own it? Shouldn’t you?

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January 1, 2011

Earlier, while writing the first installment of our new series, Downstreaming, the issue of digital content ownership came into play. After all, we don't own digital content, we own a license for it. If you buy a DVD, you own it. If you buy a book, you own it. The fact that we don't...
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Why You Might Finally Give in and Buy a Kindle

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September 26, 2010
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It is time to revisit the pros and cons of the Kindle, which has finally plummeted into the land of reasonable pricing. Let's go back to some of the reasons we quoted for buying and not buying a Kindle last year, and update it a bit.
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Didn’t Buy an Ebook Reader – But We Were Alone

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January 3, 2010
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For a long time, we wavered on the issue of whether to buy an e-book reader. However, after we got a lot of money this holiday season in Amazon gift cards, we wavered and considered reversing ourselves, even though we have major issues with the Kindle.
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NBC Direct offering HD Downloads of Shows

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March 1, 2009
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Image via CrunchBase For Windows only, NBC is offering an application that runs in the background and can download and watch shows offline. It works with Firefox or Internet Explorer, and contains both ads and restricted use, ensuring you can’t copy the files or transfer them to your mobile device. Now, DRM annoys us,...
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