In cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, the free-software organization calls on the W3C to keep DRM out of Web standards. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web. Supporting it is better than losing Firefox users, Mozilla says. Stephen ...

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DRM, or Digital Rights Management, lets publishers control how you use the software or content you buy or subscribe to. DRM is commonly seen in music, such as in downloaded tracks from streaming ...

Well, isn't this interesting. Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has labeled Sony's rootkit technology, used in copyright protection software on some CDs, as spyware. ZDNet writer Matt Loney explains more in ...

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is planning to launch a large-scale campaign against digital rights management later this year. Peter Brown, the executive director of FSF, said in an interview ...

Nokia has agreed to license Microsoft’s new PlayReady digital-rights-management technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software. The deal extends ...

Nokia Corp. has agreed to license Microsoft Corp.’s new PlayReady DRM (digital rights management) technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software.