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3 unusual facts about DRM


Obfuscation

In white-box cryptography, obfuscation refers to the protection of cryptographic keys from extraction when they are under the control of the adversary, e.g., as part of a DRM scheme.

ThinkPad Tablet

Lenovo has explained that this happens because the tablet contains DRM protected software and Lenovo proprietary code on the Android image.

Viodentia

A number of prominent websites use DRM to ensure that media and other downloads are unable to be copied for software piracy or other improper purposes.


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Adam Wilcox

His GT Racing Career started by winning the new Lotus Sport Elise Championship in 2000, and then backed by ADVAN/Yokohama Tyres he moved to Japan to compete in the All Japan GT Championship for 3 years during 2001 - 2003 seasons, driving a Porsche GT3R and a Nismo Nissan S15 before moving back to the UK in 2004 and winning the British GTC Championship in a DRM Racing Ferrari F360 GTC.

Alexandre Oliva

In 2008, Oliva translated and produced "O Porco e a Caixa", a Brazilian Portuguese translation of "The Pig and the Box" - a Creative Commons-licensed book that teaches the perils of DRM to children.

Android rooting

India's copyright law permits circumventing DRM for non-copyright-infringing purposes.

Antoine Haddad

DRM was headed by the late Nassib Lahoud who was former Ambassador to Washington (1990–91), former Lebanese legislator(1991-2005), former presidential candidate on behalf of March 14 Alliance till November 2007, and former minister (2008-2009).

ArtRage

For example, backdated upgrades to Studio Pro included bug fixes, DRM removal for Steam users, and a fix to allow it to work properly on OS X Mavericks, and the iPad version was updated to include Retina support.

Ben Craven

In 2007, Craven recorded the EP Under Deconstruction as a free download, protesting against the use of DRM in the music industry.

Connect360

Although unable to support Apple's DRM protected media, recent updates to Connect360 support QuickTime's H.264, MPEG-4, DivX and Xvid video at a maximum resolution of 1080p.

Dada Entertainment

Formed in October 2007 and based in New York City, Dada Entertainment was the first company to offer both ringtones and DRM-free full-length MP3s for mobile devices and personal computers paid via the mobile phone.

Gallium3D

Under Gallium3D, Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel drivers will manage the memory and Direct Rendering Interface (DRI2) drivers will be more GPU processing oriented.

Hanyu Da Cidian

This version includes SecuROM DRM copy protection software in its installation, possibly in response to the earlier version's ISO image being illegally distributed on VeryCD.

Harald Grohs

1975 Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM) for BMW for Team Faltz, first wins, but also a bad crash on the Nürburgring, wins 9 Hours of Kyalami with Jody Scheckter

INDICARE

The overall goal of INDICARE (The INformed DIalogue about Consumer Acceptability of DRM Solutions in Europe) was to , help to reconcile heterogeneous interests of multiple stakeholders, and to support the emergence of a common European position with regard to consumer and user issues of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions.

Miracast

Miracast can stream videos that are in 1080p, media with DRM such as DVDs, as well as protected premium content streaming, enabling devices to stream feature films and other copy-protected materials.

Nova Iguaçu Volcano

In 2004, the Rio de Janeiro State Department of Mineral Resources (DRM-RJ) started a public information campaign about the geology of Nova Iguaçu with special attention given to the Municipal Park and the theories concerning the extinct volcano.

Passion Radio

Passion Radio became one of the first commercial radio stations in the UK to take part in a trial of Digital Radio Mondiale and could be heard in parts of Sussex on 1386 kHz DRM.

Radiohead Box Set

The box set was released in physical form as a limited edition seven CD box set, with each album in original digipak sleeves, as a digital download as DRM-free 320 kbit/s MP3 files with digital artwork and as a 4GB USB Stick.

Sauber SHS C6

Following Le Mans though, Brun and Sauber would improve again, as they finished 7th at Norisring, 4th at Hockenheimring, and 8th at Hockenheimring again in DRM, then followed by a 9th at the 1000km Spa and 5th at 1000 km Mugello in WEC.

SharpMusique

SharpMusique was a rewrite in C# of PyMusique, which was an iTunes Music Store client written in Python by Travis Watkins, Cody Brocious, and Jon Lech Johansen for the purpose of allowing downloading songs from the iTunes Music Store before DRM was applied to them from a Mac, Linux, or Windows computer.

Sideloading

There is no common DRM solution that covers all devices that can make use of sideloading delivery, while streaming media can be partially controlled on the server's end.

Simply Audiobooks

These downloads are DRM-protected WMA files which can be downloaded to any Windows computer with Windows Media Player 10 or 11 and are compatible with most MP3 players.

The Right to Read

It is notable for being written before the use of Digital Rights Management technology was widespread (although DVD video discs which used DRM had appeared the year before, and various proprietary software since the 1970s had made use of some form of copy protection), and for predicting later hardware-based attempts to restrict how users could use content, such as Trusted Computing.

Thomas Reilly

On November 30, 2005 Reilly said that he was conducting an investigation of Sony BMG over their use of the XCP Digital Rights Management DRM on Sony audio CDs.

Vendor lock-in

As of January 6, 2009, all 4 big music studios (Warner Bros., Sony BMG, Universal, and EMI) have signed up to remove the DRM from their tracks, at no extra cost.


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