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Insight Research: Maintenance cost of DRM to reach $9bn by 2012

Submitted by Georg Greve on Tue, 2007-03-27 12:17.

This article in IT Week quotes a report of Insight Research which estimates that spending on DRM systems is going to reach $9bn by 2012. This gives us a good idea of the systematic cost of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) systems, a cost that will have to be borne by authors and artists with every upload into the system, as well as society at large with every access to works within that system.

Peter Jenner (IMMF): DRM is dead

Submitted by Georg Greve on Sat, 2006-11-04 11:58.

The Register has an interesting interview with Peter Jenner, former manager of bands like Pink Floyd and the Clash and current secretary general of the International Music Managers Forum (IMMF).

CPTech's work on DRM

Submitted by Manon Ress on Tue, 2006-10-17 17:32.

In the field of digital rights Management (DRM) and technological protection measures (TPM), CPTech has focused mostly on elements of the global policy landscape. We are examining a fundamental question: should we, and more importantly, can we, effectively regulate TPM/DRM technologies in order to ensure that the public interest in access to knowledge goods is protected? And how might that regulation be undertaken in a world of global movement of knowledge goods?

anti-DRM demonstration outside the AIPPI Congress in Gothenburg

Submitted by Henrik Sandklef on Thu, 2006-10-12 12:24.

Last Monday (October 9) 8.00 FSFE started their second day protesting against Digital Restrictions Management. This time the protest was done outside Swedish Exhibition Centre in Gothenburg and the entrance to the Aippi Congress 2006 in Gothenburg.

European Commission seeking position on DRM

Submitted by Georg Greve on Thu, 2006-10-12 09:23.

IP-Watch.org reports that "EU Online Content Stakeholders Debate DRM", which demonstrates the need for a much more informed debate on Digital Restrictions Management.

Lifting the veil on DRM in different ways

Submitted by Georg Greve on Mon, 2006-10-09 22:54.

In the entire discussion on Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) there are multiple problems that prevent broader discussion and understanding. One of them is that when talking about "Digital Restrictions Management" (DRM) the eyes of many people simply glaze over, as it is quite a mouthful and sounds technical, a certain attention killer.