Tag: DRM

• 8 January 2008

  Data Portability – the need for DRM

  So Robert Scoble got his Facebook account disabled for running a script that scrapped his account for names, email address and birthdays and load the data into his Plaxo account – so that he could match Facebook names with names in Plaxo’s database. On the surface this is no different from Facebook’s own importer –…
• 17 August 2007

  Google and the evils of DRM

  Last Wednesday Google shut down their commercial video service which let you buy or rent copyrighted videos. Unfortunately Google used a digital rights management (DRM) scheme that required Google to authorize, via the internet, the use of a video every time it was viewed – but since the service shut down this authorization can no…