The “Break it Down” Blog

Sony BMG Quits with the DRM

Thank the gods. Sony BMG has agreed to stop shipping DRM’ed music on it’s disks as they suddenly realized while they were flailing around trying to “stop all the piracy” that costs the RIAA $77 trillion dollars a year (rough estimate) Apple was kicking their ass at legitimate music sales. Seems to suggest the rampant piracy [...]

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Windows Vista HDMI DRM Fucks All DRM’ed Media

Laurence Hartje sends in a link to a story that is pure-suck… The gist of this (as I understand it) is that in Windows Vista, the new DRM functionality in the operating system is universal and tied to the hardware. More specifically, if you purchase movies while a monitor with a specific HDMI signature is attached [...]

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Removing iTunes DRM

You curious how to rip Apple’s iTunes DRM out of the music you’ve bought and have limited rights to? Click on over and get some ideas. Summary: Got a Mac? FairGame Got a PC? QTFairUse6

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iTunes DRM-Free Music Embeds Account Information

Very interesting post over on TUAW. It looks like the DRM-free music you can download from iTunes now (and hopefully growing in the future) is not something you would likely want to throw up on a torrent site anytime soon, mostly due to the fact that the mp4 file contains your personal information in it. Erica [...]

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