Microsoft's Amir Majidimehr said something stupid at an Informa Telecoms & Media Digital Rights Management conference today: Microsoft doesn't want to support an ecosystem of hobbyists. Ian Brown ...

The rest of the world is beginning to get hip to what happens when the provider of a digital rights management technology (DRM) decides to change gears as Microsoft recently did when it essentially ...

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against anonymous "John Does 1-10" whom they allege have broken Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM with stolen source code. The only currently-known "John Doe" in the case is a ...

Microsoft is suing a group of hackers who apparently gained access to the company’s proprietary source code, creating a program that wipes media files clean of file-sharing restrictions. The suit, ...

REDMOND, Wash., June 13, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced two key Digital Rights Management (DRM) milestones that highlight the rapid acceptance and adoption of Microsoft’s DRM technologies for ...

Showing that the company still believes in its PlaysForSure DRM strategy, Microsoft has introduced a new mobile DRM package today called PlayReady. Described as a "multimedia content access technology ...

Digital rights management technology will enable the author or owner of a document, a music file, a game or other digital content to control access rights to that content or even charge for it ...

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Fresh off the release of its new Vista and Windows Mobile 6 operating systems, Microsoft has unveiled a digital rights management technology called PlayReady. By Antony Bruno, Billboard.biz, The ...

There are some very dark rumours about what Microsoft is planning for Windows 10 and the 4K television standard and it seems to have roped in Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. PCWorld has uncovered a ...

Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital tunes. But Microsoft , which began competing head to head with Apple in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way ...