Craig's Interwebs: Warner wants you to go to a depot and pay to rip your DVDs to DRM-locked formats
[From Boing Boing]
Here’s a scathing editorial from Public Knowledge’s Michael Weinberg on the Warner Home Entertainment announcement of a new “service” that allows you to legally rip your DVDs by driving over to a special DVD-ripping depot and paying a fee to have them converted to…
Spotify to paying customers: drop dead
- Me: I just bought "White Light/White Heat" by the Velvet Underground, but only discovered that "Sister Ray" is not available for purchase. I've also discovered that it's only available on iTunes and Amazon as part of the complete album, i.e. not available as a single track. Can I please get a refund on the 5 credits I've used to download the rest of the album, so that I can buy the complete album elsewhere without having to buy the other tracks twice?
- Spotify: Thank you for getting in touch with Spotify. Unfortunately, we are not going to be able to refund for the Download credits on your account, as you have used them to purchase tracks. You have the right to cancel your purchase and receive a full refund within 14 days of purchase. However, as you have used the download credits, within the 14-day period you no longer have a right to cancel or withdraw from your purchase. Let us know if there is anything else we can help you with. Best wishes,
Stop Innovating, Please: Kaleidescape Loses DVD Ripping Case
Just as iTunes allows users to rip their CDs to their hard drives for later playback on a variety of devices, so Kaleidescape’s DVD products allow users to rip their DVD collections and later stream them to a variety of devices around their homes. But Kaleidescape faces a challenge Apple did not: DVDs are encrypted and the DMCA, passed in 1998, gives Hollywood the legal power to prohibit firms from “circumventing” copy protection.So, a judge ruled that the device was illegal because it ripped an encrypted copy of a DVD to memory, even though it would not play it back without the original disk in the player. And people wonder why Hollywood is dying.
UltraViolet: DRM by any other name still stinks | Molly Rants - CNET News
Yet another new DRM scheme that will cost you money. And an inconvenient one, at that.
