DRM throwdown
DRM throwdown
Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
"Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
This week saw digital media types flocking to the Digital Rights Management Strategies conference, held in NYC's downtown Puck Building June 27 and 28. If you're at all interested in being able to use your movie and music files without too many overbearing DRM headaches, it's a topic you should be interested in.
While I was too busy waiting for the postman to bring my latest shiny object d'art to actually attend, I did manage to IM a few people who did, pressing them for details. The highlight, I'm told, was Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Appearing on a panel about the recent Grokster Supreme Court decision, the contrarian lawyer was the lone voice for anti-DRM forces, suggesting instead a kind of all-you-can-eat monthly license fee individuals could buy for unlimited music trading, kind of like an ASCAP license for a radio station.
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