December 28, 2007 • 5:43 am
In a previous post I speculated about the need for a business model shift on the distribution of digital content. It looks like the industry is recognizing the obvious, at least with respect to music content.
TopTech News reports that:
Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tunes on Amazon.com Inc.’s digital music store.
Until now, Warner Music had resisted offering songs by its artists in the MP3 format, which can be copied to multiple computers and burned onto CDs without restriction and played on most PCs and digital media players, including Apple Inc.’s iPod and Microsoft Relevant Products/Services Corp.’s Zune.
The deal raises the total number of MP3s for sale through Amazon’s music download store to more than 2.9 million. Warner Music’s entire catalog, including work by artists Led Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin and Sean Paul, will be added to the site throughout the week. The Amazon store launched with nearly 2.3 million songs in September.
This is an interesting development because it seem to represent an attitude shift by the industry that spend billions on useless technologies and gave us the rootkit scandal in the process of trying to prevent the unavoidable.
Filed under: DRM, in the News
December 18, 2007 • 6:55 am
I recommend a visit to the SANS portal where you can find the updated version of the Top-20 2007 Security Risks list. Although going through the details take some time, it is time well spent for anyone having to manage IT services. It not only gives the list of vulnerabilities for popular software, but also valuable advice on how to reduce the associated risks.
Filed under: Security, in the News
December 9, 2007 • 5:46 am
ID theft is making news as the costs of this type of crime increases day by day. The National Post run recently a special section on Security (one of the articles is linked below).
Coincidentally, the same day Steve Gibson his well listened Security Now Podcast episode with the tittle Is Privacy Dead?.
As in the case of DRM, these problems don’t seem to be amenable to a technological solution. Digital technologies are changing the world in such a way that we will have to make changes to the way we handle personal information. Again, everything boils down to the necessity of reviewing the authentication protocols we use in our relations with business and institutions.
Online anonymity a thing of the past
National Post
06 Dec 2007
?On the Internet, nobody knows you?re a dog,? said one canine Web surfer to another in a 1993 New Yorker cartoon. The implication was that your Internet browser offered you a comforting anonymity. You could go about your business without fear of… read more…
Filed under: Authentication, InSecurity, in the News
