FairPlay
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IPod...Helix DRM. Example stores include Napster and MSN Music. RealNetworks claims that Apple is creating problems for itself by using FairPlay to lock users into using the iTunes Store. Steve Jobs has stated that Apple makes little profit from... In this article: IPod, Apple, Itunes, IPod Touch, Revenue, IPod Classic, IPod Nano, Itunes Store, Iphone, and Microsoft Windows |
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International Herald Tribune | October 03, 2007
Apple wrestles music industry over online sales - International Herald Tribune
...make some music incompatible with some digital players. Rather, industry experts say, the difficulty is that different versions of the technology are used. The music companies have called on Jobs to license FairPlay to makers of rival devices.
In this article: Apple, Itunes, Steve Jobs, IPod, EMI, Joint venture, Revenue, Bertelsmann, and Europe
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
ITunes Store
On April 2, 2007, Apple and the record label EMI announced that the iTunes Store would begin offering, as an additional purchasing option, tracks from EMI's catalog encoded as 256 kbit/s AAC without FairPlay or any other DRM. On May...
In this article: Itunes, Apple Inc., Itunes Store, IPod, IPod Touch, Apple Corps, Iphone, Steve Jobs, and Universal Studios
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www.washingtonpost.com | February 10, 2007
The Buzz on the Beats
...response -- "Apple's offer to license FairPlay to other technology companies is a welcome breakthrough" -- conveniently ignored Jobs's basic point: Hey, what about Jobs' idea to eliminate DRM software? The RIAA didn't address that...
In this article: Steve Jobs, Recording Industry Association of America, Apple, Itunes, Walt Disney Co., Hand grenade, and Pixar movies
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Wired - Entertainment | September 27, 2007
Like Amazon's DRM-Free Music Downloads? Thank Apple
...DRM solution or music that isn't protected at all. And Apple chairman Steve Jobs has repeatedly balked at licensing FairPlay for use on competing download services or devices. That meant music companies had to choose between using...
In this article: Apple, Amazon, Itunes, IPod, Steve Jobs, EMI, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Iphone, Microsoft Zune, and Universal Music Group
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Apple's Jobs calls on music industry to drop DRM
...question to the record labels. Jobs said Apple had concluded that if it licenses FairPlay to other companies it could no longer guarantee to protect the music it licenses from the major record companies. "Why would the big four music...
In this article: Apple, Steve Jobs, Itunes, IPod, Beneficiary, Bertelsmann, Vivendi, Gartner, and Silicon Valley
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Ars Technica | September 29, 2008
Norway gives Apple deadline to open up FairPlay DRM
...WMP-DRM to play songs encoded in Windows Media formats. So, Thon plans to demand that Apple make FairPlay-protected content playable on other portable music players. Steve Jobs made his position on the matter known last year with...
In this article: Apple, Itunes, Norway, Itunes Store, Amazon MP3, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, and EMI
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Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again
...attitudes around the industry are starting to shift. Apple Inc. has modified its own online store, iTunes, to block similar efforts to break its FairPlay copy protection scheme. But Apple's chief, Steve Jobs, started calling for an end...
In this article: Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Itunes, Steve Jobs, The Recording Industry Association of America, Forrester Research, and Amazon.com Inc.
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AppleInsider | February 02, 2009
Heated Christmas call from Jobs secured iTunes changes
...store." In response, Warner's Edgar Bronfman said Jobs' suggestion was "completely without logic or merit" while the RIAA missed Jobs' entire point and welcomed the non-existent offer to license FairPlay to other companies. It also...
In this article: Steve Jobs, Apple, Itunes, Variable pricing, Itunes Store, Iphone, Universal, and IPod
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eFluxMedia | January 07, 2008
Are We Heading To A DRM Free World?
...that Sony BMG is considering ditching DRM for its music catalog. Digital rights management schemes, such as Apple's FairPlay technology or Microsoft s Certified for , limit how many times users can copy their music and which devices...
In this article: Microsoft, Sony BMG, Steve Jobs, Universal Music, Itunes, EMI, Amazon MP3, Amazon, Apple, and Warner Music Group
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FairPlay is a digital rights management (DRM) technology created by Apple Inc., based on technology created by the company Veridisc. FairPlay is built into the QuickTime multimedia software and used by the iPhone, iPod, iTunes, and iTunes Store and the App Store. Any protected song purchased from the iTunes Store with iTunes is encoded with FairPlay. FairPlay digitally encrypts AAC audio files and prevents users from playing these files on unauthorized computers.
The majority of FairPlay-encrypted content is purchased through the iTunes Store, using the iTunes software. The iTunes software relies on Apple's Quicktime multimedia software for decoding and playback of the encrypted files. Every media player capable of utilizing QuickTime is capable of playing back FairPlay-encrypted files, including RealPlayer, Media Center, and Media Player Classic.
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