HP has announced that it'll be launching its own streaming music service that'll be pre-loaded on sixteen models of its desktop and laptop computer range. The tunes will be supplied by UK-based Omnifone, which also runs a mobile music service called...

The Blu-ray Disc Association has finally got round to making good on its promise of allowing consumers to make a personal backup copy of content that they've bought. After demonstrating the technology at CES 2008, it's taken until now for the functionality...

Although the tendancy for big corporations to include DRM in all their products appears to be on the wane, there's still plenty of publishers who include it by default in their music, film and e-books

That may be fuelling a new generation...

Rockstar has said that Grand Theft Auto IV for PC will come with DRM software, but that there won't be a limit on installations.

The rather unpopular anti-piracy software often limits the number of times a game can be installed on new machines,...

Amazon has won a major coup after winning the right to sell DRM-free music from Sony BMG's catalogue.

Amazon MP3 will now be the only retailer to offer customers DRM-free MP3 downloads from the four top music labels, as well as more 33,000...

Kylie, Arctic Monkeys and The White Strips all had top selling albums last year according to 2007 sales figures from online download company 7digital.

Five Radiohead albums also featured in the Top 20 following the release of their back catalogue...

The government has proposed a new law that would mean copying compact discs on to computers or iPods would become legal.

Although the majority of consumers already copy CDs on to their computer, they are actually still breaking the law....

SONY BMG music entertainment has confirmed that it will offer tracks DRM free with the announcement that it is launching a new service called "Platinum MusicPass" launching on 15 January.

The new service will offer a series of digital album...

The month started with a massive announcement for the music download industry.

Apple and EMI announced DRM-free iTunes Plus offering copyright protection free music through Apple's iTunes music store.

It meant for the first...

The shock-horror story to come out of yesterday's launch of iTunes Plus with the higher quality audio and DRM-free tracks is that information, including the user's name and account email, is embedded into each music file purchased.

Although...

Warner has signed a deal with MySpace to begin offering music to it’s members on the social networking site - but with DRM intact.

Many expected Warner to follow EMI's move with Apple to offer DRM-free downloads; however the record company...

It seems music fans are happy to pay extra for DRM free music according to a new online poll.

In a recent poll on Pocket-lint, 62% of people said that they are prepared to pay extra for music that is Digital Rights Management free.

Responding to a petition calling for a ban on DRM, or digital copy-protection, the British government has said that DRM offers more choice to consumers.

The petition, which was signed by 1414 people online, requested that DRM be outlawed...

Sony is being compelled by a court in California to compensate people for damage to their computers caused by the DRM used on some Sony BMG CDs.

Those affected will receive only $175 each, if they can produce a description of the damage to...

Microsoft sprang into action after a technology blog published a story about a piece of software that could strip the DRM from downloaded Windows Media files.

After engadget writers posted a story to say that they had successfully stripped...