For thousands of years, people have used cryptography to safeguard important information. While the Romans used basic letter shifting codes, today’s world of widespread digital content sharing demands ...

To trust that Android smartphones and many other devices are secure from piracy, these popular streaming services make use of Google’s Widevine DRM platform. As one of the industry’s oldest DRM ...

DRM stands for 'digital rights management', and is a technology used by record labels and online music stores to limit what you can and can't do with the music you buy from them. For example, Apple ...

Sure, it's highly unlikely now, but what about 5 or 10 years from now? The fact is, consumers of DRM-laden music are at the mercy of whoever holds their encryption keys. Greg Sandoval covers media and ...

DRM (digital rights management) technology may actually be good for consumers because it could give them more choices for downloading or buying copyrighted content, some speakers at a U.S. Federal ...

Read the complete transcript of this interview: Tim Siglin: Welcome back to Streaming Media West 2019. I'm Tim Siglin, contributing editor with Streaming Media magazine and the founding executive ...

Today’s the day when the music at the iTunes Store is unshackled from the bonds of digital rights management (DRM). And exactly what should you celebrate (or mourn) with this event? Let’s take a look.

I just finishing reading Steve Jobs' open letter, Thoughts on Music, and I couldn't agree more ... Assuming Jobs is correct that the music industry sells 20 billion DRM-free songs (via CD) every year ...

The FCC recently adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that recommends giving AM stations in the United States the flexibility to adopt all-digital broadcasting voluntarily, based in part on the ...