The removal of digital rights management (DRM) protection from records sold online significantly boosts music sales, a report suggests. A working paper by University of Toronto researcher Laurina ...

Earlier today during the MacWorld 2009 keynote, Apple announced that the iTunes Store was on the way to completely dropping DRM. As of today, 8,000,000 of the 10,000,000 tracks are now available as ...

Microsoft Corp. has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is distributed without DRM protection. The ...

Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that is inaudibly embedded in the audio signal and cannot be removed Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology ...