If you download these to your computer, that is format shifting, but it may be illegal if you had to circumvent DRM to do it. Doctorow added, "that means that even though copyright law says you ...

Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computing was inspiring ... that’s long been in use is Digital Rights Management, or DRM. At its core this is the ability for a device to verify ...

Moreover, Microsoft Adventure is widely accepted as one of the first, if not the very first, PC games to ship with built-in DRM (digital rights management), to prevent unauthorized copying.

Back in 2004, the launch of Half-Life 2 would help launch Steam on the path to eventually becoming the de facto digital rights management (DRM) system for the vast majority of PC games.

"It's a bad idea to make technology that treats the owner of a computer as an adversary to be controlled, and DRM wrecks the fairness of the copyright bargain by preventing you from exercising the ...

Postal movie rental service LoveFilmhas signed an agreement with US-based digital media solutions Widevine to provide DRM across its catalogue. Widevine will provide a solution that allows the ...