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What's DRM and should I avoid it?

Digital Living 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. It depends if the other major record labels sign DRM-free deals.

20 June 2007, 10:49

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living He's always been headstrong when it comes to record labels, somehow commanding producer-level control on his debut album when he was 19 years old. As more artists' contracts with labels run out, the way Prince's did, maybe we can look forward to...

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 14:48

Consumers frustrated by online music catalogues

Digital Living Considering also the increasing availability of music online through legitimate avenues such as Yahoo Music Unlimited, labels seem to be sending a message to consumers: pay a subscription fee in return for music files that only work with certain...

16 June 2005, 11:44

Top five ways MP3 has changed the world

Digital Living Bringing the major labels onlineWhen MP3 playback software started to go mainstream in the late '90s (for hard-core techies that is), music fans worldwide suddenly had a digital lingua franca for music.

17 August 2005, 14:30

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living The heat is onNapster is feeling the heat in the media and blogosphere right now, and I'm sure the record labels are none too happy about their music slipping from Napster and Microsoft's 'secure' environment.

9 May 2005, 14:48

Which UK music download store is the best?

Digital Living Although its library tops 2 million songs, there isn't any really mainstream music.eMusic is populated by indie artists, independent record labels and musicians you won't see on MTV. I'm trying to decide which MP3 player to buy based on which...

2 May 2007, 16:12

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living And yes, I methodically ripped hundreds of CDs, sticking neat little yellow labels on each one when I knew it had become a digital immortal. What does it mean to live a digital life? I know I spend an enormous amount of time quarelling with...

16 May 2005, 11:40

What's the best type of image stabilisation?

Digital Living Labels such as 'image stabilisation', 'anti-shake', 'vibration reduction' and various combinations are bandied about and mean different things to different companies. I'm looking to upgrade my digital camera for a new one, but this time around I...

25 July 2007, 12:16