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One of the many problems with DRM is its blanket nature. As well as locking down the work in question, it often causes all kinds of othe...

Despite overwhelming evidence that the public hates DRM, companies persist in coming up with new ways to impose it in an effort to contr...

The problems with DRM for videos, music, ebooks and games are well known. Despite those issues for the purchasers of digital goods, com...

A few weeks back, I wrote about the troubling prospect of DRM being baked into HTML5. At the centre of a related piece was a post by Brend...

Last week I explored at some length the curious reasons that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave for supporting the proposal to add hooks for DRM in...

A couple of week ago, I discussed the awful idea of adding DRM to the official HTML5 standard, and where that would lead us. More recent...

Back in January, we reported on a truly stupid idea : making DRM an official aspect of HTML5. Things then went quiet, until a couple of...

At the beginning of the year, I wrote abut a shameful move by the BBC to support adding DRM to HTML to control the playback of video cont...

Over the years Techdirt has run a number of stories that make it abundantly clear that you don't own those ebooks you paid for. B...

As we've noted before, many publishers have the crazy attitude that ebooks shouldn't be lent by libraries, and that it should be...

It is extraordinary how companies have failed to grasp three basic facts about DRM: that DRM only needs to be broken once, and it is bro...

The Web is one of the most dramatic demonstrations of the power of openness, alongside free software, which not coincidentally runs most ...

You would have thought by now that people would understand that DRM is not only a bad idea, but totally unnecessary: Apple dropped DRM fr...

One of the striking features of the drug world is how pharma companies become noticeably more inventive immediately before their patents...

Techdirt has been covering the UK's long-running saga of attempted copyright reform for some years. Most recently, we wondered whet...

Techdirt has been warning people for several years that they don't really own the ebooks they have on their Amazon Kindles. The most...

Last week Mike wrote about a new patent from Intellectual Ventures that seeks to assert ownership of the idea of DRM for 3D printing. ...

Techdirt writes a lot about the problems with DRM, and how inefficient and inconvenient it is. But for millions of visually-impaired peo...

Although the following is a little outside the mainstream of Open Enterprise, it does have a very clear moral with direct relevance to th...

Last month we wrote about a new copyright law in Japan whose punishments seemed so disproportionate it was hard to take it seriously. Fo...