As it pulls out of e-book sales, the company is to remove access to all books aquired from the Microsoft Store over the past two years
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Concern Raised At JPEG Copyright Clampdown
Proposals to make JPEG pictures harder to copy, prompts objection from digital rights group EFF
Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Support
Lesser of two evils? Mozilla admits DRM is not a desirable market solution, but bundles it anyway
Mozilla Reluctantly Adopts Digital Rights Management
Mozilla says it has no choice if it wants to keep its user base, while the user base calls adoption of DRM “a betrayal”
W3C Advances Controversial HTML5 Copyright Protection Plans
The W3C has published a first public draft of a controversial proposal that would make it easier for encrypted video to be distributed using HTML5
HTML5 Copyright Protection Proposals Branded “Unethical”
Google, Microsoft and Netflix lend their support to DRM for HTML5
Jeremy Hunt To Press Google On Copyright
The culture secretary wants a new front in the war on online copyright infringement with the help of Google
Nokia’s Free Ovi Music Service Killed By iTunes
The Ovi Music Unlimited service will be scrapped this year as Nokia admits DRM-free services win
Google Acquires Content Protection Specialist
The acquisition of Widevine could allow Google to bolster YouTube with video optimisation and digital rights management technologies
Negotiators Publish Near-Final ACTA Draft
The draft intellectual property rights treaty ACTA has been criticised for subverting democratic processes
ACTA Moves Closer To Final Draft
The controversial international copyright agreement has made it through another round of negotiations
UK Pirate Party Calls For Legalised File-Sharing
On Budget day, with the Digital Economy Bill still before Parliament, the UK Pirate Party's election manifesto demands new copyright laws and legal file-sharing