Posts Tagged ‘ Wordcast ’

DRM Fatally Broken; Ad-Supported Media The Future

Aug 2nd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Corporate Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe today offered his DRM Scorecard, summarizing it Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero.
“Every single significant attempt at consumer-music DRM has been cracked,” writes Wolfe. He supports this by noting that CSS (older DVD encryption), Fairplay (Apple’s encryption technology), AACS (new DVD encryption technology) and Windows Media DRM have all been cracked.
The sorry [...]

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Audible Kills Wordcast Service; Podcasting Not Quite Dead Yet

May 30th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services, iPods & Portable Media Players

Audible has announced that it is shuttering its proprietary podcasting alternative, Audible Wordcast:
Dear Audible Wordcast customer,
Regretfully, as of September 1, 2007, the Audible Wordcast service will no longer be available for public use. In the coming 90 days, we’ll provide you with details regarding the process of shutting down or moving your podcasts to another [...]

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