Arnold Reinhold has posted a summary of the technical overview of Palladium that Microsoft recently presented at MIT.

Palladium is a collection of Microsoft technologies for enforcing system-wide DRM. The technologies fall into four categories: (1) “Curtained memory” ensures that code can’t observe (read) or modify (write) other code’s memory. (2) “Attestation” means that code can […]

The RIAA claims to do what it does in the name of artists. Well, artists are getting and less and less shy about calling them on that. Today, an article by accidental activist Janis Ian — an artist with 17 major-label albums, nine Grammy nominations and 37 years of experience in the music industry — […]

Microsoft and the National Hockey League have started a subscription service that will allow fans to search for and watch highlights from the 2002-2003 season. The service is $5 per month or $30 per season, and eventually fans will be able to watch entire games for an extra $3 per game.

This deal is presumed to […]