Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free e-books in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

While consumer advocates complain about NextGen TV’s restrictive DRM viewing and copy restrictions, one company figured out how to make it work for whole home DVR and live TV viewing. As savvy ...

It’s pretty incredible to think that it’s been 10 years since we joined Tag Heuer at its glitzy New York event to share the moment when it unveiled its first-ever smartwatch. Released in response to ...

Microsoft says it has "partially" resolved a known issue that caused problems when trying to play DRM-protected video in Blu-ray/DVD/Digital TV applications. This bug affects Windows 11 24H2 systems, ...

Amazon’s latest Kindle update makes it almost impossible to remove DRM from newly downloaded e-books. A jailbreak specialist says the e-books are now tied to a hidden “account secret” only accessible ...

Amazon released a new firmware update for the 11th and 12th-generation Kindle e-readers last week. It has removed one of the last ways that users could back up Kindle books and remove the encryption ...

It’s not uncommon for Windows updates to cause problems on your computer. Last week, there were reports that Microsoft had fixed an audio issue in Windows 11 24H2. But now the operating system appears ...

The Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium came to the IBC Show in Amsterdam eager to present developments related to the DRM digital radio standard. The nonprofit group represents DRM, which it bills as ...

Hollow Knight: Silksong has unsurprisingly appeared on pirate websites in no seconds flat, but the game has also done what some media executives would incorrectly call impossible: get people to buy it ...

Whatever you think about Digital Rights Management software, it's hard to argue with the fact that it's annoying. Such technology exists, in theory, to protect the intellectual property of the ...