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Sony's rootkit woes aren't over
News Sony BMG, which Sony operates jointly with Bertelsmann Music Group, agreed earlier this week to pay $1.5m in fines and pay customers in California and Texas whose computers suffered damage as a result of Sony's surreptitiously installed digital...
[December 21, 2006, 8:20]
Sony to promote music on old enemy
News CenterSpan Communications, which bought Scour's assets in bankruptcy court last year, said Tuesday that Sony would promote music from Macy Gray, B2K, Five for Fighting, Flickerstick, and John Mayer through the service, which has been revamped and...
[May 15, 2002, 11:10]
Microsoft invests in online TV firm Move Networks
News As part of Monday's deal, Move Networks said it will support Windows Server-based encoding, Microsoft video-compression technology (codecs), and Silverlight's digital rights management (DRM). Microsoft has invested in internet TV company Move...
[August 26, 2008, 8:14]
Microsoft and Nokia agree music DRM deal
News As a result of the deal, Microsoft is adding support for the Open Mobile Association (OMA)'s digital rights management system, together with the open AAC audio compression format. Microsoft and Nokia have struck a deal that will see Microsoft's...
[February 14, 2005, 16:55]
Sony rootkit victims 'in every US state'
News The digital rights management (DRM) software is automatically installed by some Sony BMG music CDs and is hidden using a rootkit, which can be exploited by a particular type of Trojan horse and hence constitutes a significant security risk.
[January 17, 2006, 16:40]
Linux lab urges GPL clarification
News GPL version 2 was published in 1991, and the foundation is drafting a successor to tackle new issues such as software patents and digital rights management. The Free Software Foundation urgently needs to explain how software governed by the current...
[September 21, 2006, 10:35]
Seven new members for Liberty Alliance
News It is notable the body is now also talking about using its standards for applications such as digital rights management -- a vital future area for Microsoft, which holds key ground in the development of web services.
[October 18, 2004, 15:55]
News Schmooze: Record companies smack Net users
News Many have remarked on the reports seeded by Microsoft over the past few days about its digital rights management initiative, Palladium, and its future Xbox hypothesis, called Freon. "Unnamed sources" have been leaking the record companies' latest...
[July 5, 2002, 11:35]
Adobe brings Flash to LiveCycle Enterprise Suite
News Both allow customers to layer security and digital rights management onto their documents, Whatcott said. Adobe on Monday released an early version of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, a revamped version of its document management and work-flow server.
[June 4, 2007, 17:50]
Microsoft's plan for 'new JPEG' leaves users cold
Talkback The digital rights management built into "Windows Media Video" and XBox Propriatory Sound Track Files (that the user rips from CD's) should be clear warnings that Microsoft are not in the business of "open standards"!
[June 1, 2006, 12:33]
Microsoft opens up Office 2003 XML
News Building XML data-labelling technology into its Office applications is a critical underpinning for Office 2003, allowing Microsoft to introduce advances around collaboration and digital rights management.
[November 17, 2003, 16:20]
'Unplayable' CDs spark French investigation
News In addition, such digital rights management technology has been linked to problems playing back discs on some devices. French authorities have launched an investigation of EMI France and music retailer Fnac over anticopying technology included on...
[August 27, 2004, 8:45]
JaAksi
Talkback GPL and friends are not really on the same wavelength as concepts like Digital Rights Management, at least as they are currently constituted; both because the concept is anathema and that the practicalities of writing Open Source DRM systems make...
[June 12, 2008, 16:57]
Sony DRM rootkit 'legal in the UK'
Talkback The purspose of this filter driver is to impair the software (thus preventing it from playing the CD) other than the player bundled with the CD, and this is what actually Sony calls "Digital Rights Management".
[November 8, 2005, 10:23]
Nokia to include Windows Live services
News Earlier this month, Nokia also said it had licensed Microsoft's PlayReady mobile digital rights management technology. Setting aside its handset rivalry with Nokia, Microsoft on Wednesday announced it has inked a pact to put mobile versions of its...
[August 23, 2007, 9:14]
Security Engineering review
Reviews Look, by comparison, at the list of just some of the topics Anderson covers: usability, psychology, access control, economics, banking, nuclear command and control, copyright and digital rights management, terrorism.
[October 3, 2008, 14:51]
Microsoft stomps on Media Player bug
News The flaw that's rated "critical" mishandles Windows Media Player's requests for media files containing "digital rights management" software, potentially allowing attackers access to Internet Explorer's cache, the place where temporary IE files are...
[June 28, 2002, 8:54]
UK Linux guru backs GPL 3
News His viewpoint is in direct contradiction to Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, who said last week that he won't convert Linux to GPL 3 as he objects to its proposed digital rights management (DRM) provisions.
[January 31, 2006, 12:10]
Rupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary
Blog If you want any more, you'll have to pay for it" jokes the presenter, which in the context of the subject under discussion -- digital rights management -- elicits a rather uneasy laugh from the floor.
[September 19, 2003, 18:25]
The new Scour: Users will pay
News The new Scour will have digital rights management elements built in to the technology. CenterSpan Communications, the new owners of Scour's file-swapping technology, plan to start charging users when the service is re-launched sometime before March...
[December 15, 2000, 9:52]
