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Mobile-phone jailbreaking legal, rules US copyright office

...execute software applications" is permissible. The Copyright Office also allowed bypassing the anticopying technology used in DVDs, but only for "documentary filmmaking", noncommercial videos and... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

'Unplayable' CDs spark French investigation

...have launched an investigation of EMI France and music retailer Fnac over anticopying technology included on CDs that allegedly renders them unplayable on some systems... Read more

27 August, 2004 by Christophe Guillemin

Microsoft files lawsuit over source code theft

...has been combating a program released online called FairUse4WM, which successfully stripped anticopying guards from songs downloaded through subscription media services such as Napster or... Read more

27 September, 2006 by John Borland

Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM

...questions and complaints. Many expressed anger over Sony's use of "rootkit" anticopying software as a means of protecting copyright. "I am not here to... Read more

2 August, 2006 by Candace Lombardi

Microsoft: Zombies most prevalent Windows threat

...are rising sharply. Rootkits lunged into the public spotlight last year when anticopying software on certain Sony BMG Music Entertainment CDs was found to contain... Read more

13 June, 2006 by Joris Evers

Sony plans patch after DRM rootkit row

...some copy-restricted CDs. Earlier in the week, security experts said that anticopying technology used by Sony BMG could be adapted by virus writers to... Read more

3 November, 2005 by John Borland

DeCSS programmer turns attention to iTunes

...as a demonstration of how to evade, if not exactly break, the anticopying technology wrapped around the songs sold by Apple in its iTunes store... Read more

25 November, 2003 by John Borland

What's wrong with digital rights management?

...the services that do give them that. And those are illicit." Incompatible anticopying technologies known as digital rights management (DRM) are being applied to everything... Read more

7 November, 2003 by John Borland

Microsoft swimming upstream with Windows Media

...its distribution mechanism is ultimately impaired. The company's digital rights management anticopying technology, which is built into the Windows Media technology, has proved to... Read more

11 August, 2003 by John Borland

DVD-copying case heads for court

...of products that can crack copyright protection measures. While most DVDs include anticopying features as a shield against piracy, 321 essentially contends that consumers should... Read more

15 May, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Copy-proof CDs flood Europe

...market this year. Silicon Valley company Macrovision said on Wednesday that its anticopying technology had now been applied to more than 100 million CDs worldwide... Read more

3 April, 2003 by John Borland

Industry still grappling with copy protection tech

...many makers of chips for consumer-electronics devices had hoped to build anticopying technology into the chips themselves, a process known as "hard coding". That... Read more

11 March, 2003 by John Borland

Compromise copyright bill in works

...such as music CDs to be clearly labelled with explanations of any anticopying restrictions. Several other legislators are preparing, or have already introduced, bills that... Read more

20 February, 2003 by John Borland

Antipiracy foes reach agreement

...off a series of legislative proposals that would do everything from imposing anticopying standards on PC and electronics makers to regulating the sale of copy... Read more

15 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Brit cracks Microsoft's e-book software

...British programmer has released software online that is said to dismantle the anticopying technology in the Microsoft Reader e-book software, setting up another potential... Read more

9 January, 2003 by John Borland

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