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Tech Activists Fight For Anti-copying Debate
News Enthusiasts of free software disrupted a Commerce Department meeting on Wednesday, insisting on their right to debate against the entertainment industry over anti-copying technologies. The Commerce Department organised the roundtable as a way for...
[July 18, 2002, 8:50]
Restraints Relaxed In CD Anti-copying Tech
News SunnComm is adding a spoonful of sugar to its anti-copying medicine. The new feature comes as record labels are placing anti-copying technology on CDs in an effort to prevent piracy. Most of the major record labels have announced plans to use some...
[April 16, 2002, 12:17]
Harry Potter At The Mercy Of Pirates
News Like most other film studios, Warner Bros.includes anti-copying technology on DVDs to prevent digital-to-digital recording, for example, to a computer hard drive. Others said Hollywood continues to spend heavily on lobbying efforts to bolster...
[June 21, 2002, 10:41]
Copy Protection Broken By Hitting 'shift'
News A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anti-copying measures being tested on CDs by BMG -- and they're as simple as holding down a computer's shift key. Under normal circumstances, the anti-piracy software...
[October 8, 2003, 8:50]
UK Buyers Fume Over Copy-protected CD
News Complaints about anti-copying technology have forced a record label to issue CD replacements for angry consumers--another setback for the music industry's stuttering campaign against record piracy. Universal Music Group has gone the furthest in its...
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
New PCs Restrict Copying
News That strategy might make sense as Microsoft attempts to attract Hollywood movie studios with its digital rights management and anti-copying technologies. But new anti-copying technology could hamper sales, say analysts and potential buyers.
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
Russians To Be Tried Under DMCA
News A US federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a Russian software company accused of selling a product designed to break anti-copying technology. The act included provisions making it illegal to traffic in tools...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
New CDs Designed To End 'ripping'
News Unlike previous anti-copying measures, this plan will place two versions of an album on a single disc: one in standard CD form, modified so that it can't be transferred to a computer hard drive, and another in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio...
[September 28, 2001, 14:25]
Merger Could Spawn More Copy-proof CDs
News Macrovision, a Santa Clara, California-based company, said it will acquire Israeli company Midbar Tech, with the intention of joining the rival anti-copying technologies from the two companies. Over the last two years, at least four companies...
[November 6, 2002, 9:27]
UK Launches 'Euro-DMCA' Debate
News In the US, the DMCA has received widespread criticism for restrictions which, among other things, have been used to stop researchers from lecturing on anti-copying technologies and from publicising holes in those technologies.
[August 12, 2002, 11:29]
Filtering Kazaa 'impossible' - Sharman
News It is hypocritical for representatives of the recording industry to continue to perpetrate the urban myth that there is some simple, effective, and easily implemented filtering technology that can identify and block all infringing music files...
[February 9, 2004, 7:35]
Hardware Safe From Copy Protection
News Others say strong anti-copying technology is needed to prevent copyright law and the industries that depend upon it from being swept away in the digital tide. Opponents of anti-copying technology fear that the benefits of digital technology as well...
[April 3, 2001, 10:53]
Net Politics Focus: House Of Reps. Passes Copyright Legislation
News Consumer, academic and computer hardware groups, however, fought the anti-circumvention provisions, saying copying already protected under "fair use" - classroom use, personal archiving and the like - would be endangered without specific language...
[August 6, 1998, 16:50]
New CD Protection Won't Play On PCs
News Consumer electronics giant Philips Electronics, which owns patents relating to CD technology, has called digital rights management schemes burdensome and raised questions about whether discs that include anti-copying features are entitled to be...
[March 6, 2002, 15:56]
Pushing 'shift' Draws Lawsuit
News Princeton PhD student John "Alex" Halderman published a paper on his Web site on Monday that gave detailed instructions on how to disarm the SunnComm technology, which aims to block unauthorised CD copying and MP3 ripping.
[October 10, 2003, 14:40]
Apple's Tunes Could Threaten Microsoft
News AAC has won positive quality comparisons in relation to its main competitor, MP3, but it has been kept on the sidelines in part due to licensing delays and a lack of built-in anti-copying controls. Notably, Microsoft is banking heavily on anti...
[April 30, 2003, 11:42]
Sites Spotlight Reports Of Copy-protected CDs
News Several types of anti-copying technology are being tested around the world. The British group's site lists albums believed to be blocked against copying in the United Kingdom as well as a wealth of background on the issue.
[November 13, 2001, 13:06]
Hollywood Heads Up Anti-piracy Charge
News The MPAA's other two proposals likely will seek to limit piracy by outlawing future components that receive digital TV broadcasts unless they follow anti-copying standards. But it will highlight Hollywood's legal attempts to permit the intentional...
[July 23, 2002, 8:14]
Software Firms Tweak Activation After Backlash
News The two-day symposium was sponsored by Macrovision, a leading supplier of tools for enabling activation, preventing copying of CDs and handling other rights management tasks. Semantics are also important, too, Hale said, noting that Macromedia...
[October 7, 2003, 10:00]
Microsoft Releases Vista SP1 Details
News In a tacit admission that Vista, as it stands, is not satisfactorily efficient when copying files, Microsoft promised to cut the time spent copying files on a single machine by a quarter, and the time taken to copy from one Service Pack 1 (SP1...
[December 11, 2007, 13:35]
