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Harry Potter at the mercy of pirates
News Still, there are signs that its emphasis has shifted in light of recent encryption breakdowns, such as a high-profile 1999 hack of CSS (Content Scrambling System), a digital scrambling technology that was an industry standard for DVDs.
[June 21, 2002, 10:41]
Movie makers mull future of DVD
News Several Internet postings last weekend seem to indicate that a group of Norwegian programmers have breached Hollywood's digital defense against the copying of digital video discs -- known as the content scrambling system, or CSS.
[November 5, 1999, 10:50]
DVD industry's fallback plan: Sue!
News Known as the Content Scrambling System, the technology acted as a digital defense protecting what movie studios consider to be near-perfect copies of their films. One of the groups that published the source code on a mailing list was striving to...
[December 29, 1999, 11:55]
Open Text incorporates IM
News Open Text and other leading content management companies have been scrambling to expand their core products over the past few years, inspiring a wave of acquisitions. Livelink Instant Messenger, set for release on Monday, will work with Livelink...
[March 11, 2004, 11:25]
New decryption code underscores DVD security weakness
News Known as the Content Scrambling System, or CSS, the encryption protecting DVD content acted as a digital defence, protecting what movie studios consider to be near-perfect copies of their films. A year and a half ago, several researchers broke the...
[March 8, 2001, 10:19]
Hollywood's war on open source
News DeCSS and the Content Scrambling System (CSS) are at the kernel of much of the legal brouhaha. Pavlovich is working on LIVID, a video and DVD development project for the Linux operating system. Among his plans: to make a voice-activated system that...
[February 28, 2000, 9:05]
DVD encryption break is a good thing
News Each DVD is encrypted with something called Content Scrambling System (CCS). It serves no one's interests for the entertainment industry to put their faith in a bad security system. You can distribute encrypted content, but in order for it to be...
[November 12, 1999, 9:52]
Arguments presented in DVD cracking case
News California's high court is considering whether a ban on the posting of the code, which cracks the content-scrambling system designed to protect DVD movies, violates free speech. During Thursday's hearing, DVD CCA attorney Robert Sugarman told the...
[May 30, 2003, 8:05]
Torvalds lambastes DVD lawsuits
News The program, known as DeCSS, circumvents the Content Scrambling System, which is intended to block unauthorised players from playing DVDs. The movie and computer industry have labeled the programming initiative as pirates attempting to -- and...
[February 2, 2000, 17:04]
DVD technology explained
News The somewhat bizarre Content Scrambling System (CSS) -- also known as 'regional coding' -- was born. The studios challenged the DVD Forum -- responsible for DVD standards -- to create a system that protects their investment in new films.
[May 14, 1999, 16:11]
Stop wearing our DVD code!
News Each of the defendants posted the code for a program known as DeCSS, a program that breaks the content scrambling system on digital video discs. Defendants' posting of the proprietary information licensed by DVD CCA on their Web sites has caused...
[August 2, 2000, 11:02]
A Year Ago: DVD technology explained
News The somewhat bizarre Content Scrambling System (CSS) -- also known as 'regional coding' -- was born. The studios challenged the DVD Forum -- responsible for DVD standards -- to create a system that protects their investment in new films.
[May 15, 2000, 7:01]
Linux expert blasts movie industry over DVD
News The program, known as DeCSS, circumvents the Content Scrambling System (CSS), which blocks unauthorised players from playing DVDs. Really they need to find a better copy protection system," he says. Internationally renowned Linux expert and kernel...
[February 3, 2000, 15:50]
Studios race to choke DVD copying
News Collectively they created the standard called Content Scrambling System (CSS), which encrypts the content on DVDs so it can only be viewed on licensed players such as those sold at Circuit City or Wal-Mart.
[February 4, 2002, 15:25]
Judge rules DVD-copying program is illegal
News Most Hollywood DVDs are protected with a technology called Content Scrambling System, or CSS, which encrypts the content on the discs so that they can only be read by devices with authorised "keys" to unlock the data.
[February 23, 2004, 7:50]
Friday
Blog This was back in the time of analogue, where the scrambling you could do was somewhat limited by the parameters of the TV broadcast system. Imagine if porn sites had their content rendered with fig leaves over the dodgy bits, or ranting reactionary...
[February 14, 2003, 17:03]
Apple, Compaq adding recordable DVD drives
News Both companies are scrambling to offer the ultimate in amateur moviemaking: the capability to record movies onto DVDs via a computer. That system ships in March. Apple's iMovie 2 lets consumers transfer content from a digital camcorder for editing...
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
Apple puts desktop search under the Spotlight
News Companies large and small are scrambling to release software that can quickly scour a user's hard drive. With search technology in the spotlight, Apple is making better ways to find desktop files the cornerstone of its next version of the Mac OS X...
[November 11, 2004, 8:42]
RealNetworks files antitrust motion against MPAA
News The witnesses) unambiguously confirmed the Studios' position that the (Content Scrambling System) Licence Agreement (which is needed to legally make copies of DVDs) resulted from a joint agreement among the Studios to prohibit all copies of DVD...
[May 14, 2009, 11:27]
Hackers' DVD call to arms
News DeCSS, circumvents the Content Scrambling System embedded in DVD discs that block unauthorised players from playing certain DVDs. Hollywood's much publicised efforts to clamp down on software that cracks DVD encryption codes, is being met head-on...
[February 3, 2000, 14:39]
