New US law aims to be stricter than DMCA
News Moreover, people who make "available to the public" a copyrighted work that has had its protections removed or altered could face stiff fines -- and in some cases jail time, if they removed the copy protection themselves.
[September 11, 2001, 14:05]
EMI: We don't use rootkits
News The software is difficult to remove and if removed manually could shut off access to the computer's CD player. It has been rumoured that other recording giants including EMI and the Universal Music Group use technology similar to that used by Sony...
[November 7, 2005, 9:35]
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[November 12, 2004, 12:08]
Sony rootkit farce continues
News Sony said in a statement on Friday that SunnComm had removed the uninstall program from the Web, and was in the process of contacting consumers who had downloaded it while it was available. The latest risk is from an uninstaller program distributed...
[November 21, 2005, 8:15]
Arrest fuels Adobe copyright fight
News The notice sent to Elcom on June 25 gave the company five days to remove the software from its site, but Verio removed the site the next day. While Prescott first portrayed Adobe as somewhat removed from the investigation, she later acknowledged...
[July 19, 2001, 10:13]
TomTom ships malware on sat-nav
News TomTom claims that both the host.exe and copy.exe files can safely be removed from the device with antivirus software. The company has warned the files should not be removed manually, as they are not part of the standard installed software on a...
[January 29, 2007, 12:49]
Techies wage war on copyright cartels
News Microsoft has sent legal notification to the tech-community site requesting that all such documents be removed under the auspices of the DMCA. It adds a provision to copyright law that says if you circumvent the copy protection, you are not just...
[May 19, 2000, 15:06]
Antipiracy battle moves to hardware
News Sony's Vaio Music Clip was the only music player to add early versions of the SDMI's proposals, but the technology was removed after negative reviews and slow sales. The idea of building copy-protection technology into hardware is not a new one...
[March 23, 2001, 14:07]
Smartphone 'Trojan' found to be code flaw
News But after complaints from customers, the feature was removed from the original code earlier this year. The 'Trojan' SMS dialler infecting mobile phones running pirate copies of the "Mosquitos" game is not actually a Trojan at all but rather a...
[August 12, 2004, 14:35]
Game-copying software under fire
News In February, a San Francisco federal judge agreed, and ordered the software removed from the market. Federal law makes it clear that it is illegal to manufacture, distribute, or sell devices or programs that circumvent technological protection...
[June 16, 2004, 9:35]
Sony rootkit remover on the rocks
News However, in response to concerns about the security of its uninstall software, Sony has removed the program from its Web site, and promised to release another version soon. Sony became embroiled in controversy earlier this month after the record...
[November 17, 2005, 8:40]
SDMI denies broken technologies
News To be judged "flawed", each technology would have to have its digital ID tags removed without degrading the quality of the music. It will take some time for the SDMI's six-member panel to determine whether a hacker has truly broken the copy...
[October 17, 2000, 9:45]
Adobe hacking case goes to jury
News He reminded jurors that after an eBook is run through the eBook Processor software, the page reads "protections successfully removed". In those emails, sent after Adobe had asked ElcomSoft to take down the software but before the company removed it...
[December 13, 2002, 7:56]
HP threatens researchers with DMCA
News Ahmad said that while the source code had been removed, the original post remains in the Bugtraq archives. The DMCA restricts code that "is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection" of copyrighted works.
[July 31, 2002, 12:15]
Monster.com thinks again on CV purge
News Instead, the career site has removed those seven nations from pop-up lists of countries that customers use to construct their listings. A Monster spokesman said, however, that if the company learned that a customer had expressed a desire to work in...
[April 28, 2003, 8:18]
Scary! Stephen King e-book pirated
News Unencrypted PDF versions of the novella quickly made their way onto several Web sites, most of which have since been removed. The reality is there's no such thing as an invincible copy protection system," Kawell said.
[March 30, 2000, 9:18]
Apple tells Mac users to install antivirus software
News In April, Microsoft reported a big spike — a 300 percent increase year-over-year — in the number and proportion of Trojan droppers that its Malware Protection Center detected and removed. They don't infect files and copy themselves.
[December 2, 2008, 7:28]
Sklyarov takes the stand in DMCA trial
News Frewing pointed out that after ElcomSoft's product is applied to an eBook, the statement "protections successfully removed" appear. The trial is the first major test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which...
[December 10, 2002, 10:24]
Supreme Court backs off DVD case
News See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on DVD-Ram, DVD-RW, zoning and copy protection. The DVD Copy Control Association's (DVDCCA) suit alleged violations of California's trade secret laws, and a state judge granted an injunction...
[January 6, 2003, 8:06]
