New technology to help squelch music piracy
News Through a series of data-scrambling and identification schemes, the CPRM could prevent protected songs or movies from being copied using devices containing the technology. Waiting in the wings to take advantage of the standards body's proposal is a...
[December 28, 2000, 11:16]
Hardware safe from copy protection
News The technology would stop protected content from being transferred to a drive with CPRM built in. However, because the technical standards it uses are designed for hard drives, many in the technology community believed that CPRM could be used to...
[April 3, 2001, 10:53]
IBM pulls digital tagging plan
News The controversial plan, known as Content Protection for Removable Media (CPRM), had been proposed by 4C, a group of four consumer-technology giants: IBM, Intel, Toshiba and Matsushita. Emails also called for a boycott of any new standard for hard...
[February 23, 2001, 11:30]
Antipiracy battle moves to hardware Pt II
News The group has created a technology called CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) that would block certain types of files from being transferred to portable devices such as Zip drives, or microdrives, or the flash memory cards used in MP3...
[March 23, 2001, 14:09]
Porto Media Speeds Time to Market With Standards-Based Solution Enhanced by IBM
White Papers Working with Porto Media, IBM proposed enhancements to the CPRM standard to the 4C group to allow the implementation of flexible usage rules. Porto Media, a new media service provider and development company in Ireland, shaved years off product...
[March 17, 2007, 0:00]
