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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]
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. Besides digital photo, music and movie features already available with Windows XP, the new PCs...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
Tech activists fight for anti-copying debate
News Also during the roundtable, the RIAA said that it has begun pressing for anti-copying technology in future digital radio standards. Enthusiasts of free software disrupted a Commerce Department meeting on Wednesday, insisting on their right to...
[July 18, 2002, 8:50]
New CD protection won't play on PCs
News Record labels are frantically seeking to end consumers' rampant digital copying of CDs, a practice unleashed by the MP3 format, the Internet, and file-swapping services such as Morpheus. Consumer electronics giant Philips Electronics, which owns...
[March 6, 2002, 15:56]
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. Attorneys for the software maker had argued that the law is...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
Label to identify copy-protected CDs
News The music industry is looking to copy controls to stem digital copying, which it blames for a drop in record sales. Copy protection is a logical response by the music industry to protect its product from mass copying and digital piracy," Berman said.
[September 19, 2002, 7:55]
AOL wants to lock up its CDs
News AOL Time Warner's foray into CD copy protection would mark its biggest step yet into the arena known as digital rights management (DRM) -- a broad label that covers a variety of technology aimed at preventing unauthorised copying.
[March 13, 2002, 10:46]
US judge weighs DVD copying arguments
News During the hearing, 321's attorney argued that declaring the company's products illicit would amount to "a ban on the digital printing press", because it would ban acts of copying and excerpting film that traditionally have been legal in the non...
[May 16, 2003, 7:47]
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]
Sony division to offer self-destructing movie downloads
News Many digital content providers currently use encrypted streaming to prevent users saving and copying movie files. The firm has incorporated a DRM (digital rights management) technology from software maker Japan Wave which makes copying impossible...
[May 30, 2003, 8:38]
Tosh takes on HP with print-copy-scan device
News The product is the first fruit of a new Irvine, California software research and development centre from which Toshiba is hoping to establish a bigger say in the digital printing and copying market. To be priced in the £6,000-7,000 range, the unit...
[February 3, 1997, 15:58]
Celine Dion disc could crash European PCs
News The discs are protected against digital copying using Key2Audio technology developed by the Sony DADC unit. Sony's copy-protection plans come as many record labels experiment with a variety of technologies aimed at preventing consumers from...
[April 5, 2002, 15:20]
Music industry gives MP3 the all clear
News Scheduled for some time late in 2000, Phase 2 calls for updated protection that will defeat indiscriminate copying of digital music. Starting around the same time, record companies are expected to start imprinting CD content with a so-called...
[June 29, 1999, 8:37]
Snaps, crackles and pops aim to stop CD piracy
News Rather than blocking copying altogether, the technology introduces some digital distortion into a file. But the tests also take aim at the basic consumer practice of copying CDs to a computer for personal use without ever trading the songs with...
[July 19, 2001, 14:45]
Hardware safe from copy protection
News Opponents of anti-copying technology fear that the benefits of digital technology as well as many traditional reproduction rights are being sacrificed in the blind rush to preserve corporate profits. Others say strong anti-copying technology is...
[April 3, 2001, 10:53]
Hollywood targets DVD-copying upstart
News The studios filed the claim in response to 321 Studios, which in April took the unusual step of asking a federal court to declare its copying products legitimate because they would allow people to make personal copies of DVDs they already own -- a...
[December 23, 2002, 8:51]
Internet a 'moral-free zone', warns media chief
News He also predicted that without new laws to stave off illicit copying, News Corp.s vast library of movies may never be made available in digital form. Chernin called for a broader understanding that unapproved copying is morally wrong, while...
[August 21, 2002, 15:48]
Australia may permit 'personal' music copying
News Space shifting is when digital content is recorded onto a different device than that for which it was originally assigned (for instance, purchasing a CD and copying it into an MP3 player). Music business analyst Phil Tripp has lauded the Joint...
[June 25, 2004, 10:20]
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]
Judge rules DVD-copying program is illegal
News After eight months of deliberation, a San Francisco federal judge has ruled that software company 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying products are illegal. In a ruling released on Friday, Judge Susan Illston granted Hollywood studios' request for an...
[February 23, 2004, 7:50]
