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Comdex Spring: Copyright protection for digital music
News Although the player is an early prototype, it's a good example of what is being developed to playback digital media. The small player is designed to bypass the main objections to MP3 -- copyright protection.
[April 22, 1999, 6:48]
Hackers bypass Microsoft copy protection
News Hackers in Hong Kong are routinely breaking Microsoft's digital media copyright protection system and helping themselves to broadband encrypted content, including games, films and music videos, according to a report in the South China Morning Post...
[October 30, 2001, 16:47]
Forum to target global digital standards
News A bevy of digital-media experts, led by the founder of the group that created the widespread MPEG set of media standards, launched an international forum on Tuesday that's aimed at standardising digital media and copy protection technologies.
[October 1, 2003, 9:55]
Digital media group makes stand on piracy
News Frustrated by the lack of a copy-protection standard that might help the digital content business reach the mainstream, a high-profile digital media group is taking matters into its own hands. The group's announcement marks an end run around...
[October 3, 2003, 11:20]
AOL wants to lock up its CDs
News AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy protection to CDs, underscoring the company's desire to limit unsanctioned digital distribution of its musical works. AOL Time Warner's foray into CD copy protection would mark its biggest step yet...
[March 13, 2002, 10:46]
Big Blue builds a corporate copy lock
News Protection of music is not the end of protection of content," said Paul Rettig, director of digital media development at IBM. IBM said there are four steps to using the new software: attaching the digital protection to the file, securely hosting...
[April 8, 2002, 9:06]
RealNetworks leaps into anti-piracy fray
News The Seattle-based software company is unveiling Helix DRM, digital rights management technology designed to be format-agnostic protection for the delivery of content to PCs, home appliances and mobile devices.
[January 9, 2003, 8:36]
Microsoft coughs up to settle another legal saga
News Microsoft is clearly very interested in expanding its digital rights protection capabilities, as they're building it into almost every new product they roll out," he said. The deal opens the door for Microsoft to expand the array of antipiracy...
[April 13, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft patches two DRM holes
News The Japanese hack emerged several weeks ago, when programmers on a public online bulletin board were found to be discussing ways to strip the copy protection off Windows Media files. The process exploited a feature of the Media Player content...
[February 17, 2005, 8:55]
Microsoft files lawsuit over source code theft
News Indeed, the company's Windows Media copy-protection technology was designed from the start to support swift updates that would address inevitable cracks. The Zune service and device will use their own flavour of digital rights management, and this...
[September 27, 2006, 8:40]
Intel and Sony push for home content-sharing standard
News The Digital Transmission Content Protection over IP (Internet Protocol) specification is aimed at balancing the interests of consumers, who recoil against restrictions placed on how and where they can use digital content, and copyright owners, who...
[September 16, 2003, 11:25]
New PCs restrict copying
News Meta Group analyst Steve Kleynahans said that Microsoft made the decision to put in the copy protection fairly far along in the development of Windows XP Media Center Edition. See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on DVD-Ram, DVD-RW...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
Copy protection could be built into hardware
News The 4C Entity, made up of Intel, IBM, Toshiba and Matsushita Electric, has created technology called Content Protection for Recordable Media that would add a piracy-blocking mechanism directly into data storage drives.
[March 25, 2002, 10:11]
Hardware safe from copy protection
News The group, known as the 4C Entity, had created technology it called Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) which would add a piracy-blocking mechanism directly into hardware drives. The vote will not prevent the 4C group from continuing to...
[April 3, 2001, 10:53]
Michael Jackson rocks the copy-protection world
News They have already shown that they are quite willing to sacrifice the purity of audio quality, and even the reliability of CD media, in order to install copy-protection mechanisms. The copy-protection measure is aimed to prevent people from ripping...
[September 25, 2001, 10:15]
PhotoRescue Wizard
Downloads PhotoRescue is an advanced data-recovery solution for digital photography media. Works with all the types of media used in digital camera (SD Cards, CF Cards, Memeory Sticks, etc.etc. No copy protection: no unfriendly copy protection scheme or...
[November 8, 2009, 21:31]
Treaty casts shadow on public domain
News The treaty -- which was proposed by the Bush administration and is backed by Yahoo, the Digital Media Association and other US Webcasters -- generally seeks to extend to Webcasters the same level of international intellectual property protection...
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
Streaming media group closes in on MPEG-4 copy protection
News See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on copy protection, piracy, DVD recording and zoning. Aiming to close a long-standing gap in digital rights management for MPEG-4, a streaming media consortium is seeking comments on an encryption...
[April 1, 2003, 7:39]
DeCSS programmer turns attention to iTunes
News In its current form, it requires several complicated steps to create a working program from source code, and it doesn't create a working song file that can be immediately or simply played from a digital music program like Winamp or Microsoft's...
[November 25, 2003, 8:35]
New CDs designed to end 'ripping'
News In his discussion of how the various types of CD protection work, McFadden also takes note of a fear that is beginning to ripple through free-speech and computer-engineering circles: Creating tools to evade copy-protection measures, or even...
[September 28, 2001, 14:25]
