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Game-copying Software Under Fire
News A group of major video game companies has sued 321 Studios -- the company best known for its now-banned DVD-copying software -- charging that its new video-game copying software is also illegal. The software company has been the subject of repeated...
[June 16, 2004, 9:35]
FTC Cracks International Web Porn Ring
News In its complaint, the FTC alleged that the group "page-jacked" 25 million legitimate Web pages by copying them in their entirety and either resubmitting them with search engines such as AltaVista and Yahoo!
[September 23, 1999, 9:29]
Copy Protection Takes Stealth Approach
News Software makers have tried all sorts of heavy-handed measures to prevent illegal copying of their programs, but an Austin, Texas-based start-up thinks stealth is better. Unlike existing copy-protection schemes, which prevent CD burners from copying...
[June 28, 2002, 12:06]
Xbox Mod Chip Delivers 'homebrew Software'
News While the main purpose for the mod chips appears to be illegal software copying, they may also be a boon to more high-minded hackers looking to add new software functions such as MP3 playback and emulators to play games written for older systems.
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
Aussie Court Backtracks On Mod Chips
News Once you legitimise home copying then everything becomes home copying," he said. Australia's Federal Court has overturned a decision it made last year legalising the use of modification chips in Sony PlayStation game consoles.
[July 31, 2003, 16:19]
Intel's Brave New Home Pt II
News The technology would allow distributors to control the use of their content by setting rules for viewing and protecting against unauthorised copying. As an example of the concept, IAL demonstrated for ZDNet News a World Cup soccer game, now in...
[July 26, 2000, 11:55]
Linux Desktop: Closer Than You Think
News Proponents of free software also cite its can't-beat price tag as well as the lax restrictions on copying. I think Linux on the desktop is a viable option," said game developer Emmett Plant, listing word processing and spreadsheets as the essential...
[August 13, 1999, 9:17]
Australian Body Calls For Mod-chip Legalisation
News The US has fair use provisions that provide some level of protection for consumers in home copying -- we do not," he said. However, the mod chips also allow gaming enthusiasts to bypass features of their game consoles that block access to pirated...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
Microsoft Offers A 'tune-up' For XP
News DRM is a technology that reduces illegal copying of video or audio files. Microsoft's DRM technology prevents copying to CDs and stops the song from playing after a set period of time, usually 30 days.
[December 13, 2001, 15:57]
Linux Must Be Slicker To Grab Desktop Space
News That's a key issue for the Spanish people -- they like to do unlicensed copying of software," he said. Soaring production costs for top-tier games make it futile to try to convince big game developers to produce Linux titles, said Jay Moore...
[April 26, 2004, 11:40]
Supreme Court Avoids Sony/Connectix Suit
News In February, the electronics giant lost its case in the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the Connectix Virtual Game Station is protected under the "fair use doctrine", which permits the copying of software to understand its...
[October 3, 2000, 10:03]
Bill Gates On Apple Security And Other Things
Blog Comment Bill has had a very bad week - his thunder has been stolen by a lot of press asking - effectively - why MS are copying Apple. The first is Microsoft believe that stealing ideas from Apple is fair game as Apple stole the ideas from Xerox.
[February 6, 2007, 11:01]
DeCSS Programmer Turns Attention To ITunes
News The Norwegian's 1999 program, called DeCSS, ignited a debate over the legality of copying DVDs that has yet to end. Johansen's latest program, which works only for the Windows version of iTunes, is just the most recent move in the ongoing game of...
[November 25, 2003, 8:35]
New Back Orifice-like Trojan Horse Found
News Once a victim is infected, a hacker can do anything to a machine that the victim can -- included erasing all files or copying all files. The Trojan horse arrives in a user's e-mail posing as a screen saver or game update, but once executed, it...
[May 28, 1999, 8:51]
Aussie Mod-chip Veto Criticised
News The issue was whether TPMs only include measures which stop copying, or whether it also includes measures which render copies useless," said Catania. Sony also pointed out the Full Court had reaffirmed that there is no right to make a backup copy...
[August 1, 2003, 12:05]
Mac Users Targeted By 'Opener' Malware
News According to Ducklin, Opener tries to spread by copying itself to any drive that is mounted to the infected computer. The existence of Unix shells -- such as Bash for which Opener is written -- and the presence of powerful networking commands opens...
[October 25, 2004, 11:20]
Xbox Linux Team Issues Antitrust Plea
News Although Xbox Linux has nothing to do with unauthorised copying, thanks to the way Microsoft have added protection logic to stop anything running on the box except software approved by them, our Linux distribution requires a mod chip," said Green.
[March 7, 2003, 13:50]
SonyBMG's Criminal Intent
Leader It counts copying a Scissor Sisters track as equal to the 'terrorism and serious crime' that justifies the DRD. One look at the Creative and Media Business Alliance's list of members gives the game away: SonyBMG.
[November 25, 2005, 13:10]
Sun To Launch Comeback Plan
News This time the anti-Microsoft angle is in digital rights management, the mechanism that controls the copying and use of proprietary data such as music or video files. Some are confident Sun is getting back its game.
[September 16, 2002, 12:22]
Record Labels Put The Brakes On CD Copy Locks
News The organisation blamed the drop on music downloading and CD copying. Anti-copying technology from Sony and Midbar each proved to be easily disarmed using only a felt-tip pen. Headlines since have not been friendly; reports have focused on cases...
[September 3, 2002, 13:28]
