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Macrovision to use Microsoft anti-piracy technology
News Microsoft sank its claws a little deeper into the music business on Wednesday, as copy-protection company Macrovision agreed to license the company's Windows digital rights management technology for CDs.
[April 24, 2003, 7:51]
Cannot handle Macrovision signals from DVD players
Member Review It can't handle Macrovision signals. Good image -- but not if you connect it to a DVD player! Background below. I wanted an XGA native resolution projector, that was 32DB or less, and would not cost much more than £1,500.
[March 15, 2004, 10:12]
CD-maker to sell Macrovision copy protection
Talkback OK, so Macrovision want to do this, but what about people likle me who only burn a copy onto a CDR, and store the original - incase the original becomes scratched. Do we get some kind of warranty on our CD (free replacements)?
[September 11, 2003, 10:04]
CD-maker to sell Macrovision copy protection
News Bertelsmann-owned Sonopress, one of the largest CD manufacturing concerns in the world, has agreed to use and resell Macrovision's technology for discouraging CD copying. Although several other CD pressing plants support Macrovision's technology...
[August 21, 2001, 14:55]
Webcast: Uncovering Revenue Opportunities with Simplified License Management
White Papers Check out this on-demand Webinar, "Introducing FLEXnet Operations," from Macrovision for an overview of the features and benefits of FLEXnet Operations, a license management solution that can help you maximize upgrade and renewal revenues while...
[December 5, 2006, 11:57]
Automated Solution Overhauls Tumbleweed Communications’ Software Updating Process
White Papers Download this case study from Macrovision to read about Tumbleweed Communications’ success using Macrovision’s FLEXnet Publisher Update Service Module, a Web-based service that proactively delivers software patches, updates, and other important...
[July 27, 2005, 18:07]
CD copyright protection system on the way
News US companies Macrovision and TTR Technologies have announced a partnership to develop a copy protection system to prevent the copying of optical audio media, such as CDs and DVDs. Macrovision will license the technology to music rights owners...
[December 13, 1999, 11:49]
Spy software targets employee downloads
News Technology companies Macrovision and Websense are teaming up to root out illegal MP3s, movies, games and other copyrighted material on employees' work computers. We're making the basic assumption that a high percentage of downloading is done at...
[October 10, 2002, 9:06]
Merger could spawn more copy-proof CDs
News Over the last two years, at least four companies -- Macrovision, Midbar Tech, Sony and start-up SunnComm -- have tried to persuade record labels to add various flavours of anti-copying technology onto ordinary CDs.
[November 6, 2002, 9:27]
Maplin drops copying devices
News Maplin Electronics, a retailer with 80 shops across the UK, has moved to discontinue the sale of three devices capable of circumventing Macrovision copy protection technology, the company said last week.
[February 9, 2004, 13:05]
Copy-proof CDs flood Europe
News Silicon Valley company Macrovision said on Wednesday that its anticopying technology had now been applied to more than 100 million CDs worldwide, the bulk of them released in Europe and Japan. People are getting used to the idea (in those areas...
[April 3, 2003, 10:12]
'Taster' pirated copies lure gaming fans
News A protection system from Macrovision and British games developer Codemasters ensures that pirated copies of games slowly degenerate to the point where they become unusable -- players in car games will find they can no longer steer, games involving...
[October 14, 2003, 11:20]
Software firms tweak activation after backlash
News The two-day symposium was sponsored by Macrovision, a leading supplier of tools for enabling activation, preventing copying of CDs and handling other rights management tasks. Unfortunately, I think Intuit was the proverbial pioneer that got the...
[October 7, 2003, 10:00]
DVD copier faces another lawsuit
News Previously, the company has been sued in both California and in New York by coalitions of Hollywood studios and by Macrovision, another copy-protection technology company. The company separately filed a response to Macrovision's lawsuit on Friday...
[February 16, 2004, 10:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Let's take our cub reporter Tom Espiner's experiences with EMI and Macrovision over the business of digital rights management — or digital restriction management, which is a more accurate expansion of the abbreviation.
[January 20, 2006, 17:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog These things are used to bypass a system called Macrovision that distorts video signals when you try to record them on VCRs. Well, people still copy stuff from DVD to VHS," he said, "and DVD players are supposed to read the Macrovision bit from the...
[February 13, 2004, 16:50]
Copy lock shuts out music pirates
News Such providers include Midbar rivals SunnComm, Macrovision and a handful of other companies. Last month, the media giant's Sonopress division agreed to use and resell Macrovision's technology in an attempt to discourage CD copying.
[September 5, 2001, 11:16]
IBM technology to star in Internet movie venture
News The company may be working with Macrovision, which provides technology to secure VHS and DVDs as well as IP networks, according to a spokeswoman at iVast.iVast, an MPEG-4 technology provider, is working with Macrovision to build a service that...
[September 9, 2002, 8:23]
New CDs designed to end 'ripping'
News The purpose of these releases is to test consumer satisfaction," said Macrovision president Bill Krepick. SunnComm has been working with Microsoft itself, while Macrovision says it is relying more on its label partners for access to Microsoft...
[September 28, 2001, 14:25]
Antipiracy feature shuts out customers
News Intuit's antipiracy technology was based on software from Macrovision, which is working to make the technique more palatable to consumers. Symantec's software activation is not based on Macrovision technology, Smith said, adding that the company...
[October 31, 2003, 7:25]
