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Piracy-Free Video Distribution With Microsoft Windows Media Technologies
White Papers The challenge was how: DVDs, video CDs and tapes would require an expensive sales channel and also pose piracy problems; streaming video would exclude millions of dial-up customers. Now, Shigram is distributing videos around the world at less than...
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
Turning The Tide: Why New Strategies Are Urgently Needed To Counter The Surge In Online Video Piracy
White Papers Now that millions of ordinary, non-geeky families are routinely downloading TV shows and movies without a second thought, digital piracy has clearly gone mainstream. These people don't see themselves as criminals.
[October 18, 2006, 1:00]
Singapore Cracks Down On Cartoon Piracy
News A new industry association will be launched next week to curb video compact disc (VCD ) piracy -- but mainly of a single genre of movie. Preliminary details suggest that the new body -- the Anti-Video Piracy Association (AVPA) -- will focus on...
[July 28, 2003, 10:10]
Game Companies Blast Pirates In New Case
News In a major assault on game-software piracy, six video-game companies and an industry trade group have filed a federal racketeering lawsuit here against several alleged rings of software pirates. Such anti-piracy efforts are becoming increasingly...
[August 16, 1999, 16:25]
Analysis: Experts Agree Napster Cannot Be Stopped, Part II
News Although The British Video Association's (BVA) director general, Lavinia Carey, admits piracy has always been a concern for the film industry, she is aware of what's coming. The BVA claims that both the EU and the government are dragging their feet...
[March 24, 2000, 12:30]
The De-Napsterisation Of Online Video
News Couple that with the popularity of TiVo digital video recorders and even software for recording video on the PC, as well as easy-to-rip DVDs, and the technology is there for a vast amount of video piracy.
[March 14, 2006, 14:50]
DivX Plots Course To Block Pirates
News DivXNetworks created the DivX format, a video-compression technology that has long been associated with movie piracy. Both DivXNetworks and Fraunhofer have been on the other side of the digital piracy debate.
[April 5, 2002, 10:49]
Movielink: Bring On The Experts
News The service, which will sell downloads from a library of new and classic films over the Internet, has been slow to start as Hollywood struggles with new distribution models and the threat of Internet piracy.
[July 11, 2002, 8:29]
Think Napster -- Only For Movies
News Enter DivX, which came into use in the video piracy arena sometime in February. Already, Jacobson said, traditional forms of piracy cost the industry $2.5 billion. It has Hollywood, which is already on its heels in the war against piracy, sticking...
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Malaysian Price Controls May Flout WTO
News Neither Microsoft nor the BSA is in favour of the Malaysia's plan to use price controls to stem piracy. By reducing the price of the discs, the government hope to curb the piracy for which the country has received criticism from copyright...
[July 15, 2003, 10:27]
Maplin Drops Copying Devices
News Maplin said the move was a response to the controversial European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD), a far-reaching modification of European anti-piracy law implemented in the UK last October. The EUCD is intended to aid copyright holders in...
[February 9, 2004, 13:05]
MovieLink Expected To Use MPEG-4
News A lack of consumer-ready Internet services may have contributed to what some now describe as an entrenched culture of online music piracy. For example, it already owns the rights to the film catalogue of five of Hollywood's biggest studios, bucking...
[April 9, 2002, 11:15]
New Technology To Block Camcorder Pirates
News The movie industry already blames such techniques for rampant piracy of first-run films, which frequently appear in video on the streets following preview screenings and premieres, although the quality is usually low.
[October 10, 2002, 16:41]
Hollywood Shuts Down Video-on-demand Site
News It was a blatant pirate site," said Mark Litvack, vice president and director of worldwide legal affairs for anti-piracy for the MPA. We worked with the ISP in the Netherlands, who did what the overwhelming majority of ISPs do, and prevented piracy...
[June 7, 2002, 8:44]
Studios Sue Defunct $1 Movie Site
News The cat-and-mouse saga of Film88 provides a daunting window into the difficulties faced by movie studios, record labels and other copyright owners as Internet piracy takes on an increasingly international flavour.
[July 11, 2002, 7:38]
Making 1GB Downloads Easier To Swallow
News The company also can disable files that contain pirated copyright material and can kick off repeat offenders of piracy laws. The company doesn't actively look for potential piracy, but removes files when notified.
[June 2, 2006, 15:15]
Microsoft Unveils Windows Media 9
News Piracy, he said, reminded him of the early days of the PC -- when much of the commercial software was pirated. Gates noted that piracy remains a major hurdle in getting Hollywood to embrace digitisation of its content.
[September 5, 2002, 8:55]
Mail Room
News If the music industry is worried about piracy, this won't stop them. I am not advocating that piracy is good, its just that they are going about protecting it wrong! If this law suit wins, it will strike a mighty blow to the games and video...
[April 22, 1999, 7:54]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News A few months ago, there was a major software piracy seminar in Hong Kong's conference centre and as a result someone important decreed that there'd be a clean-up. Piracy was an issue, for a while, in the Territory.
[March 8, 1997, 7:00]
Video Game Makers Sue Yahoo!
News Collectively, game publishers say they lose $3bn (£1.9bn) a year to game piracy, either on the Internet or through fake games sold at retail. Three big video-game publishers sued Yahoo! for allegedly allowing the sale of counterfeit video games on...
[March 29, 2000, 13:25]
