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DivX Plots Course To Block Pirates
News DivXNetworks and Fraunhofer also face hurdles in creating a robust watermark technology. Under a deal announced on Wednesday, the companies said they would work together to create a digital watermark system.
[April 5, 2002, 10:49]
New Technology Hides Data Inside Music Files
News SunnComm realised that the watermark-like technology, originally licensed with the intent of helping to bolster copy protection, can also carry other data such as liner notes or pictures, executives said.
[March 21, 2003, 8:25]
SDMI Copyright Technology Easily Hacked Pt II
News But with just one song for each technology, there is no way to prove without a doubt that researchers actually broke the watermark technology. Instead, it is possible -- though unlikely -- that they only broke the watermark on a single song.
[October 24, 2000, 8:19]
Music Industry Gives MP3 The All Clear
News The new spec, which will accept all music whether it is protected with a digital "watermark" or not, puts an end to those plans. Starting around the same time, record companies are expected to start imprinting CD content with a so-called digital...
[June 29, 1999, 8:37]
SDMI Copyright Technology Easily Hacked
News In each case, the researchers analysed the song, created a special filter to erase the watermark, and then sent the song to an "oracle" -- a special program set up by the SDMI to analyse the music and notify the researchers whether the modified...
[October 24, 2000, 8:14]
Anti-piracy Bill May Hit Consumers
News Say I've got an MP3 collection and I buy a new nifty player from Microsoft that only plays watermarked content, and I forge the watermark to allow my legal MP3 collection to play," says Jessica Litman, who teaches intellectual property law at...
[July 30, 2002, 6:27]
Software Blocks Images Of Money
Talkback Gimp is opensource, so even if the developers adopt this watermark technology, you can take the source, remove the money-checking part and use it for your pleasure :) You can go to www.gimp.org and get yourself a copy of The GIMP.
[January 13, 2004, 17:22]
The IBM EServer I5 Three-in-One Benchmark
White Papers Although many benchmarks deliver valuable information about the high-watermark capabilities of server platforms that are finely-tuned to run a single application, very few benchmarks accurately represent the realistic IT environments of today's...
[July 8, 2004, 0:00]
Linux Community Snubs SDMI Hacker Challenge
News The Linux Journal is sponsoring a boycott of the Secure Digital Music Initiative hacking challenge, which starts Friday and promises to pay $10,000 (£6,100) to any hacker who strips out the watermark from a digital song.
[September 15, 2000, 7:50]
Studios Race To Choke DVD Copying
News If it was copied illegally, the movie could not be played on hardware that included the watermark-recognition technology. But essentially a watermark would insert instructions directly into the movies that would tell DVD players and recorders...
[February 4, 2002, 15:25]
Supercomputing: Small Firms Making A Big Impact
News As the watermark of commodity, off-the-shelf technology rises, the area of our differentiation also moves up. Linux Networx helps customers decide how many processors and how much memory to install, as well as what sort of interconnect technology...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
US Congress Asked To Unpick Copy Lock Laws
News Ed Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, and his co-authors were also threatened with legal action by the music industry if they published a paper describing flaws in a digital watermark system.
[October 4, 2002, 7:51]
Hollywood Heads Up Anti-piracy Charge
News But because people might not use these new kinds of devices if given a choice, new federal laws likely would be necessary to compel software and hardware manufacturers to abide by the flag or watermark.
[July 23, 2002, 8:14]
EFF Files Free Speech Lawsuit Against Record Labels
News The contest encouraged the Internet community to try to break some digital watermark protections proposed to control consumer access to digital music. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of a group of...
[June 7, 2001, 8:32]
Group Forms To Fight Digital Music Piracy
News The coalition will push music that has been authenticated with a digital signature and watermark, so that the listener will know that the copy is not pirated. Liquid Audio is donating, royalty free, the watermarking technology used to put an...
[January 25, 1999, 15:19]
IDC: PC Market On The Comeback Trail
News The total number of PCs shipped in 2002 likely will be below the high watermark of 139.9 million units in 2000, a milestone that 2003 will surpass if projections are met. The rise in shipments, IDC said, will derive in part from the growing...
[December 6, 2002, 10:18]
Music Industry Considers Rio Strategy
News Liquid Audio uses encryption to lock files and add what is in effect a digital watermark to clearly identify copyrighted music, even when the music is converted to an analogue format. Yet, beyond the endorsement, the industry organisation has done...
[November 23, 1998, 9:23]
Euro Notes May Be Radio Tagged
News Besides acting as a digital watermark, the use of radio chips could speed up routine bank processes such as counting. The ECB is deeply concerned about counterfeiting and money laundering and is said to be looking at radio tag technology.
[May 22, 2003, 8:11]
Online Music Body Favours MP3
News Watermark technology is available that record companies, distributors and any one else in the chain can deploy to track the product," said Jessop. It is likely the SDMI will "tolerate" MP3 until it can be supplanted by a more secure technology.
[May 13, 1999, 15:47]
Bmp Picture Maker
Downloads You can add text watermark which can be placed into any position of the picture. BMP Picture Maker is a software to convert many picture formats to BMP format. It supports JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF(TIFF), ICO, EXIF, WMF, BMP, EMF format etc.
[April 29, 2008, 16:48]
