Copyright Protection
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Time lawyers got to grips with encryption
Insight perspective Encryption is playing an increasingly important role, but in law its status is poorly defined. It's high time that changed, says U.K. legal expert.
Tags: Security Management, Authentication and encryption, Legal, Encryption, Copyright Protection, Computer, blog team, games console, Chameleon, payment
S'pore tackles anime pirates
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.
Sony halts production of 'rootkit' CDs
News Decision to suspend manufacture of music CDs with the copy-protection tool comes after viruses exploited the technology.
Tags: Data security, Security
Video piracy's Olympic showdown
News Beijing is finally tackling video piracy as China wants to prove it can protect the lucrative broadcasting rights for the Summer Games.
Tags: Piracy, Video, Web sites, Piracy, Copyright Protection, intellectual property, software, International Olympic Committee, NBC, China
In remembrance: DRMs
Blogs Last week, I was at a WIPO-organized forum on copyright and related rights in Singapore. Several persons spoke about...
Europe urged to hasten book digitization
News Europe could pull ahead of Google in the digitization of books as long as it acts swiftly, information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has said.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Digital rights management (DRM), Commission, Google Inc., Books Digitization, European Commission, Web 2.0, Copyright Protection, Europe
Utopic world of free-for-all content
Blogs Hi, my name is Eileen Yu, and I'm a Barry Manilow fan. All right, there, I've said it. I'm a huge, big, out-of-this-...
Sony, Victor to distribute music jointly over Net
News Sony Corp and Victor Co of Japan, or JVC, will jointly distribute music over the Internet by yearend.
Tech giants pan anti-piracy mandate
News Industry heavyweights are trying to kill a Hollywood-backed plan heading for Congress that would require anti-piracy protections in PCs, CD players and other devices.
Copyright down under? Yeah, right
News Almost nine out of ten Australians would not purchase a PC equipped with a government-mandated copyright protection device, a survey has found.
Belgium cops raid homes of file swappers
News Acting on complaints from the music industry, police have raided the homes of people who use music-sharing Web sites, looking for evidence they infringed copyright rules, the prosecutors' office said Thursday.
M'sia could be violating WTO rules: Paper
News Could Malaysia be in breach of a World Trade Organization (WTO) rule by going ahead with price controls on software and recordings?
RealNetworks teams with Sony, Universal
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Gates: Digital image firms face obstacles
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Hackers bypass Microsoft copy protection
News Chinese hackers are using a recently released cracking program to freely copy broadband encrypted content, shedding more doubts on Microsoft's plans for digital protection.
