Digital Copying
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Countering high-tech counterfeiters
Insight Digital tech is making it ever easier to print fake currency. Robert Schafrik led a group seeking answers.
Tags: Business security, Security
Michael Jackson rocks the copy-protection world
News Sony has used a copy-protection measure on Michael Jackson's CD to prevent people from making digital copies.
Tripping the rippers
News Anti-piracy features on CDs promise to dramatically alter the online music landscape, potentially handing Microsoft a potent weapon against MP3 and other rivals of its Windows Media format.
Scholars living in glasshouses
Blogs This is not about Alice in Wonderland but about a Singapore government scholar by the name of Eng Kai Er. It seems Eng, ...
Coalition to put watermark on film, video
News NEC, Pioneer, Philips Electronics and four other companies will jointly work to develop a system for preventing unauthorized digital copying of films and videos.
Japanese label protects its CDs
News Israeli security company Midbar Tech is releasing 1 million copy-protected CDs in Japan as part of an aggressive push by record labels to curtail digital piracy.
Singapore BCM Standard SS540: TR19 with a facelift
Blogs In July 2008, I wrote that Technical Reference 19 (TR 19:2005), Singapore's proposed international standard for business...
US Justice Dept: Google's book settlement needs rewrite
News Concerns about Google's settlement with book authors are valid, the Department of Justice said in a filing with the court overseeing the settlement. But things could change.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, New York, antitrust, Computer & Communications Industry Association, copyright law, U.S. District Court, agreement
September 9, 2009, could be a Beatles perfect storm
News For the first time, the Beatles' entire catalog will be released, in stereo, in one fully digitally re-mastered collection. Will an iTunes announcement happen the same day?
Tags: Gamer, Game players, Games, Apple Inc., EMI Group Plc., Apple iTunes, DVD, entertainment, Steve Jobs, Games
Who has the right to control your PC?
Insight Sony "rootkit" CD debacle spotlights broader clash over rights to control the way computers function.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security
Lawsuit targets copy-protected CDs
News A California woman files a lawsuit against an independent record label that embedded technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer.
What to expect from the RealDVD decision
News Judge is known for delivering relatively speedy decisions. But, even if Real loses in this preceding, company could still prevail at trial. We have a long way to go yet.
Tags: Lawsuits, Piracy, Video, Marilyn Hall Patel, Backup, Napster Inc., attorney, RealDVD, Real, Ben Sheffner
Adobe, others slip anticounterfeiting code into apps
News Adobe and other makers of image-manipulation programs have, at the behest of a little-known group of national banks, inserted secret technology into their programs to foil counterfeiting, the companies acknowledged this week.
Tags: Business applications, Financial
Microsoft's Live Search scraps book digitization project
News According to company blog, book search efforts are being disbanded and existing book search results will show up in regular searches rather than a separate section.
Tags: Search, IT project management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Google Inc., Book Digitization, Search Engine, Advertisement, Search Result, Books
Europeans move closer to Internet copyright law
News An important committee within the European Commission (EC) has put finishing touches on landmark electronic copyright legislation, clearing the way for a full commission vote sometime next week, European Union officials confirmed on Monday.
