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RSS video piracyCopy Protection for DVD Video
White Paper The prospect of consumer digital versatile disk (DVD) recorders highlights the challenge of protecting copyrighted video content from piracy. We describe the copy-protection system currently under consideration for DVD. [24 Feb 2004]
Independent Film Producer Uses Microsoft Windows Media to Develop an Advanced E-Commerce Application for Secure Internet Film Distribution and Sales
White Paper It also needed to provide its customers with the highest quality digital images possible while safeguarding against piracy. It let CinemaNow focus on selling its products rather than on worrying about licensing issues or piracy [24 Feb 2004]
Sun Open Net Environment In The Media And Entertainment Industry
White Paper The industry is facing both opportunities and threats from industry consolidation, peer-topeer file sharing, and piracy of music and movies. Piracy and copyright issues have raised the industry’s awareness of digital asset control and rights. [24 Feb 2004]
Future of file-swapping to be decided in court
News This is not about piracy, but about who can control technological innovation," Streamcast Networks Chief Executive Officer Michael Weiss said. In Napster's case, the recording industry sent 12,000 notices that piracy was taking place on the network... [03 Feb 2004]
Movie downloads on the way from AOL
News It will be charged with studying the online habits of college students as it relates to films and piracy. Internet companies are aiming to fuel demand for subscription video services, a market expected to grow from about $991m in 2003 to more than... [21 Jan 2004]
Microsoft pulls out the stops for Media Center upgrade launch
News Via Microsoft's technology, the threat of piracy could become more real to content owners. Addressing an audience of about 60 at the Wyndham Bel Age hotel in West Hollywood - roughly two miles away from the 10th annual Digital Hollywood conference... [01 Oct 2003]
Will CDs go the way of vinyl... and the Dodo?
News The survey also shows that the music industry's plan to sue individuals for online piracy through software such as Kazaa may pay off. Forrester Research has predicted a steep fall in CD sales, as audio and video file sharing over the internet... [03 Sep 2003]
RIAA and film studios fight file-swapping ruling
News The brief, submitted by copyright holders ranging from Major League Baseball to the Screen Actors Guild, said: "The district court's misapplication of law, if permitted to stand, will create loopholes in the law.that will frustrate efforts to... [27 Aug 2003]
Movie industry taskforce to deal with DVD pirates
News The anti-piracy body will be responsible for assessing the extent of DVD and video counterfeiting and finding ways to tackle it. The British film industry and the government have decided to set up a new body charged with tackling movie piracy, it... [18 Aug 2003]
Organised crime gets heavy with copied software
News It's not just Bilal Khan, sentenced recently for selling counterfeit software, who wants to make a quick buck from software piracy. Copied CDs, DVDs, games and software are all being used to line the pockets of major criminal gangs, according to a... [11 Jul 2003]
The Ovum View: DRM - protecting content and revenues
Comment Content providers claim to have suffered significant losses from online piracy. Protect operator revenues from sources from piracy Evolution to the next phase, that of rich media incorporating music and video downloads, depends on a number of... [10 Jul 2003]
Price-cuts 'won't stop piracy'
News Price cuts are not the way to curb software piracy, says a senior executive from anti-piracy group the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The BSA believes that the best way to combat software piracy is to effect long-term change by continuously... [03 Jul 2003]
€120m software piracy ring shut down
News One of the largest internet piracy rings in the world has been shut down in a police operation which resulted in the arrest of 181 people. Beth Scott, vice president of EMEA at the Business Software Alliance, said: "This case proves the very real... [16 Jun 2003]
Opera powers broadband TV decoder
News The company said media providers are particularly concerned to ensure that their content is protected from piracy before they release it on an IP network. The small fanless device, about the size and shape of a home smoke detector, is designed to... [28 Mar 2003]
Hollywood and software firms target individual pirates
News The MPAA's charges are part of the group's Tactics for Auction Piracy (TAP) initiative, a response to what the MPAA estimates was a near doubling last year in the number of auction sales devoted to pirated films. [28 Feb 2003]
