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Recent Advances in Multimedia Information System Security
White Paper It reviews the latest security solutions such as Digital Rights Management (DRM), confidentiality protection, ownership protection, traitor tracing, secure multimedia distribution based on watermarking, forgery... [20 Jun 2009]
Virgin file-sharers risking suspension
News The tracks will all be DRM-free. This will involve implementing a range of different strategies to educate file-sharers about online piracy and to raise awareness of legal alternatives. Universal will... [15 Jun 2009]
Security and Streaming Media - How to Secure Your Video and Protect Your Revenue
White Paper In this session the author talks about ways to protect content with software, DRM and new techniques in video streaming like dynamic watermarking. Come learn about the vulnerabilities and the ways one can protect the... [22 Oct 2008]
Amazon to open DRM-less digital song store
News Record labels are beginning to warm up to the concept of offering music downloads without DRM, after waging war with peer-to-peer companies over distributing their copyrighted music and over piracy issues. [16 May 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Why mobile DRM must die
Comment The brave new world of DRM-free music is in its infancy but it will surely have implications for mobile music. The sun has not long set on the announcement between Apple and EMI that saw the record company's catalogue... [01 May 2007]
Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?
Comment The Apple boss wrote an open missive called 'Thoughts on Music' arguing that DRM technology in online music was neither necessary nor the deterrent to piracy it was considered to represent. Apple sold a... [11 Apr 2007]
Piracy, patchy broadband hurting online content industry
News It said efficient DRM systems to manage and protect digital content are "necessary for a secure and sustainable rollout of digital distribution", but warned a lack of interoperability or standardisation in... [29 Jan 2007]
Microsoft pays Universal for 'iPod killer' sales
News Despite this figure 60 per cent of content providers are yet to invest in digital rights Management (DRM), which could alleviate the problem. SafeNet managing director Simon Blake-Wilson said the demand for online music... [10 Nov 2006]
Leader: Apple off the DRM hook?
Leader The French parliament has approved a controversial change to the country's copyright law, called Dadvsi, which has been defanged so as not to cause much discomfort to Apple and other companies such as Microsoft and Sony that distribute... [03 Jul 2006]
Sony DRM settlement passes final legal hurdle
News The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used CDs containing what was revealed to be flawed digital rights management (DRM) software after 1 August, 2003. Doing so, she predicted, may send a message to Sony... [23 May 2006]
Apple slams French kiss of death for DRM
News Apple's dominant iPod works with songs purchased on iTunes - the dominant online media store - and with tracks that are not copy protected but it doesn't play songs that are protected by Sony's or Microsoft's digital rights management... [23 Mar 2006]
France to force Apple to open iPod DRM?
News A law currently making its way through the French parliament could see Apple's FairPlay DRM opened up. Among the changes the controversial legislation will bring in will be measures to effectively dismantle all types of... [14 Mar 2006]
New Trojan exploits Sony DRM anti-piracy tool
News Antivirus firms are reporting that masses of emails containing a Trojan that exploits Sony's digital rights management (DRM) program are circulating on the internet. The Trojan, dubbed Stinx, has been mass-mailed to UK... [10 Nov 2005]
Q&A: Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen
Comment But how come you have this piracy problem - we thought you were the DRM experts? DRM and rights management more generally with issues such as 'digital leakage' of documents is a hot area... [09 Nov 2005]
Call to scrap levies on European music downloads
News The BSA argues that the rise in online content protected by digital rights management (DRM) technology makes the need for private copy levies obsolete. But online content is increasingly DRM-protected... [13 Oct 2005]