Incompatibility Slowing Growth of Digital Music
This is not necessarily news, but a good overview of the biggest issue holding back the growth of digital music market. Incompatibility, wit… Read more »
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Microsoft’s Upcoming Vista Leans Towards Hollywood DRM Demands
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Macrovision, the DRM and content protection tech company, has reported a 31 percent drop in Q2 profits as amortization costs and a higher ta… Read more »
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ArtistDirect Purchases MediaDefender For $42.5 Million
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Next Gen P2P Could Be Tougher Opponent For Hollywood & The RIAA
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Earnings: Acacia’s Patent Loot
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Macrovision Buys DRM Rival Trymedia For $34 Million
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Macrovision, the Santa Clara, CA-based copyright-protection and DRM giant, has bought out its much smaller rival Trymedia, for $34 million i… Read more »
Patents In Digital Media
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Microsoft’s OPM TO PAre Down Premium Content On Incompatible Monitors?
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Analyst: Apple Market Share Is A Negative For Industry
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Patent Holder Forgent Sues 15 Companies Over Playback During Video Recording
Forgent Networks is suing 15 companies — a who’s who of DVR providers — on the grounds that they are infringing on U.S. Patent 6,285,746… Read more »
More on P2P Post-Grokster: The Push For Legitimacy
By Rafat Ali
All too often, P2P and file-sharing are used as synonyms for illegal activity when each can be used in myriad legitimate — and legal — way… Read more »
Microsoft’s New Digital Media Personalization Patent
I wouldn’t read too much into it right now, but keep an eye out for it…A patent granted to Microsoft this week hints at the invention of n… Read more »
Dell, Napster Will Market Music Service To Colleges
By Rafat Ali
As we mentioned yesterday, the Grokster ruling may make colleges and universities more vulnerable to legal repercussions for illegal file sh… Read more »
Place-shifting TV Could Raise New Copyright Concerns
By Rafat Ali
Now that SlingBox has hit retail, let the copyright/DRM questions begin. Sling Media’s first-to-market hardware solution is getting most of… Read more »
Economist Calls For Copyright Term Cuts
The Economist, writing on the MGM-Grokster case, calls for shortening of copyright terms for media companies. In America, the length of copy… Read more »
Higher Education Looks For Answers Post-Grokster
By Rafat Ali
Colleges and universities are still trying to figure out what kind of effect the Grokster ruling should or will have on campus file-sharing.… Read more »
Online Copyright Vendor Valeo IP To Close Down
Update: read below: Valeo IP, a reprint and online copyright protection company, (they were a sponsor on our site until May) is closing down… Read more »
The Online World Post-Grokster
By Rafat Ali
Seventy-two hours into the post-Grokster era and the actual ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision have yet to be determined. Cons… Read more »
Loss for Grokster, Not P2P
By Rafat Ali
Parse the ruling, goes this school of though, and you’ll see a decision against Grokster and services that intentionally flaunt the rules bu… Read more »
Our Coverage: Grokster vs MGM, Brand X Case
Staci’s all over the two major Supereme Court rulings today. The MGM vs Grokster and Brand X cases. Our coverage:
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Copyright Protection Biz A Sleeping Giant
A new research study shows that the DRM industry will grow from $600 million worldwide in 2004 to $1.9 billion in 2009. Leading the way will… Read more »
European Download Patent Revoked
A UK patents court has ruled that the European “Freeny” patent, which covers the downloading and recording of information such as music, new… Read more »
Copy-Protected CDs Could Be Good Business For Download Services
By Rafat Ali
A good piece in the Mercury News, with Dawn C. Chmielewski covering a lot of ground about CD DRM efforts. The labels are going after “casual… Read more »
Rush Blames Copyright Law for Lack Of Music, Parodies On Podcasts
By Rafat Ali
We’re into week two of the Rush Limbaugh podcast and Rush is still trying to explain to irked fans why the subscription podcast version lack… Read more »
Analyst: 23 Million European Households Will Share Rich Media By 2009
By Rafat Ali
Datamonitor predicts the spread of rich-media use to 23 million European households by 2009, based on the idea that “DRM in its most complet… Read more »
But Will Apple, Intel Pairing Change Hollywood?
By Rafat Ali
Apple’s reported switch to Intel from IBM for some of its models — an announcement is expected Monday — could change the entertainment con… Read more »
SafeNet Buys DRM Firm For $20 Million
SafeNet, seeking to grow its copyrights management business from just info security, plans to acquire MediaSentry for $20 million in cash an… Read more »
AdMission Granted Far-Reaching Patent On Uploaded Media
AdMission Corp., a provider of rich-media processing technology and directional advertising platforms, has been granted a patent for technol… Read more »
Intel’s New Pentium D Equipped with DRM Capability
Intel will be embedding DRM within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chip set, according to this story. The n… Read more »
Speaking Of Piracy, Usenet — Yes, Usenet — Could Rule
By Rafat Ali
A new file format helps Usenet outperform p2p for downloading while the act of downloading versus sharing may provide some legal and technic… Read more »
BitTorrent’s Bram Cohen Preparing To Launch Ad-Supported Search Engine
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BitTorrent’s first major commercial product will be an ad-supported search engine for media and files available for BitTorrent download. Acc… Read more »
Campaigning At Cannes
By Rafat Ali
: Usually, most of the campaigning at Cannes Film Festival is for awards but actor/producer Morgan Freeman, his Revalations Entertainment pa… Read more »
New BitTorrent Beta Makes Transferring Large Media Files Easier
By Rafat Ali
That’s something most entertainment execs don’t want to hear; I say most because I think some understand the value or potential value of a s… Read more »
Draconian Comes To Mind, So Does Overkill
By Rafat Ali
And lots of other words the more I read about this new idea of combining RFID tags with biometrics to preserve the sanctity of a DVD or othe… Read more »
Call For A Consumer DRM Bill Of Rights
By Rafat Ali
The rollout of more attractive media services limited to specific DRMs, devices, etc. could be spuring more demand for consumer rights when… Read more »
Amazon Patents Method Of Sharing Information Between Web Pages
By Rafat Ali
Not a clue what this means or what kind of mischief it might allow Amazon to make but Jeff Bezos and Ashish Gupta now have patent #6,889,250… Read more »
Earnings: Macrovision Q1 Profit Drops
Macrovision, the DRM company, reported lower Q1 profits, due to a number of extraordinary items, and issued a tepid outlook for Q2.
Net inco… Read more »
Toshiba Researches On Ultra-Secure Online Video
Voice and video files streamed over the net could be made untappable and ultra-secure in the next few years, thanks to a breakthrough by Tos… Read more »
France Bans Copy Protection For DVDs
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