News tagged with digital copy

HTML5 spec editor slams Google & gang's DRM bid

(PhysOrg.com) -- A draft proposal by Google, Microsoft and Netflix to introduce mechanisms for copy protection on web videos has generated strong opposition and a response that the proposal is "unethical." ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Checkmate! Researchers outsmart Intel copy protection HDCP

For over a decade, Intel's widely used copy protection HDCP has been trusted by the media industry, which carries out business in high-resolution digital video and audio content worth thousands of millions. Researchers from ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Authors Guild sues universities over online books

Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Monday, seeking to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as ...

Technology / Other

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Researchers find weakness in RSA authentication - common digital security system

The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer scientists have discovered.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal

(AP) -- The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 1

HP, Amazon to sell paperback versions of e-books

(AP) -- Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sony adopting industry standard for e-books

Sony, in a challenge to Amazon's Kindle, unveiled plans on Thursday to do away with the proprietary software on its electronic Sony Reader and convert its e-book store to an industry standard format.

Technology / Software

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Newspapers to disappear by 2040: UN agency chief

Newspapers will disappear and be replaced by digital versions by 2040, the UN intellectual property agency's chief said in an interview published on Monday.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google stops digitizing old newspapers

Google on Friday had stopped digitizing old newspapers as publishers sought to make money off story archives instead of having them hosted free online.

Technology / Internet

created May 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Sony's 'Smurfs,' 'Friends' to be UltraViolet-ready

(AP) -- Sony Corp.'s movie studio said Tuesday that "The Smurfs" and "Friends With Benefits" will be the first movies it releases on home video that will be compatible with the UltraViolet view-anywhere system.

Technology / Business

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WikiLeaks site comes under attack

(AP) -- The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new concerns ...

Technology / Internet

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Byliner, a new website for readers and writers

Print magazines may be struggling but the founders of Byliner, a new website, believe there is an audience and a business opportunity online for long-form journalism.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple's own approach to iPad e-books could confuse

(AP) -- Even as Apple's iPad will likely energize electronic reading, the new device is undermining a painstakingly constructed effort by the publishing industry to make it possible to move e-books between ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 31, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 11

Book scanning prompts review of EU copyright laws

(AP) -- The European Commission said Monday it may revise copyright law to make it easier for companies like Google Inc. to scan printed books and distribute digital copies over the Internet.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google willing to share digital books with rivals

(AP) -- Google will let other online companies sell its digital copies of out-of-print books if a class-action settlement with U.S. authors and publishers wins court approval.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1