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." ...
Feb 25, 2012 |
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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
Nov 28, 2011 |
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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 ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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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
Mar 03, 2010 |
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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.
Aug 21, 2009 |
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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.
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Stolen 'X-Men' flick leaps onto Internet
A stolen copy of the film "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has leapt around the Internet being downloaded from file sharing websites.
Apr 02, 2009 |
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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.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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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
Jan 31, 2010 |
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Univ. of Michigan, Google amend book scanning deal
(AP) -- The University of Michigan has amended a deal with Google Inc. to create digital copies of millions of library books and journals.
May 21, 2009 |
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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.
Oct 19, 2009 |
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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 ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Hollywood hopes an ensemble cast boosts Blu-ray
(AP) -- Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. Even people who already own Blu-ray players ...
Dec 13, 2009 |
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