According to Nikkei Net, Japan, Sony is planning on ditching copy protected CDs completely come November. While copy protected CDs just slowed things down a bit for music pirates, Sony, giving up on the cause was unexpected.
Read the a raw translation of the article, after the jump.
The FCC has approved the DVD+RW Alliance’s preferred copy-protection system, VCPS (Video Content Protection System). VCPS will use the ‘Broadcast Flag’ to limit the number of times a digital television show recorded onto a recordable DVD can be duplicated.
VCPS was developed by HP and Philips under the codename ‘Vidi’. Both are DVD+RW Alliance members. […]
Professor Jeevan Jaisingh of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has written a paper on how using different DRM technologies, can make actually purchasing music a hassle. For example - a compact disc in which you have to perform multiple steps to decrypt and rip - why go through all that work? […]
Though we do not agree with any facet of the DMCA, if it is going to be the letter of the law, than large corporations should be treated just as you or I would in this situation. In what could be a last ditch attempt to gain some ground in the online music business […]
Seems like some major movie companies are gearing up to release movies in an unconventional (non-DVD) form:
Eight major high-technology companies, consumer electronics makers and movie studios announced a system on Wednesday for licensing and distributing movies and other content in the United States that has been produced with the latest digital media technology.
The collaboration among […]
We’re not really sure who these people are that are actually physically purchasing CDs, but News.com has an intersting article on what the future holds for DRM’d CDs. It seems that the initial round of DRM’d CDs have taken consumers by surprise - it is not like the Beastie Boys are out there marketing […]
PVRblog has some interesting thoughts on the Broadcast Flag which will soon take away our freedom to record and transfer television shows from one device to another. It is really too bad that the vast majority of the US population has no clue that this law is set to go into effect in 2005. […]
The US is trying to extradite an Australian who broke DRM systems to stand trial in America. US justice agencies allege that Griffiths, whose online name was BanDido, was the ringleader of an internet group called DrinkOrDie (DOD). Its members played a global game of one-upmanship with manufacturers, cracking security codes and reproducing software, […]
Reuters UK has taken a look into the world of legal music downloads and the entourage of acronyms that consumers may want to familiarize themselves with, before choosing a provider or format. The article covers everything from Sony’s ATRAC to the AAC codec used in iTunes.
From the article:
“In the age of instantaneous Internet […]
“NuVision has begun selling the Constitution as a mini e-book on Amazon for $2.99 in Microsoft Reader and Adobe Reader formats. Now here’s the bizarre thing: It’s encrypted and you can print it only twice a year.”
“You’ll violate the Digiital Millennium Copyright Act if you print NuVisions’s Constituion more often than that. So says Wendy Seltzer, an EFF lawyer.”
