Sunday, October 11, 2009

RealNetworks will seek permission to sell its $30 DVD-ripping software, while bigger cases head to court.View this story

Friday, September 25, 2009

Servers and clients should be safe from DRM issues; Envive plans iPhone interface.View this story

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Win 7 support for Copy Freely, coupled with Verizon FiOS's generous content protection scheme, enables Windows Media Center to stream premium content over the home network or the InternetView this story

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

In the past, you could not share CableCard content -- even non-protected content -- from a Windows Media Center PC; now you can (and skip commercials, too!)View this story

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Microsoft at CEDIA Expo 2009: Easy to add digital cable tuners (DCTs) to any Win 7 machine, fixes for switched digital video, and the ability to copy freely for tagged contentView this story

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

D&M's Escient unit did not drop the movie server on DRM grounds; standard def is just so yesterdayView this story

Monday, August 17, 2009

Some 10,000 individuals in South Korea are being sued by Japanese and U.S. studios for sharing content without authorization.View this story

What have the courts really decided on DVD copying, and what are the implications for the future? We debunk the myths about the the two lawsuits and clarify the current legal state of DVD rippingView this story

Friday, August 14, 2009

Kaleidescape points out that its servers "remain 100% licensed and legal." The high-end movie server manufacturer also says the next court proceedings "will likely take place in a year or two" or "they may never take place at all."View this story

Thursday, August 13, 2009

You know that college student who had to fork over $675,000 for music he shared on Kazaa? Evidently, the artists get none of the money and it goes instead to the "industry" as represented by the RIAA. The ruling reminded me of a song that a few CE ladies performed at a CEA Summit in 2004. It goes like this:View this story

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Appeals court overturns a two-year-old ruling that allowed Kaleidescape to manufacture movie servers that copied and stored DVDs. This ruling comes one day after an injunction was imposed on RealNetworks' RealDVD software.View this story

U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel issued a preliminary injunction that bars the manufacturing and selling of the RealDVD software that copies and stores DVDs on a hard drive. Patel is the judge who shut down Napster in 2000.View this story

Monday, August 03, 2009

Joel Tenenbaum has to pay $22,500 for each of the 30 songs he downloaded and shared on Kazaa in 2004.View this story

Friday, June 19, 2009

EFF claims the anti-piracy case, one of the last vestiges of RIAA's lawsuit frenzy, may be unconstitutional because.View this story

Friday, June 12, 2009

New DRM specs will legally allow consumers to make one copy of each Blu-ray disc they own. Supporting Blu-ray players won't hit market until first or second quarter of 2010.View this story