Software Tool of Pirates Gets Work in Hollywood
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Hollywood studios are going into business with one of their biggest tormentors: the peer-to-peer pioneer BitTorrent.
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Software helps recreate the past on stage in âBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.â
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The Pirate Bay directs 2m surfers to copyright-busting film and TV downloads every day. Bobbie Johnson meets the men who have enraged Hollywood.
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Percept Picture Company has thought of a novel strategy to fight film piracy by unveiling a hard-hitting
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CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos finds that software pirates are getting better at marketing and aiming for a classier clientele.
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InfoWorld - A hacker claims to have discovered a cryptographic key that can be used to circumvent copy restrictions on HD DVD and Blu-ray movies.
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Companies will offer a service that authenticates movies, music, and games.
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Invisible technology could soon point the finger toward the camcorder-wielding pirates responsible for that bootleg copy of "The Incredibles" hawked on the street or posted on the Internet.
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Startup VI Labs has beefed up CodeArmor, which protects software against intellectual property theft.
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The company's antipiracy software adds a "yellow state" for times when it just can't tell if software is genuine.Image: A 'maybe pirate'
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The makers of the technology often used to trade pirated movies, launches a website to sell film and TV-show downloads licensed from the studios. By Associated Press.
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After cracking the encryption system that protected DVDs in order to play the discs he had bought on a PC running Linux, Jon Lech Johansen has his sights set on liberating other audiovisual content from the format in which it is sold.DoubleTwist, a company he co-founded in March 2007 with Monique Farantzos, on Tuesday released beta versions of a Facebook application and a PC desktop application for unlocking and managing music and video files.Johansen achieved notoriety as &#39;DVD Jon&#39; when he ended up in court for co-writing the DeCSS software that cracked the encryption on DVDs and allowed them to play on PCs running open-source media player software on Linux. Until then, they could only be watched using authorized hardware or proprietary software because their content was encrypted using the Content Scrambling System (CSS).He followed that up by breaking a series of other DRM (digital rights management) encryption systems including FairPlay, Apple&#39;s proprietary DRM wrapper around the open AAC format music files it sells via its iTunes Store.While Apple&#39;s iPod is not the only portable device that can play AAC files -- many Nokia phones do too -- it is the only one that can play the encrypted AAC files Apple sells. There are ways to work around Apple&#39;s DRM, including burning the files to a CD and then ripping them back into the computer in another format, but they are time-consuming.DoubleTwist&#39;s tools, Twist me and doubleTwist desktop, are intended to make it easier to move music and video files, including those locked by Apple&#39;s DRM, from one device to another, or to share them with family and friends, the company said.Twist me, the Facebook application, lets users of the social network site put music and video on their profile pages to share with friends.DoubleTwist desktop runs on Windows PCs alongside Apple&#39;s iTunes, and can take legally purchased iTunes files in the DRM-protected AAC format and, on the machine authorized to play them, turn them into MP3 files that will then play almost anywhere, the company said.The desktop software also includes tools for sharing audio and video playlists and photo albums, and synchronizing them with Nokia&#39;s NSeries, Sony Ericsson&#39;s Walkman and Cybershot phones, the Sony PSP game console and the Amazon Kindle e-reader, among other devices. In addition to AAC and MP3, it handles WMA (Windows Media Audio) and WAV audio formats, and video in MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV (Windows Media Video), AVI and the 3GP format used by mobile phones.DoubleTwist&#39;s software may soon be obsolete, though. Digital music retailers are beginning to realize that DRM just irritates customers, and Apple now offers almost half the encrypted music in its iTunes Store in higher-quality versions without DRM, at the same price. Amazon.com, meanwhile, sells all its digital music in MP3 format without DRM, as do independent online music stores such as EMusic.
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Hollywood stepped up its battle against internet pirates yesterday when the Motion Picture Association of America launched a legal battle against the filesharing networks BitTorrent and eDonkey.
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They start with a single stolen file and pump out pirated games and movies by the millions. Jeff Howe from Wired magazine looks at the 'topsites' that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
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Thar she blows Spam messages exploiting the publicity surrounding the release of the latest instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise are being used to trick users into installing Trojan horse malware.â¦
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Leak casts light on controversial tactics that may have been employed by the anti-piracy company.
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.