MediaDefender is wake-up call for entertainment sector
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Tactics used on both sides of the piracy fight continue to get nastier, but scorched-earth mindset may be self-defeating.
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Technologies that let people record satellite and Internet radio broadcasts digitally are opening a new front in the recording industry&#39;s war on music piracy.
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Symantec is warning users of the RealPlayer media software to be extra careful while surfing the Web.
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Security researchers are warning of a serious - and unfixed - security hole with the popular Winamp media player.
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Executives from Nokia and Philips published an open letter today calling for the European Commission to consider scaling back, if not eliminating, imposing levies on digital recording media and playback devices, including DVRs and MP3 players. But the alternative may be a hard sell: increased DRM.
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The UK Music Industry is sitting on &quot;a broadband timebomb&quot; and the only way to stop illegal file sharers could be via the courts, a senior industry source warned today.
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The streaming media merchant must learn to move the needle.
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YouTube, one of the world's most popular Web sites, might be headed for a crash. At least one industry watcher is predicting crippling copyright-violation litigation coming from the entertainment industry.
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Security gurus urge the industry to rethink the way it classifies malicious software.
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For a business that relies on entertaining people, the movie industry really needs to take some pages out of the video game play book.
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The Motley Fool - War has been declared. Not the conventional type with the troops, tanks, and smart bombs, but an entertainment war for the &#36;3 billion global music player business. Creative Technology (Nasdaq: CREAF - News) has decided to move in against the giant Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) in an attempt to capture a 40% market share for MP3 music players. In the three years since the iPod's launch, it has become the worldwide player of choice, claiming about 85% of the market, so to call this an uphill fight is something of an understatement.
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The film industry must embrace the net if it is to combat piracy, a leading industry figure says.
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A broad group of companies and associations covering most of the Japanese entertainment industry is calling on YouTube to be more proactive in policing its Web site for copyrighted material.
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The Motion Picture Association of America has opened a second front in its war against online sharing of movies, offering a free program that will detect the presence of peer-to-peer file-sharing software and downloaded songs or movies.
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Draconian actions from Hollywood and the recording industry have tech in its crosshairs, says Network World's Mark Gibbs. And if you think their efforts only target so-called pirates, you're just not paying attention.
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A software program that blocks ads is a two-edged sword: It stops annoyances for consumers, but it threatens to break down the business model that helps pay for Web content.
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Messages tell purported plans of MediaDefender, hired to ferret out file-sharing violations.