Tag archive: digital rights management

Netflix is already available on Windows Phone 7, yet the app is missing from Android phones. In a blog post Friday, Greg Peters, VP of product development, said that Netflix will be coming to select Android phones in early 2011, but explained why the company can't release its movie streaming app on all Android devices. The problem comes down to DRM. “We are eager to launch on these devices and are disappointed that we haven’t been… Read More

Hackers have cracked the antipiracy code commonly used in set-top boxes, and Blu-ray and DVD players, Intel told several news outlets yesterday. Rumors flew Tuesday that the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) technology was compromised. Intel confirmed the news yesterday. Intel spokesman Tom Waldrop said the code published online “appears” to be a master key. Users can derive keys from this published master key that will work on… Read More

“The association threatened to abandon the open standard and called for new, cheaper digital rights management (DRM) systems, although this could mean fragmentation that would prove frustrating for consumers. The operators' complaints follow similar grumbling by manufacturers of mobile phones and consumer electronics, who told Reuters in late February that a $1 royalty per mobile device was too high a price just to protect… Read More

“Urged by Apple's lawyers Luxpro had taken the player out of its show cases on Friday, only to put it back in again on Saturday for the benefit of the weekend visitors to the CeBIT event. Who, moreover, did seem to show an interest in the device: The player offers besides all functions present in the genuine iPod shuffle an FM tuner, a WMA playing capability (according to the manufacturer also with digital rights management) and… Read More

“Nearly two months after promising to update its media player software to block the threat of malware infection, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday admitted that users of its Windows Media Player 9 Series remain at risk. When the first red flag was raised in early January, Microsoft made it clear that the use of rigged .wmv files to exploit the DRM (digital rights management) mechanism was not a software flaw. A week later, the… Read More

Using a plugin called Output Stacker for Winamp, you can actually record whatever is being played through your soundcard, whether its Napster, an internet radio stream or RealNetwork's Rhapsody. The recording is saved in a .WAV file which you can burn to CD and then re-rip back to your computer. The .WAV recording has to be done in real time though, and the album information will not be present. This has been common knowledge to most… Read More

Also, it fully supports PC host applications and digital rights management (DRM) to enable end-to-end integration compatibility. elio PJ offers much more than existing hard-drive and flash-memory portable players in the market. elio PJ is also more compact (73 * 113 * 18.5 mm) than traditional hard drive-based portable media devices, making it the leader in the pocket-able jukebox category. In addition, elio PJ stores up to 5,000 MP3 titles… Read More

The company's latest “digital rights management” software, code-named Janus, was released Monday. It will give songs and videos purchased through subscription services a sort of digital expiration date that works even when the data is transferred from a computer. The technology also protects the content against piracy. The goal is to make it easier for companies who want customers to rent songs or videos, rather than own… Read More

Big Blue unveiled its version of digital rights management, or DRM, the technology created to stave off digital pirates and give content publishers a tight grip on how digital music and movie files can be used.   IBM's move introduces fresh competition for Microsoft, Apple Computer, RealNetworks and Sony. Each is pursuing separate DRM strategies. The result: mostly confusion and frustration on the part of consumers. Read the… Read More

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett Packard said that it had licensed Intel's high-bandwidth digital content protection technology, which is designed to ensure that video cannot be intercepted and recorded as its travels between devices, such as between a personal computer and a TV display screen. Felice Swapp, who heads up much of HP's digital rights management work, said that the Intel technology is invisible to consumers, and… Read More

The 3GSM show is the largest 3G cellular event in the world. In 2003 there were some 26.000 attendees and 576 exhibitors. It prides itself on being a showcase for the latest thinking and technology in the cellular space. All aspects of cellular communications are represented, however the focus is on the end-user.  Royal Philips Electronics is showcasing the following products: 'Emotional Messaging' mobile handsets:… Read More

The Associated Press is reporting that The Walt Disney Co. and Microsoft Corp. have entered into an agreement to deliver digital versions of Disney's movies and TV shows to several devices. The two companies said Monday they have signed a multiyear agreement for Disney to license Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management technology, which protects digital content from being illegally copied or played. Financial terms… Read More

Philips hopes the so-called digital rights management (DRM) system being developed by Intertrust, which it jointly owns with Japan's Sony Corp., will replace a confusing array of proprietary systems. Digital music stores which have opened on the Internet this year use different DRM methods to protect songs against unlimited copying. But consumers can then only play the music on computers, CD and MP3 players which support the same DRM… Read More