French politicians have approved an online copyright bill that will require Apple to break open the exclusive format behind its market-leading iTunes music store and iPod players.
Sharman Networks has rejected claims from the music industry that it can identify the difference between copyright infringing and legitimate file-sharing on its network, a crucial step towards the company gaining the capacity to block illegal file-sharing.
A high-tech group associated with Hollywood has dropped a long-running lawsuit against a California programmer accused of putting DVD-cracking code online, the programmer's attorneys said Thursday.
Microsoft has come a long way in understanding security, but comments made last week by its chief executive Steve Ballmer show it still has a way to go.
Plans to hard-wire copy protection into popular digital music and video devices are being shelved as the consumer-electronics industry grapples interminably with antipiracy policies, standards and consumer rights.
When you're the industry's 800-pound gorilla, what's a few billion dollars to pay for problems to disappear?
New online movie service won't work with Mac. Will Apple get left out of the digital revolution?
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
Copy protection company Macrovision is working with record labels to load their CDs with digital audio files that can be copied onto computers and MP3 players.
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