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- Judge overturns $1.5 billion ruling against Microsoft
- Judge overturns $1.5 billion ruling against MicrosoftIts a win for everyone.Thanks Microsoft!M$ bribes again!"U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster said in a 43-page order that the jury's damages could not stand because Microsoft had not violated one of the two patents."M$ is squashing innovation by stealing valuable IP from the inventors...
- Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- FairUse4WM breaks Microsoft DRM again
- A hacker "Divine Tao" has released a newer version of FairUse4WM that appears to have ripped Windows Media DRM wide open. It is interesting to note that "Divine Tao" is an anagram of the original author of FairUse4WM going by the name of "Viodentia". This latest release posted on Doom9...
- Tags: Vista, Security, News, Microsoft, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- AACS broken - before it's patched!
- AACS, the copy-protection scheme used on HD DVD discs has been broken again. But what's different this time is that it's been broken six days before the new, updated version is released.It's SlySoft, the makers of AnyDVD, which are behind this new crack. The latest beta version of AnyDVD HD, version...
- Tags: DRM, Blu-ray, HD-DVD
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog
- This is just so wrong on so many levels. The AACS licensing authority sends a legal threat to Cory Doctorow (blogger, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing) over a blog relating to a USC undergraduate class that hes been involved in teaching:I just censored Teque5s post about the AACS processing...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Legal, Links
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Another nail in the AACS coffin
- A hacker has put another nail in the coffin of the HD encryption scheme AACS - the device key for WinDVD 8 has been found.[poll=94]A hacker going under the pseudonym of ATARI Vampire has discovered the device key for WinDVD 8 and posted their findings on the Doom9 forum. ...
- Tags: DRM, HD-DVD, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
- AACS - BUSTED!
- [Updated: Feb 13, 2007 @ 4.15 pm] Ive just found out that SlySoft have a beta version of AnyDVD HD in the pipeline. This application is able to rip HD-DVDs (but not Blu-ray discs). Details here and here. AACS took years to develop and millions of dollars to...
- Tags: In the news, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Blu-ray discs now crackable too
- The group hacking effort, lead by an anonymous programmer going by the alias "muslix64", claim to have been able to decrypt and play commercial Blu-ray media as well as HD-DVD discs.Yesterday "muslix64" made the following post of the Doom9 forum:In less that 24 hours, without any Blu-Ray equipment, but with...
- Tags: In the news, Blu-ray, Blu-ray disc, Blu-Ray Media, muslix64
- Blog posts 2007-01-20
- FairUse4WM completely breaks Windows Media DRM
- Engadget reports via link from TGDaily that a utility called FairUse4WM posted on Doom9.org has completely broken Windows Media DRM Digital Rights Management copy protection scheme and this spells big trouble for Napster and Yahoo unlimited music subscription services. The music subscription services allow you to download all the...
- Tags: WMA, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-08-29
- Tower stacking up downloads
- Tower stacking up downloadsDRM?Where's the catch?Surely there's some DRM somewhere...rootkit in the front-end software?Is it really so easy to convert their WMAs to anything else?There's a catch somewhere...The UK price had better not be £0.99...SnoozeWMA, windows-only, IE only, won't play on an iPod. Yet another waste of a corporation's money.of...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, digital-rights management, playback device, music
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
- K-Lite ends media format madness
- K-Lite ends media format madness"borking"?To bork is, as I understand it, to raise a significant number of meaningless but vaguely negative issues in order to discredit someone. Named after a Supreme Court nominee of impeccable character and qualifications who was defeated by innuendo.(Not a political question, so I'll add...
- Tags: Mplayer, codec, K-lite
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- DivX releases new, high-quality video format
- DivX releases new, high-quality video formatBig claims, little to back it up.Seen a "demo" video, wasn't impressed.DivX releases new, high-quality video formatDoes anyone know if this contains spyware? I downloaded the new version, started reading the licening, and stopped where it said it was going to send banners. ...
- Tags: Corporate communications, DivXNetworks, high-quality video
- Discussion threads 2005-06-15
- Blu-ray group gets behind Microsoft tech
- Blu-ray group gets behind Microsoft techMPEG4 on DVDI think the Japanese makers want a new disc because DVD & MPEG4 players are dominated by the Chinese. They need something new to sell.But maybe the better option for Hollywood is to make a DVD with the Hi Definition MPEG4 stream on...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital video, Digital media, DVD, VC1, Microsoft Corp., MPEG-4, codec
- Discussion threads 2004-09-01
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