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Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app
A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...
Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw
Blog posts 2008-01-03
Senators aim to restrict Net, satellite radio recording
Senators aim to restrict Net, satellite radio recordingGood luck with that :o)And you forgot stationripper, for windows users. Oodles and oodles of free music.:o)Do SomethingHey,These people need to do something of value for the country, like resign.OK, let me understand...I can tape or otherwise record music that plays over the...
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, satellite, satellite radio, DMCA, Internet radio, music
Discussion threads 2007-01-12
Google CEO from Q2 to Q3: Partnerships promised and delivered!
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a man of his word, at least as far as his commitment to growing Google through partnerships. Schmidt extolled the power of partnerships at Googles Q2 earnings conference call in July:lets explore a little bit how the partnerships that were developing -- not just the...
Tags: partnership, Google Inc., advertisement
Blog posts 2006-10-18
Move over iTunes. Here comes the Secure Video Processor Alliance
Meet Jas Saini. He's chairman of the Secure Video Processor Alliance -- an alliance whose members are not about to take Apple's incursion into the home entertainment and content multiplexing market lying down.The battle to be your content multiplexer is on. It's a battle that most people don't...
Tags: Apple Computer Inc., content multiplexer, multiplexer, personal video recorder
Blog posts 2006-09-21
Do Public Broadcasters Get It? (Stephen Hill)
Do Public Broadcasters Get It?...............................................Final version 10.18.05.............................................. Description During the doldrums of mid-August Steve Gillmor dropped a semi-cryptic post on his ZDNet blog to the effect that he'd been working with a group of people from public broadcasting as part of something called the Public Service Publisher Initiative...
Tags: INTERNET, Podcasts, IMA, Sony PlayStation Portable, radio, media
Blog posts 2005-10-24
Microsoft's Portable Media Centers: a strong monoculture headstart
Earlier this year, I wrote a column that asked whether Microsoft's monoculture might take the 'pod' out of podcasting? In an online whiteboard session see the video I explain the phenomenon in more detail and talk about how a monoculture in media player technologies could also lead to...
Tags: Microsoft Corp.
Blog posts 2005-05-06
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