Cloakware, the provider of proven software solutions for securing business and digital assets and an Irdeto Group company announced its DTCP-IP Media Player solution, designed to enable cable operators to secure and monetise programming content within the home entertainment network. The solution, part of Irdeto’s overall solution for cable operators, was developed to provide a […]
A court in the Netherlands has ruled that the filesharing site must block its site for Dutch internet users within 10 days or face stiff fines. Failure to comply with the ruling will result in fines of E30,000 a day up to a maximum of E3m for the three founders of the site, Peter Sunde […]
Sonic Solutions and Widevine are enabling the delivery of premium movies on USB flash memory devices. The self-contained CinemaNow USB Movie Drives will include an integrated media player as well as the necessary video codecs to enable instant high-quality PC playback of movie content offline. Once connected to the Internet, consumers can add the title […]
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has granted judgment and issued a permanent injunction against Andrew Bate, the owner/operator of the piracy forum website www.ROM10X.com and the piracy software website www.THEFILESHOP.com. While it was operational, the ROM10X website was known in piracy circles as the leading resource for piracy information and instructions. DISH Network, NagraStar […]
Major Hollywood studios have requested that a Swedish civil court impose an injunction against the operators of file-sharing service Pirate Bay. The studios are seeking to stop Pirate Bay’s operators and its Internet-service provider from making copyrighted movies and TV shows easily available on the Internet. The studios are also asking for an unspecified fine. […]
A study by the International Intellectual Property Alliance says that if America isn’t careful, the music industry's piracy problems will hit the movie business. The study suggests that those industries are responsible for far more of the country's economic gains than is widely believed — more than 25 per cent of the US economic growth. […]
During the recent board meeting of AEPOC, Europe's Anti-piracy association for the protection of encrypted works and services, AEPOC discussed the "Pirate Bay" sentence in Sweden and the election of the "Pirate Party" into the European Parliament. AEPOC views the "success" of the Pirate Party, which questions the concept of intellectual property and copyright, and […]
In-Stat says efforts to stop the 12 billion illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) downloads occurring annually in the US have come up short. In-Stat believes content owners and service providers need to shift from content protection to a two-pronged content monetisation strategy consisting of digital rights information management and offering a better user experience than illegal P2P […]
From Colin Mann in Geneva Senior executives from the Kudelski Group have reiterated the company's commitment to OpenTV, despite its failure to take control of convergent media solutions provider. Kudelski has made a non-binding proposal to acquire all of the Class A ordinary shares of OpenTV not currently owned by Kudelski or its affiliates, for […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Italian consumers association Altroconsumo has lodged a complaint to the country's Communications Authority (Agcom), the Antitrust Authority, and to the European commissioners for Competition and the Information Society, regarding the issue of encryption of the satellite broadcasts of Italian public broadcaster RAI. According to Altroconsumo, in the period between April […]