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October 5th, 2007
“HD DVD provides a consistent platform that allows us to go beyond DVD to deliver the best possible next generation HD experiences and begins to introduce consumers to the infinite potential of web-enabled content,” said Craig Kornblau, President of Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Digital Platforms. “With our web-enabled features, we wanted to deliver capabilities that compliment the HD movie watching experience while also offering a destination online that gives users the opportunity to dive deeper into their favorite movies and TV shows. We’ve just begun to explore HD DVD’s potential and this infrastructure lays the foundation for us to easily evolve with consumer preferences.”
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October 3rd, 2007
The DVD CCA is responsible for making sure that all parties have agreed to standards allowing the digital locks to be included in a downloaded movie file and then transferred to a protected DVD to work on current players. Acutrack’s On Demand engine is able to download content from a distributor’s site and produce a physical DVD with a professional retail printing, then package and mail it as soon as the consumer requests a physical DVD. This gives customers the ability to produce and ship custom packaged CDs or DVDs one at a time. Ideal for customer’s who are selling downloadable content, On Demand Production allows manufacturing of CDs and DVDs on an as needed basis, eliminating the up-front costs of producing multiple titles normally associated with CD/DVD production.
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September 27th, 2007
The U.S. complaint over China’s enforcement of intellectual property rights is the culmination of years of agitation in Washington and elsewhere over one of the world’s biggest sources of illegally copied goods, including DVDs, CDs, designer clothes, sporting goods and medications. “China has set one of its thresholds for prosecution of criminal copyright infringement at five hundred infringing copies,” Millan said. “We find it difficult to understand, however, why China has chosen to tie the hands of its prosecutors and prevent its authorities from prosecuting a copyright pirate who is caught with only 499 copies of an infringing product.” Millan also complained that China refused to criminalize piracy of American movies, music, books and software still being blocked from the Chinese market because of censorship review laws.
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September 25th, 2007
TitleMatch first unveiled its CSS enabled service at the January Consumer Electronics Show and more recently at the ESCA technology conference in Hollywood, California. The new TitleMatch system leverages Sonic’s Qflix technology for recording delivered entertainment to DVD with CSS encryption. In addition, the TitleMatch service uses Macrovision’s RipGuard and Fortium’s Patronus technologies to enable the secure custom manufacturing of premium movie and television titles onto recordable DVDs. The DVD Copy Control Association is a not-for-profit corporation with responsibility for licensing Content Scramble System to manufactures of DVD hardware, discs and related products. Licensees include the owners and manufacturers of the content of DVD discs; creators of encryption engines and many more.
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September 22nd, 2007
For the first time, commercial vendors and individual consumers will be able to legally create CSS copy protected DVDs for playback on existing DVD players.
The Board of Directors of the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) gave final approval late Wednesday for the “CSS Managed Recording” technology, which was also approved by the DVD Forum last year.
With this new application of the Content Scramble System (CSS), the copy protection used on most commercially produced DVDs, vendors could, for example, create protected DVDs in custom runs at new on-demand factories or on store-based kiosks.
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September 18th, 2007
Peter Yip, CEO of CDC Games said at CDC Games, we have long recognized the potential severity of illicit piracy activities, and have achieved success in individual campaigns against piracy,” “The formation of OGAAP is a milestone achievement for the online game industry and will seek to leverage the combined power, experience and efforts of many key industry players.” He also said “Like other segments in the entertainment industry, we have experienced an increase in piracy, especially with some of our more popular online games. Our primary objective is to reduce, and if possible, eliminate these piracy challenges so our industry can continue its vibrant growth throughout China. This alliance and the recent successful convictions of illegal operators are major steps in achieving our objectives.”
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September 17th, 2007
Anyone who has purchased a current Microsoft operating system probably knows that to download updates, bug fixes and other goodies on a regular basis, your personal computer must phone home to Microsoft and report that it contains a legit operating system. Every server contains some issues from time to time and mistakes happen. But when the result starts clearing Microsoft customers that they are working with a fake version of Windows vista installed on their machines that can the potential to move into a vast black eye for the company. One point of failure led to a big problem for nineteen hours.
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