Posted by Simon Perry on 15 August 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Business, Investments, News Corp., Copy Protection
NDS, a DRM, PVR and interactive TV company, will be taken private, away from its current public listed status.
News Corporation currently owns approximately 72% of the equity and a stunning 96% of the voting power of NDS through its ownership of 100% of the outstanding Series B shares.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 5 June 2008 | Tagged as: Microsoft, Copy Protection, User Generated Content (UGC)
What a blunt knife Microsoft’s DRM is. We don’t know if you’ve noticed before, but some time in the last, Microsoft made change to their Media Player, stopping screen grabs of videos that are playing.
Clearly Microsoft thought this would be something that would appeal to content owners in fear of their work being taken without […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, Copy Protection, Video on Demand (VoD)
Adobe have launched a stand-alone Media Player (AMP).
Using Adobe Air, the AMP plays back high quality video both on PCs and Apple computers at standard def and 1080p.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 14 March 2008 | Tagged as: BBC iPlayer, Apple, Copy Protection, UK, BBC
Just when the BBC were pleased to tell everyone that they’d fixed the hole in their iPhone iPlayer service that let people download TV programmes without DRM - the very next day, the originator of the hack, Paul Battley, produced an update to get around the BBC’s fix, re-opening the whole.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 7 December 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Security, Investments, Copy Protection
Macrovision, content protection company, has agreed to purchase TV listing company, Gemstar-TV Guide International in a cash and stock transaction with a value of approximately $2.8 billion.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 November 2007 | Tagged as: Copy Protection, Press Release, Reviews
Another pocket-pleasing UMPC hits the market.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 August 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Copy Protection, Content Deals, Music
Retail giant seals deal with Universal and EMI for DRM-free downloads.
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 August 2007 | Tagged as: Microsoft, Business, Nokia, Copy Protection, Wireless, Mobile, Cellular
Microsoft is spreading their DRM offering beyond the PC, now to Nokia mobile phones.
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 July 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Apple, Copy Protection, Content Deals, Music
Plus, HMV.co.uk will offer both CDs and MP3 from September.
Posted by Simon Perry on 12 March 2007 | Tagged as: Apple, Government, Copy Protection, Europe, Cross platform, Legal
Europe is stepping up the pressure on Apple again. This time it’s a grand fromage at the EU voicing concerns.
