Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 5, 2004 at 7:32:00 PM CEST
DRM 'will be cracked' says iTunes hacker
According to the Australian researcher who cracked the authentication used by Apple's iTunes software, current-generation Digital Rights Management (DRM) will never work.
David Hammerton, a 20-year-old Arts-Science student, reverse-engineered iTunes' authentication measures last week, allowing non-iTunes clients to connect to Apple's servers. It was the second time he had managed to crack the authentication, however this time it took him just eight hours to break the brand-new iTunes 4.5, which had been patched against his previous research.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 4, 2004 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Next Gen Mp3 To Be Unpirateable?
You can rip, copy, or play an MP3 file, but one thing you can't do is get more than two channels of sound out of it. Soon, you will be able to, although you may have more trouble copying the file. The Fraunhofer Institute, originator of the file format that brought the music industry to its knees, is adding surround sound and copyright protection.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 30, 2004 at 12:19:00 PM CEST
Russian MP3 site sells DRM-free music by the megabyte
That's the apparently insane price proposition that a Russian site called allofmp3.comoffers its customers. You buy your music by the megabyte, at the rate of 500 MB for $US5 and you dial in the sort of encoding you want: MP3, MPEG4-AAC, OGG, MPC, WMA etc at various bit rates using different encoders _ say the LAME alt-presets. If we were prepared to pay more for the bandwidth, we could elect to have the music encoded with lossless algorithms, giving us the same quality as the original CD.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 25, 2004 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
DVDRhelp.com & VCDhelp.com
This site will help you to make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs or DVDs that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX, MOV, RM, WMV and ASF. We also have an extensive list of standalone DVD Players with compatibility information such as CD-R/W, DVD±R/W, VCD, SVCD, MP3 and more.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 22, 2004 at 2:26:00 AM CEST
Ripping from the radio
p2pnet.net News:- The entertainment industry is re-doubling its efforts to force digital radio listeners to listen to what the labels want, and pay for the privilege, too.
And with that in mind, there's an interesting new radio app that'll get you a list of available Shoutcast stations you can record, "creating a single MP3 file for each song the station plays".
It'll also allow you to record up to 300 streams at one time while its 'Memory Recording' tracks the songs you download, copying the final song file to your music library. If that song gets re-recorded in the future, it'll skip it so if you end up deleting it, it won't record, "bloating your collection with music you don't want".
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 16, 2004 at 1:32:00 AM CEST
Lindows is now known as Linspire
Lindows, bowing to legal pressure from Microsoft, has renamed its operating system. The company announced on Wednesday that its Linux operating system will now be called Linspire and that a similarly named Web site will be the primary online destination for consumers who want to purchase the company's products or who need support for previously purchased software.
¬> linspire.com
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 6, 2004 at 2:13:00 PM CEST
What will Playfair do for you?
The playfair program is quite simple. It takes one of the iTMS Protected AAC Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File. It then optionally copies the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 5, 2004 at 4:57:00 PM CEST
Microsoft plant Mietmodell für Online-Musik
Microsoft entwickelt unter dem Codenamen "Janus" ein Mietmodell für die Nutzung von im Internet bereitgestellten Audiodateien. Im Sommer 2004 soll die Technologie in das Angebot der Online-Sparte MSN eingegliedert werden. Erste Testversionen wurden bereits an Entwickler ausgeliefert, die Fertigstellung des Final Release ist für Juli geplant.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 18, 2004 at 5:01:00 PM CET
Großrazzia gegen Computerhacker - 38.000 Gigabyte Raubkopien sichergestellt
Mitglieder von Internetforum betrieben Tauschbörse für Raubkopien - Weltweit 11.820 Server gehackt.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 16, 2004 at 9:08:00 AM CET
Klagen "letztes Mittel" gegen Österreichs Downloader
In den USA kämpft die Musikindustrie mit Klagen gegen illegale Musik-Tauschbörsen. Für Österreich soll ein derartiges Vorgehen laut dem Verband der österreichischen Musikwirtschaft, IFPI, das "letzte Mittel" sein. Seit geraumer Zeit kämpft die Musikindustrie auch hier zu Lande gegen den illegalen Musik-Download.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 13, 2004 at 2:40:00 AM CET
Copyright-Krieg in der EU
Das Europaparlament hat der drastischen Verschärfung der Durchsetzungsmöglichkeiten von "geistigem Eigentum" zugestimmt und die Entfremdung der "Generation Copy" von der Politik damit auf die Spitze getrieben.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 7, 2004 at 11:23:00 PM CET
Filmindustrie behindert Online-Downloads
Während die Musikindustrie seit längerem unter Umsatzeinbußen leidet, die sie vor allem auf illegale Tauschbörsen zurückführt, ist die Filmindustrie bis dato von solchen Szenarien verschont geblieben. Dies dürfte mit ein Grund sein, warum legale Download-Angebote für Filme im Netz derzeit eher verhindert als gefördert werden. Bei der Online-Videothek Movielink hemmen die streng gesetzten Nutzungsbedingungen einen weit reichenden Erfolg.
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