Topic: News

A way has been cleared for consumers to legally burn DVDs of films downloaded from the internet, after a meeting of Hollywood studios, technology companies and the group that licenses DVD software.

The group calling itself the MediaDefender-Defenders (MDD) has, as promised, struck again, this time leaking what appears to be the full, uncompiled source code to anti-piracy watchdog MediaDefender’s toolset.

Starz Media has announced two deals to expand its online presence by distributing movies and digital content through Amazon's Unbox video download service and Xbox 360 Live Marketplace.

The folks at the P2P torrent site Meganova have cyber squatted MediaDefenders' attempt at a honey trap.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has shut down six eDonkey servers in Germany through a series of injunctions from regional courts in Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, and Frankfurt.

Microsoft's implementation of HD DVD's interactivity layer will be soon promoted on Toshiba HD DVD hardware and Hollywood movies using a fancy new logo.

With Microsoft's antitrust appeal now decided, the next U.S. technology company to get a place on the European Union (EU)'s regulatory hot seat may be Apple, an antitrust expert said today.

The reason consumers hate digital rights management isn’t due to the technology itself but to how copyright owners have used it, DRM providers said at the Digital Rights Strategies conference.

RealNetworks have announced the integration of Sonic's Authorscript media formatting and disc burning engine into the new version of RealPlayer.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been told by a Judge that if it wants to sue P2P pirates in his court it will have to actually present some evidence.

A Toshiba-developed single-sided triple-layer HD DVD disc format with a total storage capacity of 51GB that was reportedly approved by the DVD Forum is just a preliminary version (version 1.9) rather than a final one, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

LG officially introduced its second-generation LG Super Blu Player (model BH200). Sporting both formats' logos, LG's new high-def player is capable of Blu-ray disc and HD DVD playback with BD-Java and HDi interactivity.

The ad-supported music store SpiralFrog made its long-awaited debut on Sunday evening opening with more than 770,000 songs and 3,500 music videos from numerous independent labels and Universal Music Group, the largest of the top four record companies.

Pirate-hunting peer-2-peer poisoners Media Defender seem likely to have been trying to set up a fake torrent site with the aim of entrapping p2p users.

The DVD Forum has approved the introduction of another extension of the HD DVD format, which allows HD DVD Format content to be stored on red-laser recordable discs.

Moser Baer India Ltd has entered the PC peripherals market with the introduction of its first DVD writer, partnering with Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions.

It looks like HD DVD has pulled ahead in the race to put gigabytes on 12cm discs with the formal approval of it's new triple-layer 51GB standard.

Sony have announced that it will be adding two new Blu-ray Disc players to its roster of high-definition movie players. Joining the $499 entry-level BDP-S300 sometime this fall will be two higher-end machines.

Panasonic announced the debut of its newest LCD home theater projector with 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) native resolution. The PT-AE2000U suits or savvy home theater enthusiasts and audio video professionals who desire an immersive home entertainment viewing experience.

CMC Magnetics, Ritek, Prodisc Technology and Daxon Technology, four major Taiwan-based producers of blank CD-R discs, are poised to jointly file legal proceedings in Taiwan to accuse Royal Philips Electronics of imposing its unreasonable and discriminating Veeza licensing program upon them.