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1. DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY
The recent success of Apple's iTunes music download service may hint at
what digital rights management (DRM) can offer customers and corporations
in the next wave of Internet commerce. In the new issue of IEEE Security &
Privacy magazine, Michael Lesk looks at "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
of DRM. Lesk examines issues of piracy, privacy, and the business models
(or lack thereof) currently holding DRM back. Read on: - http://www.computer.org/security/v1n3/j3dig.htm>
1. DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY
The recent success of Apple's iTunes music download service may hint at
what digital rights management (DRM) can offer customers and corporations
in the next wave of Internet commerce. In the new issue of IEEE Security &
Privacy magazine, Michael Lesk looks at "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
of DRM. Lesk examines issues of piracy, privacy, and the business models
(or lack thereof) currently holding DRM back. Read on: - http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/may03/intro.html>
5. COPYRIGHT WARS: IEEE SPECTRUM REPORTS
A brave new world of digital entertainment awaits, but as IEEE Spectrum
magazine reports, this future risks being stalled by the lack of consensus
on digital copyright control. The consumer electronics industry wants
abundant content to be readily and cheaply available to drive the sale of
new products. The entertainment industry, meanwhile, wants fair
remuneration for the use of that content. These potentially contradictory
goals are leading to heated battles. Read more about the war: - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0620f.html#item11
"Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?"
With the judicial system appearing to defer to the entertainment
industry when it comes to cases of alleged digital infringement,
a new proposal from Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) is finding favor
among technology companies and civil liberties groups. The ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0606f.html#item4
"Senator Wants Limits on Copy Protection"
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Ky.) has written a bill that aims to
regulate digital rights management (DRM) systems, effectively
limiting how copyright owners can control the distribution of
digital content through copy-protection technology. "The ... - http://volokh.blogspot.com/2003_05_04_volokh_archive.html#200241514
- http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item1
"Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy"
The music industry is clandestinely developing a barrage of
technical weapons to use against online music pirates, including
programs that freeze users' computers, slow their Internet
connections, and perform seek-and-destroy searches on their hard ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item14
"The Congressional Corral"
Legislation not only threatens to restrict the way consumers use
technology, but the development of technology itself. The music
and movie industries prompted legislation from Sen. Ernest
"Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) last year that would have mandated ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0409w.html#item7
"Studios Take Piracy Battle to the States"
Movie studios are trying to convince state legislators to widen
the scope of laws governing theft of cable and phone services to
include new digital devices and Internet-based products, thus
giving the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) "an ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0402w.html#item3
"ISMA Pushes DRM for MPEG-4"
In an effort to develop digital rights management (DRM)
capabilities to shield multimedia content formatted in MPEG-4,
the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) is moving forward
with its Content Protection specification, which provides an ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0328f.html#item3
"Senator Calls for Copy-Protection Tags"
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the Digital Consumer Right to
Know Act this week, in which copyright holders who enhance their
digital content with anti-copying schemes would be required to
warn consumers that such measures are in place by clearly ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item9
"Chips Losing Some Antipiracy Support"
Chipmakers' plans to build anti-piracy controls into hardware,
known as "hard coding," have been laid aside due to confusion in
the marketplace and the public policy arena. Instead, consumer
electronics companies are going with a second-best alternative in ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0310m.html#item2
"Digital Copyrights Challenged"
In response to consumers clamoring for exemptions to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), more than half of whom are
complaining about DVDs bought overseas that will not play on
U.S. players, film and recording industry association lawyers ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0303m.html#item7
"Senator Seeks Full Copyright Disclosures"
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) feels that vendors of products equipped
with anti-copying safeguards should alert customers to such
restrictions by clearly labeling such items as
copyright-controlled. Wyden believes that informed consumers ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0207f.html#item14
"Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Together at Last?"
Representatives from the music and technology industries agreed
to reject government legislation on the use of copyright
protection measures and devise their own solutions to curb
digital copyright infringement, according to a recent accord ... - http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534271
"A fine balance - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0127m.html#item4
"Taming the Frontier"
The Internet is becoming more structured and regulated as
government and businesses work to stamp out illegal or
competitive activity. In 1996, Electronic Freedom Foundation
founder John Perry Barlow wrote in the "Declaration of ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0103f.html#item1
"Tech Industry to Take On Hollywood over Digital Rules"
A new coalition formed from the Business Software Alliance and
the Computer Systems Policy Project intends to recruit consumer
and business groups to help launch a lobbying campaign that takes
aim at copy-protection legislation supported by the entertainment ... - http://www.gnu.org/press/2002-03-18-digitalspeech.html
- http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1227f.html#item5
"Critics Fear Broadcast Flag Would Stomp on Consumer Rights"
Inserting broadcast flags into television transmissions in order
to limit or prevent unauthorized distribution of programs will
violate consumers' rights and stifle high-tech innovation,
critics charge. The flag, which devices would pick up to render ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1220f.html#item4
"Radio Free Software"
Electrical engineer Eric Blossom's GNU Radio project represents a
significant step toward the creation of a universal computer that
can operate like any other device, a development that has content
providers up in arms and pursuing legislation that could severely ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1115f.html#item9
"Hunting Down the Pirates"
Researchers from the Palo Alto Research Center, Hewlett-Packard,
the University of Wollongong, Microsoft, and others will be among
the presenters at the Association for Computing Machinery's
workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM 2002) to be held ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1030w.html#item5
"Firm Says Law Stifles Fair Use"
A company named 321 Studios is leading another battle between
copyright holders and fair-use advocates. The company makes a
DVD Copy Plus product that enables people to make copies of DVDs
with copy-proof technology, but the Motion Picture Association ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item11
"Fighting Back"
Media companies are estranging consumers, tech companies, and
creative artists by pushing for legislation that would increase
their control over copyrighted works even further, cutting into
fair-use rights in their quest to stamp out digital piracy. Such ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item3
"Media Seek to Limit Digital Copying"
Speaking at an Associated Press conference, Electronic Frontier
Foundation attorney Fred von Lohmann protested legislation from
Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) that would require consumer
electronics manufacturers to install "copyright chips" that would ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1004f.html#item2
"Congress Asked to Unpick Copy Lock Laws"
Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and John Doolittle (D-Calif.)
introduced legislation on Thursday calling for amendments to the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that would allow
consumers to circumvent anti-copying technology measures for ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0918w.html#item2
"Who's Running the Digital Show?"
Consumers are losing more and more ground in terms of what they
can do with electronic devices as hardware vendors and even the
government espouse the media and software industries' vision of a
controlled digital media environment. A draft report from the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0913f.html#item3
"Digital Rights Outlook: Squishy"
As media companies continue to push for stringent digital
copyright controls, some technology firms are going ahead with
less restrictive digital rights management technology. The
debate over copy protection controls appears to now preclude the ... - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
- http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0809f.html#item1
"Lights, Camera, Legislation"
On Thursday, the FCC will debate digital broadcast copy
protection, which movie studios such as Disney are clamoring for,
against the protests of the high-tech industry. High-tech
companies are placing big bets on the advent of digital ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0802f.html#item5>
"Forgery Bill Could Criminalize Copying"
A bill proposed by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) originally outlawed
the counterfeiting of any "physical feature" used to authenticate
software, music, and movies, but a recent revision that removes
the word "physical" from the proposal has critics and consumer ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0729m.html#item6
"Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute"
Copyright holders such as movie studios are applauding
congressional legislation calling for the institution of digital
copyright protections to stem piracy, while consumer proponents
and technology executives worry that such measures could severely ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0724w.html#item5
"Hollywood, Tech Make Suspicious Pairing"
Microsoft's proposed Palladium computing architecture could
significantly improve the security of computer systems, but
Mercury News technology columnist Dan Gillmor warns that it could
also allow the entertainment and software industry to choke off . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0719f.html#item1
"Tech Activists Protest Anti-Copying"
Free software activists voiced their dismay over being left out
of a Commerce Department roundtable on Wednesday by interrupting
MPAA President and panelist Jack Valenti's address with hoots and
jeers. The panel was there to discuss plans to impose . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0719f.html#item8
"Digital Copy Locks: No International Consensus"
European and American lawmakers disagree about the deployment of
digital rights management (DRM) technology in electronic devices.
The European Parliament has stated that it will allow the
development of DRM standards to be directed by the market, while . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0712f.html#item13
"Beware the Gotcha in the New Intel Feature"
Intel is working on technology that could be used to limit
personal use of digital content. One example is the Trusted
Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), a technology designed to
ensure secure e-commerce transactions that Intel is ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0614f.html#item2
"Content, Tech Industries Debate Digital Copy Protection"
Representatives of content providers and technology companies,
brought together on Wednesday for a panel discussion organized by
the Cato Institute, strongly disagreed on how to curb digital
piracy: Content firms believe that adding copy protection is the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0607f.html#item3
"Copyfight Renewal"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit
against a number of entertainment companies, saying five owners
of ReplayTV devices have the legal right to skip commercials and
play recorded shows on other platforms. The EFF has also sued to ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0607f.html#item13
"Vendors Deride Mandatory Copy Controls"
Technology vendors speaking before a House Judiciary subcommittee
on Wednesday said that imposed digital rights management
technology would not stop piracy of copyrighted works on the
Internet. Microsoft's new media platforms president, Will Poole, ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0605w.html#item6
"MIT Student Hacks Into Xbox"
MIT student Andrew Huang reports in a recently published research
paper that he has successfully breached the security system of
Microsoft's Xbox game console and extracted software keys that
would allow the console to run unauthorized applications. He ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0603m.html#item18
"This Is War"
The battle lines have been drawn up between technology companies
and Hollywood over how to combat digital piracy. Studio CEOs
believe technology companies have a responsibility to curb
piracy, since they market products that consumers are using to ... - http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/05/10/spying.protest.idg/index.html=
- http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20020319aol_intel.htm
SENATOR HOLLINGS INTRODUCES BILL TO MANDATE COPY CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
On March 21, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC) introduced the Consumer Broadband
and Digital Television Promotion Act (S.2048), along with co-sponsors Sens.
John Breaux (D-LA), Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Bill
Nelson (D-NE), and Ted Stevens (R-AK). Hollings bill seeks to protect
digital media content owners and promote broadband development by requiring
manufacturers to include copyright-protection technologies in their
products. Manufacturers and content owners would have a year to come to
agreement on a technology standard for implementation, failing which the
Federal Communications Commission would be authorized to impose standards.
Once a standard was in place, it would be illegal to manufacture devices
that didn't implement it. As might be expected, the proposal has caused a
serious split between the content-industry represented by the Recording
Industry Association and the Motion Picture Association of America, and
manufacturers, such as Intel, who are joined by technology advocacy and
consumer groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and
DigitalConsumer.Org in opposing the bill.
Introduction of the bill prompted a joint statement of principles by Intel
and AOL Time Warner highlighting their commitments to protection of
intellectual property. See: - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0515w.html#item3
"Group Targets Digital TV Piracy"
In an effort to stamp out digital TV piracy, the Broadcast
Protection Discussion Group, which includes various technology
companies, consumer electronics manufacturers, and Hollywood
studios, released a draft proposal on Saturday calling for ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0508w.html#item19
"Hollywood Versus High-Tech"
The threat of digital piracy and the entertainment industry's
determination to stop it is putting copyright owners and
technology companies at odds. Not even collaboration to develop
copyright technology standards has helped bring about a ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0424w.html#item9
"Shooting Blanks"
The manifesto of the recently organized GeekPAC digital rights
lobbying group maintains that technological innovation and
economic growth is being stifled by federal regulations that
serve the interests of a handful of media companies, the Digital ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0415m.html#item1
"Battle Stirs Over Copyright Laws"
The entertainment and technology industries are engaging each
other closer in their battle over anti-piracy technology. Sen.
Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) recently added coals to the fire with
the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act that would ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0329f.html#item1
"Another Punch for Copy Protection"
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is planning to introduce legislation
in the House that calls for the embedding of anti-copying
safeguards in digital devices. He noted the similarity between
his bill and the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0329f.html#item3
"DVD Wants Calif. Supreme Court to Reverse DeCSS Ruling"
DeCSS, computer code designed to circumvent DVD copy-protection,
remains protected under the First Amendment in California, but
the DVD Copy Control Association is asking the state Supreme
Court to reverse a ruling that makes it so. Lawyers for the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0329f.html#item9
"D.C. Anti-Piracy Plans Fuel Culture Clash"
The technology and entertainment industry seem unable to resolve
their differences fast enough to please Congress, which is
showing more willingness to intervene in the situation as time
goes on. New data shows that music industry sales contracted by ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0327w.html#item10
"Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders"
The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
(CBDTPA), recently introduced by Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.),
would force programmers and software firms to distribute code
with federally-approved copy-protection schemes. The bill, if ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item1
"Copyright Protection Bill Creates Furor in High-Tech Industry"
Sen. Ernest Hollings' (D-S.C.) Consumer Broadband and Digital
Television Act would require the high-tech industry to create a
technical anti-copying standard to be embedded into hardware and
software within a year, otherwise the FCC will be authorized to ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0322f.html#item2
"Hollings Proposes Copyright Defense"
The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
introduced yesterday by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen.
Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) would require electronics manufacturers
to install anti-copying safeguards in new hardware and software. ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0304m.html#item5
"Antipiracy Bill a High-Tech Threat, Hollywood-Style"
The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act touted by
Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.), which would require electronics
manufacturers to incorporate copy-protection technology into all
their hardware, could raise development costs and slow product ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item1
"Senate Mulls Law to End Tech-Media Piracy Fight"
At a congressional hearing, legislators heard arguments but no
solutions between media and technology executives as to how to
protect copyrighted material from digital piracy, so Senate
Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item4
"CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy"
Recording labels such as Universal Music Group and Sony Music are
stealthily releasing copy-protected CDs into the market.
Grass-roots opposition from consumers is increasing as consumers
find they cannot play some of their store-bought CDs on their ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0220w.html#item5
"EFF Looks to Grassroots in CD Copy-Protection Fight"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is encouraging a grassroots
letter-writing campaign to back consumer electronics company
Philips in its criticism of the recording industry's use of
copy-protected CDs. Philips, which co-invented the CD format, ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0118f.html#item10
"A Cop in Every Computer"
The content industry is pushing for an initiative to embed a
system for protecting copyright in all computer hardware,
software, and digital devices, as well as distribute it
throughout the Internet at any point where copyright infringement ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1024w.html#item13
"Microsoft Explores Legal Options Against Hacker"
On Monday, Microsoft declared that it is mulling its legal
options and investigating an anonymous hacker, "Beale Screamer,"
who compromised its digital rights management software last week,
enabling users to distribute online songs free of restrictions. ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1015m.html#item3
"Legislation Puts Rights, Technology in Danger"
Consumers' rights and technological innovation may be at risk as
the country focuses on terrorism and loses track of copyright
law. Congress is considering mandating that PC vendors and other
personal electronics companies build in copyright protection ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1003w.html#item1
"Lobbying Group Protests Copyright-Protection Proposal"
The Association for Computing Machinery has urged Senate Commerce
Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) not to
introduce legislation requiring hardware manufacturers to include
copyright protection technologies in their products. Hollings' ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1003w.html#item11
"Tripping the Rippers"
As the record industry intensifies its efforts to prevent people
>from copying CDs on computers or in CD burners, reports continue
to emerge on the Internet on how computer experts and pirates
have been able to get around the new digital protections. ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0827m.html#item7
"Senator Plans Anti-Piracy Copyright Legislation"
New legislation being discussed in the Senate Commerce Committee
would require content providers and hardware manufacturers to
develop copyright protection schemes for digital content. Backed
by committee chairman Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0516w.html#item5
"TV Makers Take a Side on Anti-Piracy Technologies"
The Consumer Electronics Association has written a letter to the
FCC in which it says most TV makers, including Sony and
Mitsubishi, endorse a tough new copy-protection standard for
digital TVs. The new standard, IEEE 1394, or FireWire, would . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0413f.html#item9
"Banned Code Lives in Poetry and Song"
The movie industry is antsy to stem a file-sharing free-for-all
of its copyrighted works on the Internet. Hackers have already
written succinct code, called DeCSS, to descramble the code
protecting DVDs from being copied, but a recent legal ruling . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0404w.html#item12
"Napster-Proof CDs"
New technology to prevent CD downloads will make its U.S. debut
this month in a new release from Music City Records. The
technology seeks to prevent the downloading of CDs into MP3
format for storage or trading, and the recording industry will be . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0404w.html#item13
"Spotlight Shifts to Music And Film Industries"
Digital rights management (DRM) software is looming on the
horizon of the recording industry. Users will soon have to pay
for each specific use of music content, and companies will have
an amazing amount of control over their music content. Companies . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0330f.html#item13
"Hardwiring Copyrights"
Record companies continue to test different versions of digital
rights management software in the hope that they will be able to
prevent consumers from copying and saving songs or any other form
of digital material. However, critics doubt that dedicated . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0328w.html#item9
"Magazine Fires Latest Salvo in DVD Case Appeal"
Lawyers for 2600 Magazine, the publication at the center of the
legal firestorm surrounding DeCSS, the code used for descrambling
DVD encryption, have filed a new brief with the appeals court
hearing the magazine's case. The brief claims that federal Judge . . . - http://www.computer.org/security/v1n3/j3dig.htm>
1. DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY
The recent success of Apple's iTunes music download service may hint at
what digital rights management (DRM) can offer customers and corporations
in the next wave of Internet commerce. In the new issue of IEEE Security &
Privacy magazine, Michael Lesk looks at "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
of DRM. Lesk examines issues of piracy, privacy, and the business models
(or lack thereof) currently holding DRM back. Read on: - http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/may03/intro.html>
5. COPYRIGHT WARS: IEEE SPECTRUM REPORTS
A brave new world of digital entertainment awaits, but as IEEE Spectrum
magazine reports, this future risks being stalled by the lack of consensus
on digital copyright control. The consumer electronics industry wants
abundant content to be readily and cheaply available to drive the sale of
new products. The entertainment industry, meanwhile, wants fair
remuneration for the use of that content. These potentially contradictory
goals are leading to heated battles. Read more about the war: - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0620f.html#item11
"Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?"
With the judicial system appearing to defer to the entertainment
industry when it comes to cases of alleged digital infringement,
a new proposal from Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) is finding favor
among technology companies and civil liberties groups. The ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0606f.html#item4
"Senator Wants Limits on Copy Protection"
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Ky.) has written a bill that aims to
regulate digital rights management (DRM) systems, effectively
limiting how copyright owners can control the distribution of
digital content through copy-protection technology. "The ... - http://volokh.blogspot.com/2003_05_04_volokh_archive.html#200241514
- http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item1
"Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy"
The music industry is clandestinely developing a barrage of
technical weapons to use against online music pirates, including
programs that freeze users' computers, slow their Internet
connections, and perform seek-and-destroy searches on their hard ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item14
"The Congressional Corral"
Legislation not only threatens to restrict the way consumers use
technology, but the development of technology itself. The music
and movie industries prompted legislation from Sen. Ernest
"Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) last year that would have mandated ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0409w.html#item7
"Studios Take Piracy Battle to the States"
Movie studios are trying to convince state legislators to widen
the scope of laws governing theft of cable and phone services to
include new digital devices and Internet-based products, thus
giving the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) "an ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0402w.html#item3
"ISMA Pushes DRM for MPEG-4"
In an effort to develop digital rights management (DRM)
capabilities to shield multimedia content formatted in MPEG-4,
the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) is moving forward
with its Content Protection specification, which provides an ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0328f.html#item3
"Senator Calls for Copy-Protection Tags"
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the Digital Consumer Right to
Know Act this week, in which copyright holders who enhance their
digital content with anti-copying schemes would be required to
warn consumers that such measures are in place by clearly ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0312w.html#item9
"Chips Losing Some Antipiracy Support"
Chipmakers' plans to build anti-piracy controls into hardware,
known as "hard coding," have been laid aside due to confusion in
the marketplace and the public policy arena. Instead, consumer
electronics companies are going with a second-best alternative in ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0310m.html#item2
"Digital Copyrights Challenged"
In response to consumers clamoring for exemptions to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), more than half of whom are
complaining about DVDs bought overseas that will not play on
U.S. players, film and recording industry association lawyers ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0303m.html#item7
"Senator Seeks Full Copyright Disclosures"
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) feels that vendors of products equipped
with anti-copying safeguards should alert customers to such
restrictions by clearly labeling such items as
copyright-controlled. Wyden believes that informed consumers ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0207f.html#item14
"Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Together at Last?"
Representatives from the music and technology industries agreed
to reject government legislation on the use of copyright
protection measures and devise their own solutions to curb
digital copyright infringement, according to a recent accord ... - http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534271
"A fine balance - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0127m.html#item4
"Taming the Frontier"
The Internet is becoming more structured and regulated as
government and businesses work to stamp out illegal or
competitive activity. In 1996, Electronic Freedom Foundation
founder John Perry Barlow wrote in the "Declaration of ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0103f.html#item1
"Tech Industry to Take On Hollywood over Digital Rules"
A new coalition formed from the Business Software Alliance and
the Computer Systems Policy Project intends to recruit consumer
and business groups to help launch a lobbying campaign that takes
aim at copy-protection legislation supported by the entertainment ... - http://www.gnu.org/press/2002-03-18-digitalspeech.html
- http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1227f.html#item5
"Critics Fear Broadcast Flag Would Stomp on Consumer Rights"
Inserting broadcast flags into television transmissions in order
to limit or prevent unauthorized distribution of programs will
violate consumers' rights and stifle high-tech innovation,
critics charge. The flag, which devices would pick up to render ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1220f.html#item4
"Radio Free Software"
Electrical engineer Eric Blossom's GNU Radio project represents a
significant step toward the creation of a universal computer that
can operate like any other device, a development that has content
providers up in arms and pursuing legislation that could severely ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1115f.html#item9
"Hunting Down the Pirates"
Researchers from the Palo Alto Research Center, Hewlett-Packard,
the University of Wollongong, Microsoft, and others will be among
the presenters at the Association for Computing Machinery's
workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM 2002) to be held ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1030w.html#item5
"Firm Says Law Stifles Fair Use"
A company named 321 Studios is leading another battle between
copyright holders and fair-use advocates. The company makes a
DVD Copy Plus product that enables people to make copies of DVDs
with copy-proof technology, but the Motion Picture Association ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item11
"Fighting Back"
Media companies are estranging consumers, tech companies, and
creative artists by pushing for legislation that would increase
their control over copyrighted works even further, cutting into
fair-use rights in their quest to stamp out digital piracy. Such ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item3
"Media Seek to Limit Digital Copying"
Speaking at an Associated Press conference, Electronic Frontier
Foundation attorney Fred von Lohmann protested legislation from
Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) that would require consumer
electronics manufacturers to install "copyright chips" that would ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1004f.html#item2
"Congress Asked to Unpick Copy Lock Laws"
Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and John Doolittle (D-Calif.)
introduced legislation on Thursday calling for amendments to the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that would allow
consumers to circumvent anti-copying technology measures for ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0918w.html#item2
"Who's Running the Digital Show?"
Consumers are losing more and more ground in terms of what they
can do with electronic devices as hardware vendors and even the
government espouse the media and software industries' vision of a
controlled digital media environment. A draft report from the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0913f.html#item3
"Digital Rights Outlook: Squishy"
As media companies continue to push for stringent digital
copyright controls, some technology firms are going ahead with
less restrictive digital rights management technology. The
debate over copy protection controls appears to now preclude the ... - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
- http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0809f.html#item1
"Lights, Camera, Legislation"
On Thursday, the FCC will debate digital broadcast copy
protection, which movie studios such as Disney are clamoring for,
against the protests of the high-tech industry. High-tech
companies are placing big bets on the advent of digital ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0802f.html#item5>
"Forgery Bill Could Criminalize Copying"
A bill proposed by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) originally outlawed
the counterfeiting of any "physical feature" used to authenticate
software, music, and movies, but a recent revision that removes
the word "physical" from the proposal has critics and consumer ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0729m.html#item6
"Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute"
Copyright holders such as movie studios are applauding
congressional legislation calling for the institution of digital
copyright protections to stem piracy, while consumer proponents
and technology executives worry that such measures could severely ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0724w.html#item5
"Hollywood, Tech Make Suspicious Pairing"
Microsoft's proposed Palladium computing architecture could
significantly improve the security of computer systems, but
Mercury News technology columnist Dan Gillmor warns that it could
also allow the entertainment and software industry to choke off . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0719f.html#item1
"Tech Activists Protest Anti-Copying"
Free software activists voiced their dismay over being left out
of a Commerce Department roundtable on Wednesday by interrupting
MPAA President and panelist Jack Valenti's address with hoots and
jeers. The panel was there to discuss plans to impose . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0719f.html#item8
"Digital Copy Locks: No International Consensus"
European and American lawmakers disagree about the deployment of
digital rights management (DRM) technology in electronic devices.
The European Parliament has stated that it will allow the
development of DRM standards to be directed by the market, while . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0712f.html#item13
"Beware the Gotcha in the New Intel Feature"
Intel is working on technology that could be used to limit
personal use of digital content. One example is the Trusted
Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), a technology designed to
ensure secure e-commerce transactions that Intel is ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0614f.html#item2
"Content, Tech Industries Debate Digital Copy Protection"
Representatives of content providers and technology companies,
brought together on Wednesday for a panel discussion organized by
the Cato Institute, strongly disagreed on how to curb digital
piracy: Content firms believe that adding copy protection is the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0607f.html#item3
"Copyfight Renewal"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit
against a number of entertainment companies, saying five owners
of ReplayTV devices have the legal right to skip commercials and
play recorded shows on other platforms. The EFF has also sued to ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0607f.html#item13
"Vendors Deride Mandatory Copy Controls"
Technology vendors speaking before a House Judiciary subcommittee
on Wednesday said that imposed digital rights management
technology would not stop piracy of copyrighted works on the
Internet. Microsoft's new media platforms president, Will Poole, ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0605w.html#item6
"MIT Student Hacks Into Xbox"
MIT student Andrew Huang reports in a recently published research
paper that he has successfully breached the security system of
Microsoft's Xbox game console and extracted software keys that
would allow the console to run unauthorized applications. He ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0603m.html#item18
"This Is War"
The battle lines have been drawn up between technology companies
and Hollywood over how to combat digital piracy. Studio CEOs
believe technology companies have a responsibility to curb
piracy, since they market products that consumers are using to ... - http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/05/10/spying.protest.idg/index.html=
- http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20020319aol_intel.htm
SENATOR HOLLINGS INTRODUCES BILL TO MANDATE COPY CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
On March 21, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC) introduced the Consumer Broadband
and Digital Television Promotion Act (S.2048), along with co-sponsors Sens.
John Breaux (D-LA), Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Bill
Nelson (D-NE), and Ted Stevens (R-AK). Hollings bill seeks to protect
digital media content owners and promote broadband development by requiring
manufacturers to include copyright-protection technologies in their
products. Manufacturers and content owners would have a year to come to
agreement on a technology standard for implementation, failing which the
Federal Communications Commission would be authorized to impose standards.
Once a standard was in place, it would be illegal to manufacture devices
that didn't implement it. As might be expected, the proposal has caused a
serious split between the content-industry represented by the Recording
Industry Association and the Motion Picture Association of America, and
manufacturers, such as Intel, who are joined by technology advocacy and
consumer groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and
DigitalConsumer.Org in opposing the bill.
Introduction of the bill prompted a joint statement of principles by Intel
and AOL Time Warner highlighting their commitments to protection of
intellectual property. See: - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0515w.html#item3
"Group Targets Digital TV Piracy"
In an effort to stamp out digital TV piracy, the Broadcast
Protection Discussion Group, which includes various technology
companies, consumer electronics manufacturers, and Hollywood
studios, released a draft proposal on Saturday calling for ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0508w.html#item19
"Hollywood Versus High-Tech"
The threat of digital piracy and the entertainment industry's
determination to stop it is putting copyright owners and
technology companies at odds. Not even collaboration to develop
copyright technology standards has helped bring about a ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0424w.html#item9
"Shooting Blanks"
The manifesto of the recently organized GeekPAC digital rights
lobbying group maintains that technological innovation and
economic growth is being stifled by federal regulations that
serve the interests of a handful of media companies, the Digital ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0415m.html#item1
"Battle Stirs Over Copyright Laws"
The entertainment and technology industries are engaging each
other closer in their battle over anti-piracy technology. Sen.
Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) recently added coals to the fire with
the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act that would ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0329f.html#item1
"Another Punch for Copy Protection"
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is planning to introduce legislation
in the House that calls for the embedding of anti-copying
safeguards in digital devices. He noted the similarity between
his bill and the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0329f.html#item3
"DVD Wants Calif. Supreme Court to Reverse DeCSS Ruling"
DeCSS, computer code designed to circumvent DVD copy-protection,
remains protected under the First Amendment in California, but
the DVD Copy Control Association is asking the state Supreme
Court to reverse a ruling that makes it so. Lawyers for the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0329f.html#item9
"D.C. Anti-Piracy Plans Fuel Culture Clash"
The technology and entertainment industry seem unable to resolve
their differences fast enough to please Congress, which is
showing more willingness to intervene in the situation as time
goes on. New data shows that music industry sales contracted by ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0327w.html#item10
"Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders"
The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
(CBDTPA), recently introduced by Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.),
would force programmers and software firms to distribute code
with federally-approved copy-protection schemes. The bill, if ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0325m.html#item1
"Copyright Protection Bill Creates Furor in High-Tech Industry"
Sen. Ernest Hollings' (D-S.C.) Consumer Broadband and Digital
Television Act would require the high-tech industry to create a
technical anti-copying standard to be embedded into hardware and
software within a year, otherwise the FCC will be authorized to ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0322f.html#item2
"Hollings Proposes Copyright Defense"
The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
introduced yesterday by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen.
Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) would require electronics manufacturers
to install anti-copying safeguards in new hardware and software. ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0304m.html#item5
"Antipiracy Bill a High-Tech Threat, Hollywood-Style"
The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act touted by
Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.), which would require electronics
manufacturers to incorporate copy-protection technology into all
their hardware, could raise development costs and slow product ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item1
"Senate Mulls Law to End Tech-Media Piracy Fight"
At a congressional hearing, legislators heard arguments but no
solutions between media and technology executives as to how to
protect copyrighted material from digital piracy, so Senate
Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item4
"CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy"
Recording labels such as Universal Music Group and Sony Music are
stealthily releasing copy-protected CDs into the market.
Grass-roots opposition from consumers is increasing as consumers
find they cannot play some of their store-bought CDs on their ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0220w.html#item5
"EFF Looks to Grassroots in CD Copy-Protection Fight"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is encouraging a grassroots
letter-writing campaign to back consumer electronics company
Philips in its criticism of the recording industry's use of
copy-protected CDs. Philips, which co-invented the CD format, ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0118f.html#item10
"A Cop in Every Computer"
The content industry is pushing for an initiative to embed a
system for protecting copyright in all computer hardware,
software, and digital devices, as well as distribute it
throughout the Internet at any point where copyright infringement ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1024w.html#item13
"Microsoft Explores Legal Options Against Hacker"
On Monday, Microsoft declared that it is mulling its legal
options and investigating an anonymous hacker, "Beale Screamer,"
who compromised its digital rights management software last week,
enabling users to distribute online songs free of restrictions. ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1015m.html#item3
"Legislation Puts Rights, Technology in Danger"
Consumers' rights and technological innovation may be at risk as
the country focuses on terrorism and loses track of copyright
law. Congress is considering mandating that PC vendors and other
personal electronics companies build in copyright protection ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1003w.html#item1
"Lobbying Group Protests Copyright-Protection Proposal"
The Association for Computing Machinery has urged Senate Commerce
Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) not to
introduce legislation requiring hardware manufacturers to include
copyright protection technologies in their products. Hollings' ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/1003w.html#item11
"Tripping the Rippers"
As the record industry intensifies its efforts to prevent people
>from copying CDs on computers or in CD burners, reports continue
to emerge on the Internet on how computer experts and pirates
have been able to get around the new digital protections. ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0827m.html#item7
"Senator Plans Anti-Piracy Copyright Legislation"
New legislation being discussed in the Senate Commerce Committee
would require content providers and hardware manufacturers to
develop copyright protection schemes for digital content. Backed
by committee chairman Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., the ... - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0516w.html#item5
"TV Makers Take a Side on Anti-Piracy Technologies"
The Consumer Electronics Association has written a letter to the
FCC in which it says most TV makers, including Sony and
Mitsubishi, endorse a tough new copy-protection standard for
digital TVs. The new standard, IEEE 1394, or FireWire, would . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0413f.html#item9
"Banned Code Lives in Poetry and Song"
The movie industry is antsy to stem a file-sharing free-for-all
of its copyrighted works on the Internet. Hackers have already
written succinct code, called DeCSS, to descramble the code
protecting DVDs from being copied, but a recent legal ruling . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0404w.html#item12
"Napster-Proof CDs"
New technology to prevent CD downloads will make its U.S. debut
this month in a new release from Music City Records. The
technology seeks to prevent the downloading of CDs into MP3
format for storage or trading, and the recording industry will be . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0404w.html#item13
"Spotlight Shifts to Music And Film Industries"
Digital rights management (DRM) software is looming on the
horizon of the recording industry. Users will soon have to pay
for each specific use of music content, and companies will have
an amazing amount of control over their music content. Companies . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0330f.html#item13
"Hardwiring Copyrights"
Record companies continue to test different versions of digital
rights management software in the hope that they will be able to
prevent consumers from copying and saving songs or any other form
of digital material. However, critics doubt that dedicated . . . - http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0328w.html#item9
"Magazine Fires Latest Salvo in DVD Case Appeal"
Lawyers for 2600 Magazine, the publication at the center of the
legal firestorm surrounding DeCSS, the code used for descrambling
DVD encryption, have filed a new brief with the appeals court
hearing the magazine's case. The brief claims that federal Judge . . .