Category: DRM

  • Universal: All the music free to download

    I guess that such a title had you think that you would find the address of a pirate web site. But Universal announced the signature of a two-year deal with SpiralFrog : all the Universal catalog in free legal download. Two things are included in the deal (to explain it): The whole thing will be…

  • Native HDCP at nVidia and ATI

    Those hoping that the future graphic cards supporting HD-TV (High Definition TV) and being compliant with the HDCP encryption standard would stay easy-to-hack will have to forget about their dreams. Just one after the other, nVidia and ATI announced that they would not stay long with the graphic chipset + HDCP chipset solutions of today…

  • MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface

    MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface

    It has been a long time since I started to tell you about the lack of HDMI-ready PC graphics cards on the market. It leads to the impossibility to display correctly HD-TV from a HD-DVD or BluRay DVD from your PC (even with the most powerful graphics cards). But, today, MSI announces such a card.…

  • June, month of HDMI graphic cards

    June, month of HDMI graphic cards

    All information points to June 2006 being the month when we will see the first graphics cards compatible with the HDMI standard for HD television and screens. Up to now, none was available. But ATI and others are preparing their first HDMI-compatible cards and it seems that the price difference between HDMI-compatible and plain cards…

  • MPAA fights silicon vendors now

    it’s been years that you can find on the open market DVD players that can be more or less dezoned (made insensitive to the differences between DVD bought on different continents – more compatible than the DVD standard would like). The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) decided this would end and, with that in…

  • DRM techniques battling for your computer

    The small world of technical solutions to protect the copyrights starts seeing the same issues as the software industry observed fifteen years ago when trying solutions for software copy protection. For example, we start seeing cases where two DRM solutions (Digital Rights Management) cannot live simultaneously on the same computer. This wasn’t enough that you…