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Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Who Needs Content Protection?

By Rodolfo La Maestra • Nov 19, 10:55pm

The subject of “content protection” continues to be a complicated issue. While some firmly think that one should be able to legally make a copy of lawfully acquired content, if such content is protected to avoid exactly that and the protection is circumvented to perform such copy, how can that action be right when it is actually violating the right of the content creator?

The content production industry needs...

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High Definition Movies Before They Hit Blu-ray? Only if Your HDTV Permits It.

By Rodolfo La Maestra • Jun 17 2008, 11:32am

How would you like to view an HD movie at home via Video-On-Demand (VOD) just a few weeks after its theatrical release, even before it's released on DVD and Blu-ray? Maybe your HDTV connections would not let you do it, despite the fact that you paid for the movie.

On May 9, 2008, the MPAA issued a petition to the FCC for a waiver of the SOC feature...