This paper presents an overview of DVD's Contents Scrambling System. The purpose of this overview is to then construct an attack tree [14] of the attacks used, which could be used for developing a tool to test other proprietary unknown encryption algorithms. The CSS was put in place to prevent...
Muslix64 may become the "DVD Jon" of the hi-def era. That would be Jon Johansen, the then-16-year-old Norwegian hacker who in 1998 was the first to publish DeCSS, a few lines of computer code that effectively circumvented the copy-protection on DVDs. ...
John Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker responsible for breaking DVD encryption software, has cracked Microsoft's Windows Media Player WMP security, allowing streamed content to be moved to alternative devices on multiple platforms. This follows successful efforts by Johansen in 2004 and 2005 to...
This article provides one example of social informatics research, highlighting how the social contexts of information and communications technologies ICTs shape their ongoing use. As explained by other authors in this section, social informatics researchers view ICTs as embedded in complex and diffuse webs of technology, institutions and people. Further,...
THE Norwegian who drew the ire of Hollywood by breaking the encryption code for DVDs has devised a program to circumvent the anti-piracy system for Apple's iTunes music download service. The program, called PyMusique, makes it possible for users to use iTunes on ...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * It took Macrovision six years to come up with RipGuard, a system that thwarts DVD-ripping software. * But RipGuard will only protect for so long, and once hackers find a way around it, the DVDs...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Combination of Macrovision Analog Copy Protection and RipGuard DVD creates world's first analog and digital DVD content protection solution MacrovisionR Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN), the world's leading supplier of content and software value management solutions, today announced the worldwide availability of RipGuard DVDTM a digital rip-control...
Perhaps I have a weakness for lost causes, or maybe I'm just ashamed of myself. But I must admit I felt a twinge of guilt in late February when the Northern District Court of California brought the hammer down on 321 Studios, forcing them...
Embattled software firm 321 Studios got slammed from both coasts in late February, with U.S. district court judges in California and New York ruling that the St. Louis company had to stop producing and marketing its DVD X Copy software. Both judges found in...
NOTED: A federal court in New York last week granted preliminary injunctions for Paramount and Fox to order DVD Copy X-maker 321 Studios to stop distributing products that violate the DMCA. After a similar Northern California ruling last month, 321 said it will continue to sell ...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * No one knows how many consumers rent DVDs, rip them at home and end up with a permanent copy for $3-$4. But the more widely available ripping software becomes, the more the problem will grow. ...
* The DVD Copy Control Association has filed suit against 321 Studios, charging the producer of the DVD X Copy line of software products with violating DVD-CCA's patents related to the CSS encryption code used on DVDs. The suit was filed in federal district court in...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Recent developments in California and Norway demonstrate that the studios' anti-piracy legal strategy is in trouble. * It has become clear that merely "adequate" encryption, coupled with legal setbacks around the world, has raised the...
The young Norwegian who became a hackers' hero for cracking security codes on DVDs will seek compensation after twice being acquitted of computer piracy, his lawyer said yesterday. At the age of 15, Jon Lech Johansen, now 20, wrote a program called DeCSS that broke the security codes on DVD...
WASHINGTON -- The DVD Copy Control Association, the licensing agency for the CSS encryption system used on DVDs, has dropped its 4-year-old trade secrets lawsuit against a California man who posted the decryption program DeCSS on his Web site. The decision ends one front in the...
* In another setback for the music and movie industries, a Norwegian appeals court said Jon Johansen, 20, had not broken any laws when he created the DeCSS program for cracking DVD encryption code. The case marks the first effort to go after DVD hackers using criminal...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-5 January 2004-Norwegian police cancel plans to continue case against Jon Lech JohansenC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The financial crimes division of the Norwegian police has decided not to appeal a Norwegian court's decision to free Jon Lech Johansen, the developer of the DeCSS program. ...
OSLO, Norway -- Dealing another blow to the entertainment industry, an appeals court Monday upheld the acquittal of a Norwegian man charged with piracy for releasing a program that could crack DVD security codes. Prosecutors had appealed Jon Lech Johansen's January acquittal of charges he violated...
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-22 December 2003-Norwegian man accused of piracy over DVD-copying program wins appealC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Prosecutors have lost an appeal against the acquittal of a Norwegian man who was accused of violating copyright laws by releasing a computer program capable of cracking DVD security codes....
OSLO AFP — A Norwegian who drew the ire of the Hollywood movie industry by breaking the encryption code for DVDs and whom it accused of enabling criminals to infringe copyright laws was acquitted by an Oslo appeals court. Jon Lech Johansen, 20, known in cyberspace...
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