BRUSSELS -- A court in Finland has ruled that the Content Scrambling System (CSS) computer code, which unlocks DVD movies, is "ineffective" as a form of digital rights management (DRM). By Leo ...

As a result of a copy-protection secret being made public, individuals who posted instructions on the Internet that outlined how to use software to break DVD copy protection are off the hook after a ...

How should schools and universities make copies of DVDs for use in the classroom and scholarship? If you ask the DVD Copy Control Association, educators can just point a smartphone at the TV, or use ...

Macrovision on Tuesday released a new DVD copy-protection technology in hopes of substantially broadening its role in Hollywood's antipiracy effort. The content-protection company is pointing to the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Macrovision released a new DVD copy-protection technology that it hopes will substantially ...

The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Authority (the dudes in charge of HD DVD copy protection measures) has confirmed that the security measures of certain HD DVDs has been cracked. The ...

Forgive me if I come across as being a bit cynical here, but you had to know this was coming. It seems that the first generation software HD DVD and Blu-Ray software players allow users to take ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Another blow to those concerned with content protection and piracy in the HD realm came last week ...

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SlySoft was recently honoured by AACS-LA, being declared as public enemy number one in the ongoing battle for copyright protection. To prove them right and to take on the challenge, SlySoft has just ...

A computer hacker claims to have broken the advanced access content system (AACS) encryption specification used to control unauthorized copying on HD-DVD and Blu-ray video players. The hacker, who ...