Posts from — August 2004

The Norwegian hacker famous for cracking DVD encryption says he has cracked Apple AirPort Express. Jon Lech Johansen has revealed the public key that Apple AirPort Express, a wireless networking protocol, uses to encrypt music sent between iTunes and a wireless base station.

Source: CNet

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• Microsoft & Viodentia Play Cat & Mouse with DRM-Circumvention Tool FairUse4WM (September 14, 2006)
• Hymn is Back with QTFairUse in an Ongoing Tit-for-Tat with Apple Over iTunes DRM (September 13, 2006)
• Microsoft's PlayForSure DRM Successfully Hacked (August 25, 2006)
• iTunes Locks out DRM-Free Purchases - Breaks PyMusique (March 21, 2005)
• Apple Brings Discord to Hymn (January 13, 2005)
• Apple Blocks Music Sales to Older iTunes - Forces Upgrade to Copy-Degraded Version (November 3, 2004)
• Hacker Takes Bite out of Apple's iTunes (August 12, 2004)
• Is Real's Hacking of iPod Legal? (July 30, 2004)
• RealNetworks Breaks Apple's Hold on iPod (July 26, 2004)
• iTunes DRM Cracked Wide Open for GNU/Linux (January 25, 2004)

Categories: DRM Arms Race, DRM Circumvention

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The settlement, announced Tuesday, concludes more than two years of courtroom wrestling over the legality of 321’s DVD-copying software, which ultimately led federal judges in New York and California to order the product removed from store shelves.
Source: CNet

Categories: BigMedia v NewTech, DRM Circumvention, Settlements

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Text of Decision - HTML Version
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc., unlike the original Napster, were not liable because they don’t have central servers pointing users to copyright material.

Note: This decision was ultimately overtuned by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27, 2005. See related stories posted on June 27, 2005.

Sources: MSNBC | Tech Law Journal

Related Posts:

• One Year After Grokster Decision: File Sharing Continues Unabated (June 27, 2006)
• Grokster Shuttered in Court Settlement (November 7, 2005)
• U.S. Supreme Court Finds Grokster Liable (June 27, 2005)
• Grokster & Streamcast Win Major Court Victory (August 9, 2004)

Categories: BigMedia v P2P Providers, Decisions

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In a 5-0 vote, the commission said TiVoGuard and the other copyright control technologies approved Wednesday adhere to the “broadcast flag” copyright protection regulations the FCC approved last year.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Categories: BigMedia v NewTech, Broadcast Flag, Digital TV, FCC, New Business Models

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