ESD10 Materials - Block 2

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Intellectual "Property" in the Digital Age

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Encryption embedded into every DVD and DVD player a number of purposes

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- An End-Run Around Region-Free DVD Players
[1690 hits, 1 votes, Average Rating 0.00] [Added: 10th Jun 2001]
Slashdot; June9, 2001. A discussion of Region Coding Enhancement (RCE), a mechanism that uses the scriptability of DVD players to check a player's region before launching the DVD - so true region free players (i.e. zone 0) will have problems. The discussion goes into the ways in which DVD players actually achieve this, and the work arounds that keep developing. Rate this:

- Brussles to probe cost of DVDs in Europe
[1404 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 11th Jun 2001]
Financial Times; Deborah Hargreaves; June 11, 2001. Rate this:

- DVD Forum to stamp out region-crackable players
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The Register; tony Smith; July 24, 2001. Cracking down on "Zone 0" DVD player production in China Rate this:

- DVD Player Chipsets To Support Windows Media Files
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Slashdot.org; December 12, 2001. A potentially troubling strategy is discussed - what if the movie industry decides that, since CSS is cracked, they switch to Windows Media format files to protect their content? Discussion and links. Rate this:

- EU To Investigate DVD Pricing
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Slashdot; June 10, 2001. Links to a BBC article stating that the EU is planning to investigate DVD pricing and the regional coding system (CSS). Rate this:

- Myths the MPAA is Spreading (about CSS/DVDs)
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OpenDVD.org Rate this:

- Regulator Challenges DVD Zoning
[1993 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 24th May 2001]
Slashdot; May 23, 2001. A discussion of a pending decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to challenge the MPAA's Region Playback Control system - the "zoning" of DVDs and players so that, for example, a US sold DVD cannot be decrypted by an Australian DVD player. Good background Rate this:

- Start-up defends DVD-copying software
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ZDNet News; Lisa M. Bowman; April 23, 2002. "In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath of the movie industry, a small software company is asking a federal judge for permission to sell and market its product for copying DVDs.
... In a complaint filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco, 321 Studios asked the court to declare that its DVD Copy Plus program does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act." Rate this:

- Tweaking Technology to Stay Ahead of the Film Pirates
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New York Times; Matt Lake; August 2, 2001. A description from the "How It Works" series in the regular Circuits section each Thursday - not only the content scrambling system, but also the techniques used in videocassettes, etc. Rate this: