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Loudeye Corp. said today it is closing its anti-piracy unit, Overpeer, Inc., in an effort to cut costs. Overpeer is best known for polluting P2P networks with garbled digital files. For what it’s worth, the Internet filter at CMP Media, where I work, blocks Overpeer’s site as ’spyware.’
Panasonic has modified its existing pilot production line for single-layer Blu-ray Discs, called BD-ROM, so that it is able to replicate dual-layer BD-ROM discs with 50GB of storage capacity. The doubling of BD-ROM disc storage capacity is enabled by spin coating technologies developed by Panasonic that create two recorded layers on a single side of a Blu-ray Disc. In the process, readily available inexpensive UV curable resins are used in the creation of the space layer, cover layer and hard-coat, resulting in a reduction in disc replication costs. “Working closely with the movie studios and our replication partners, Panasonic was able to foresee the need for greater disc capacity to give consumers a much richer user experience,” said Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, director of Strategy & Alliances, Panasonic Hollywood Lab. Panasonic expects to provide sample dual-layer BD-ROM discs to the industry for testing by the end of this month.
Sony BMG is being caught up in a row about more of its anti-piracy software.
Digital rights groups warned the music maker about vulnerabilities its MediaMax copy protection system created on users’ PCs.
The same groups have now found that a patch Sony produced to close these holes is itself insecure and leaves users open to a separate attack.
The MediaMax system has been used on more than 5.7 million CDS spread across 50 titles sold in the US and Canada.
HTML isn’t a very good language for making Web pages. However, it has been a very good language for making the Web. This article examines the future of HTML and what it will mean to Web authors, browser and developers. It covers the incremental approach embodied by the WHATWG specifications and the radical cleanup of XHTML proposed by the W3C. Additionally, the author gives an overview of the W3C’s new Rich Client Activity.
Every security savvy professional lives with the daily fear of the “never expiring password” being exposed. It’s the unspoken taboo, the wide open back door in every corporate network. But no-one ever acknowledges it or discusses it. All applications have got pre-defined passwords that never change. Which means developers, privileged users and hosting third party service providers will all have access to these passwords.