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 DVD popularity grew in the 1990s, the Content Scramble System (CSS), a digital rights management scheme, was implemented within the DVD format for protecting DVD media content from piracy. The CSS ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — The Motion Picture Association of America Inc. (MPAA) announced that its member companies have settled a breach of contract lawsuit against Taiwanese DVD chip manufacturer Cheertek ...

In yet another sign that the Hollywood studios are getting more comfortable with the idea of digital distribution for films, the DVD Copy Control Association (CCA) announced changes to the industry’s ...

Perfect DRM is impossible, but it can be effective in the commercial sense--protecting the commercial distribution of copyrighted works against unfair and illegal competition from pirates. Peter N.

Who would have imagined that a 13-year-old kid could compromise an industry standard overnight? But that's what happened in 1999 when Norwegian teen Jon Johansen and two hacker “colleagues” unlocked ...

In his June 22 Fast Forward column ["DVD-Piracy Paranoia Proves Counterproductive," Business] Rob Pegoraro seems to suggest that it is legal to copy prerecorded DVD movies and that the Content ...