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 ...

RealNetworks and Hollywood studios are squaring off today in a U.S. District Court in San Francisco where Judge Marilyn Hall Patel will determine if the program RealDVD violates laws created to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reports are starting to pile up of unhappy encounters with a new copy-protection system that Sony is baking into commercial DVD release and which renders certain discs useless on older DVD players.

A lack of comprehensive of copy protection technology has resulted in movie studios, producers and distributors of video content losing almost $1billion a year in retail revenue, nearly 5 percent of ...

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 ...