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DVD CSS Encryption Cracked Again; This Time with Seven Lines of Code
WinInfo - Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students, Kevin Winstein and Marc Horowitz, have published seven lines of code that can crack the Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption code, commonly used to protect multimedia DVDs. The students

HD DVD to carry unwelcome DVD baggage
Ars Technica - Perhaps capitulating to studio pressure, the DVD Forum has moved to burden the next-generation HD DVD format with region coding similar to that of its predecessor. Called Region Protection Coding, the new specification will function in much the same

Court Sets Precedent by Ruling That Trade Secrets Outweigh Free Speech
WinInfo - In a stunning blow to the US Constitutional guarantee of free speech that has ramifications in the technical community, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that protecting trade secrets outweighs free speech. Specifically, the court found

Humorix | DeCSS Really Is Terrorware!
DeCSS is almost as dangerous as Windows. If I read the DeCSS source code in a forest, would it make a copyrightable sound?

Freedom to Tinker Blog Archive DVDCCA v. Bunner in California
DVDCCA, which is basically the movie industry, sued Andrew Bunner for re-publishing the DeCSS program on his web site. DeCSS, you may recall, is a program for decrypting DVDs.

What is DeCSS? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer
This page describes the term DeCSS and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information.

Openlaw/DVD: DeCSS
Where can you find DeCSS? Worldwide mirror lists collected at http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/ : mirrors at .com domains; mirrors at .org domains; mirrors at .net domains; mirrors at .edu domains

California Supremes Hear DeCSS Case
California Supremes Hear DeCSS Case. Kevin Poulsen , SecurityFocus 2003-05-29. SAN FRANCISCO–California’s Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a case that pits the motion picture industry

Agere and Freescale are early core adopters
Electronics Talk - Note: Readers of the Editor s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. Send us a blank email now to join the circulation . It s free! StarCore has named Agere Systems and Freescale as licensees for the all new

Breaking the PC/TV Barrier
Red Herring - It may be the last frontier in home entertainment, but an Internet startup and a TV upstart are lining up the wagons to begin the journey across the nominal last 10 feet in America s living rooms separating the TV set from the home computer

Hauppauge follow Sony with LocationFree TV offering
Pocket-Link.co.uk - 10 May 2006 - Hauppauge Digital is the latest company to offer location free TV watching with its new service, Orb.com. The company has introduced mobile TV capabilities for its range of PVR products this week. Owners with a wireless PDA, mobile

New Google Video Ad Product Prompts Questions
ClickZ - When Google twitches, the ad industry leaps. So, since the firm announced its new AdSense video ad offering Monday, it’s gotten people talking and contemplating its potential effect on the interactive ad world. Most seem to agree on one thing

Flix Pro Flash Video encoder adds chroma keying, more
Mac Central - On2 Technologies has announced the release of Flix Pro 8.5, a new version of their Flash Video encoding software for Mac OS X and Windows. A free update for Flix Pro 8.x users, Flix Pro 8.5 can be purchased for $249, or bundled as part of On2 Flix

AMD Gives Boost to Mobile Processors
NewsFactor Network - “Dual-core technology is becoming critical as the popularity of digital media grows among consumers and people need to manage MP3 files, digital video recordings, and pictures,” said Matt Mazzantini, AMD’s marketing manager for mobile processors

What’s new on DVD? What’s old on TV 
In ancient times B.C. before cable TV series were free. Now people pay millions to collect them.

“Blade Runner” replicated on DVD again 
Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” one of the first movies to appear on DVD in 1997, is being restored and remastered for a brief reissue in September.

LG announces 4X Blu-Ray recorder
The hardware company LG has been making strides to incoporate it’s brand into just about everything in our daily lives. From cellular phones to refrigerators, LG seems to have a grasp on making things..

Fil’s FAQ-Link-In Corner: MacroVision FAQ
HTML-ized FAQs that I need to link to. LOTS of electronics/life related FAQs.

Route IFO - DVD Backup Guides
One-click” DVDs merging; Insert chapter into DVD movie keeping menus; Remove language or aspect ratio menu ; Soon to Come. Backing up ARccOS protected DVD’s. Joining a split DVD

arccos
arccos. Return inverse cosine. Declaration. Source position: math.pp line 246

Easier DVD Copying - ARccOS and other copy protection - Digital Video
Easier DVD Copying - ARccOS and other copy protection DVD95Copy

Inverse Functions (Trig without Tears Part 9)
For instance, arccos 0.6 becomes the angle whose cosine is 0.6 . Principal Values. What is arcsin (0.5)? You probably recognize that 0.5 is ½, and it must be a sine of one of the special

DVD Region+CSS Free -> History | Software - Digital Digest
Improved “Sony ARccOS protection” detection and removal engine. New: Added removal of fake VTS and PGC automatically. New: Added support for a new Sony ARccOS protection as found on “Nua Doi Huong

MPAA accused of hiring a hacker
CNET News - A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses the Motion Picture Association of America of hiring a hacker to steal information from a company that the MPAA has accused of helping copyright violators. The lawsuit ( click for PDF ), filed in U.S. District Court

X-Men make a thrilling ‘Last Stand’ in series’ 3rd installment
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - Stars: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer. Director: Brett Ratner. The skinny: *** (of 4 stars). The buzz: Wall-to-wall superhero action sure to please fans. MPAA rating: PG-13

Company: Studios hired hacker to spy
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - LOS ANGELES - A company accused of aiding movie pirates says the group that represents Hollywood studios hired a computer hacker to spy on it. Valence Media, which operates the Web site www.torrentspy.com, was sued in February by several movie

Modulus Video Extends Engineering Leadership 
Responding to rapidly growing demand for its MPEG-4 AVC video encoding systems, Modulus Video, Inc. announced two executive appointments that extend the company’s acknowledged technical leadership.

New Google Video Ad Product Prompts Questions 
Industry insiders weigh in on the new AdSense video ad offering.

AMD Delivers Multi-Tasking Performance On-the-Go with First 64-Bit Dual-Core Mobile Processor 
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—-May 17, 2006–AMD today introduced AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology, the first and only family of 64-bit dual-core processors designed for thin and light notebook PCs.

Aero 325 Assignment 7 Solutions (PDF)
… [(2p 1) arccos(1 2p) + sin(arccos(1 2p))] + m(2p 1) … Now from trigonometry it is straightforward to verify that sin(arccos(1 2p)) = 2 …

PSL2 plugin ver 2.14 for PgcEdit - A Short Guide - Digital Video Forums
… How to backup ARccOS_ protected DVDs with DVD Decrypter … that serves to help you backup certain Sony DADC’s ARccOS_ protected DVDs that DVD Decrypter version 3.5.4.0 can’t …

ARccOS help - Newbie Forum - Club CD Freaks
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Delphi Basics : ArcCos command
… ArcCos. The Arc Cosine of a number, returned in radians … The ArcCos function is a mathematical function giving the value in radians of the Arc Cosine of Number …

Any DVD + Arccos Copy Protection + LG Burners 4120 4160 4163 - AnyDVD - Club CD Freaks
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