DRM (Digital Rights Management) News

NDS Selects Cinea's Running Marks Watermarking Technology for Integration with Its Conditional Access and DRM Solutions
Aug 28, 2007 – Cinea, a Dolby (NYSE: DLB) subsidiary, has announced that NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has licensed the company's forensic watermarking technology for use with its extensive product line of conditional access and digital rights management solutions for video-on-demand (VOD) and live broadcast.
News categories: Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Software, Watermarking

Verimatrix Dramatically Expands Technology Roadmap for Content Security at IBC 2007
Aug 20, 2007 – Cost-Effective, Robust VCAS Solutions Extended from IPTV to Hybrid, Cable and Mobile Networks. Verimatrix technology demonstrations at IBC 2007.
News categories: Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IBCShow, IPTV, Mobile, Satellite, Software, Terrestrial, Watermarking

SecureMedia Enters New Phase of Growth with Acquisition by Cavalier Telephone and TV
Aug 17, 2007 – SecureMedia, the industry leader and most experienced source for digital media protection is now the strongest, financially and strategically, having been acquired by Cavalier Telephone and TV, the largest full-service competitive communications provider in the United States.
News categories: SecureMedia, Cavalier Telephone, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, MandA, USA

NDS at IBC 07: Bringing Convergence Home
Aug 14, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that at this year's IBC it will showcase a full range of solutions geared to helping TV service providers enable convergence and capitalize on the business opportunities it presents.
News categories: NDS Group, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Software, Tablet

S3 Supports OMA BCast Mobile TV Security with Discretix
Jul 30, 2007 – Discretix and Silicon & Software Systems (S3) have announced that Discretix' multi-scheme mobile TV security client is being integrated into S3's onHandTV™ mobile interactive Digital TV (DTV) client.
News categories: CAM, Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Mobile

Japan - Govt panel to submit plan for easing TV show recording rules
Jul 8, 2007 – The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will ask TV stations and copyright organizations to ease dubbing restrictions to allow DVD recorders to record digital TV programs nine times instead of once, according to ministry officials. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder

Free Software Foundation Releases GPL v.3
Jul 5, 2007 – The Free Software Foundation (FSF) last Friday released Version 3 of the GNU General Public License. One of the most controversial aspects of GPL v.3 has been the ideological stance of the license's authors against DRM.
News categories: Free Software Foundation (FSF), Digital TV, DRM, Licensing

DMX Launches WinCE-based Digital Video Middleware Client Release
Jun 19, 2007 – DMX Technologies has announced the launch of Microsoft Windows CE based Vision TV client by it subsidiary, BEE MediaSoft. Vision TV is a TV middleware developed by BEE and runs on Windows CE based set-top boxes.
News categories: BEE MediaSoft, DMX Technologies, Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

SecureMedia Integrated With Motorola's Family of IP-based Set-tops
Jun 6, 2007 – SecureMedia has announced integration of SecureMedia’s Encryptonite ONE(TM) System CA/DRM (conditional access/digital rights management) software solution with the Motorola VIP series of IP Set-tops. More …
News categories: Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Set Top Box