Posts Tagged with ‘dvds’

One of the companies debuting a new product today at the DEMOfall event is RealNetworks which demonstrates a new DVD copying software RealDVD. Priced at $30, the application is intended to make copies of movies from DVDs to PC - claiming to actually do it legally.
The claim is based on the fact that when copying a DVD the software actually creates a secure copy of the entire disk, even preserving the CSS encryption.
It takes 10 to 40 minutes and 4 [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

Picture this. You’re at home, inside an Internet café, or library laced with WiFi, and you hear – through an email notification, an IM, etc. – that there’s a concert going on someplace. It’d be great if you could see it live. But you can’t, for a myriad of reasons. Would you then opt for a virtual sit-in of sorts?
Some businesses, many of which sprouted due to the success of the Web experiment that placed the worldwide Live 8 [...]