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DIGITAL ASSETS REASSEMBLED FOR BETTER USE A FEW YEARS BACK, CNN EXECUTIVES MET TO DISCUSS THE future of many thousands of hours of archived video footage capturing some of the […]

ISP, CONTENT OWNERS CLASH POLICING COPYRIGHTS BECAUSE OF AN AMBIGUITY IN A 1998 COPYRIGHT law, Internet service providers are at loggerheads with copyright owners over the extent to which they […]

IMPROVING THE WEB, TWO BITS AT A TIME WHEN A PIECE OF E-MAIL WHIZZES ACROSS THE INTERNET, IT DOESN'T TRAVEL in one piece; it is broken into a bunch of […]

When it comes to promoting optical networking technology, companies -- and the writers who report on them -- just can't resist tossing in references to the speed of light. Do […]

A HIGH-STAKES BATTLE OVER A KEY technology for managing the distribution of digital content has been launched, and the first volley is InterTrust Technologies' lawsuit against Microsoft for patent infringement. […]

CHAINCAST'S CHEAPER STREAMING JOINING THE FRENZY FOR ALL THINGS peer-to-peer, ChainCast Networks officially unveiled its streaming technology last week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. ChainCast's […]

NEW PROTOCOL MAKES MULTICASTING EASIER AS BANDWIDTH-HOGGING MULTIMEDIA TRAFFIC SWARMS over the Internet, multicast -- a technology designed to reduce Internet congestion -- is undergoing a transformation that will make […]

MPEG-4 GAINS SUPPORT AS ALTERNATIVE TO PROPRIETARY FORMATS WHEN REALNETWORKS ANNOUNCED EARLIER THIS MONTH that it was starting MusicNet, a music subscription service, as a joint venture with three major […]

START-UP DIGITAL FOUNTAIN TODAY WILL introduce its first products: servers enabling efficient distribution of rich content, such as multimedia, over the Internet. In addition to selling its servers directly, the […]

WHILE THE BIG RECORD LABELS AND LEADing online companies strike nearly a deal per day for e-music delivery services, traditional CD retailers suspect they're getting purposely cut out of the […]

PRINT-ON-DEMAND COULD BE PUBLISHING'S FUTURE A FEW YEARS BACK, E-BOOKS LOOKED AS THOUGH THEY WOULD TAKE THE market by storm. The grand promise was that the low cost of publishing […]

INTERNET BROADCASTER RADIO FREE VIRGIN plans to announce today that its users can now click on a record button to save copies of songs onto their computers. Radio Free Virgin […]

ENTERTAINMENT AND ELECTRONICS DIVISIONS CLASH SONY CORP. OF AMERICA IS STUMBLING over its own big feet. The media behemoth is the umbrella for both Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Electronics […]

PREVIOUSLY STATIC PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT FILES ARE FINDING A NEW ROLE on the Internet. An electronic forms suite announced last week by Cardiff Software enables users to fill out, sign, […]

WHILE OBSERVERS WERE QUICK TO PREDICT the demise of Napster after last week's preliminary injunction, the terms could have been a lot worse for the music swapping service. Unlike the […]

NAPSTER USERS OVER THE WEEKEND MAY have found themselves unable to trade music, as the service began blocking access to thousands of copyrighted songs. After a court hearing in San […]

NAPSTER RULING FELT ELSEWHERE THIS MONTH'S ANTI-NAPSTER APPELLATE court ruling struck a sour note for many businesses interested in new technologies. The legal precedent will affect the ability of consumer […]

Record giants hold the licensing baton THE MUSIC LOVER'S DREAM OF A DIGITAL 'CELESTIAL JUKEBOX' HAS turned into an entrepreneur's nightmare, and critics maintain major record companies are to blame. […]

CRITICISM SURROUNDS SDMI'S SECURITY CHALLENGE A HACKING CHALLENGE, SPONSORED BY THE MUSIC RECORDING INDUSTRY, IS DRAWING fire from academic researchers who feel the ballyhooed contest was as much a public […]

GRACENOTE SPINS BEYOND CDs SLIP YOUR FAVORITE CD INTO YOUR COMPUTER. If your CD software works like most, it will almost instantly display the title and artist of the CD, […]

WHY SECURE DIGITAL MEDIA FLUNKS THE VENDORS OF DIGITAL RIGHTS MANagement technology have been taught an old and painful lesson: The customer is always right. In the pre-Napster era, digital […]

REALNETWORKS UPGRADES STREAMING MEDIA SOFTWARE REALNETWORKS WILL RELEASE A NEW VERSION OF ITS STREAMING MEDIA SOFTWARE this week that represents a substantial departure from earlier versions of the infrastructure software […]

MP3.COM'S LICENSING DEALS SET COSTLY PRECEDENT IN THE WAKE OF MP3.-com's costly legal battles with the recording and publishing industries, Internet music companies are saying they, too, are paying a […]

WHILE STREAMING VIDEO IS BECOMING A FUNDAMENTAL component of media sites, encoding it and distributing it can be awkward, to say the least. Start-up Telestream, near Nevada City, Calif., hopes […]

New paradigms for computing and data security JONATHAN DOWLING KNEW HIS RESEARCH WAS INTERESTING. HE JUST DIDN'T REALIZE how interesting until government intelligence officials tracked him down. The call came […]

AT FIRST GLANCE, IT SEEMS LIKE THE ONLINE ENTERTAINment industry should be dancing in the streets. Napster, with its phenomenal base of 38 million users, has demonstrated to one and […]

NAPSTER'S ALLIANCE WITH BERTELSMANN could finally give the beleaguered music service something it's been lacking: a business model. But as it works with the German media conglomerate on ways to […]

IF NAPSTER IS A CYBER-RECORD STORE, then a new service launched just this month is a cyberjukebox. The service, developed by Canadian start-up iNoize.com, lets broadband users stream -- but […]

WEIGHING THE RIGHTS OF COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AGAINST CONSUMERS' FAIR USE RIGHTS IS TRICKY ERIC CORLEY, AKA EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN, HACKER EXTRAORdinaire, is an unlikely poster child for a legal crusade. Yet […]

Reports on the conflict between offline and online retailers of music compact discs over customer purchasing data in the United States. Reason for the dispute; Implication of the conflict.

Discusses the lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) against hacker magazine `2600' and its publisher, Eric Corley, for distributing and linking to information about DeCSS, software that decrypts digital video disc (DVD) movies. One ramification of the case; What lawyers for the MPAA and the U.S. Department of Justice maintained; Comments from Judge Jon Newman about the movie industry's DVD protection scheme.

Profiles Jonathan Potter, founder and executive of Digital Media Association (DiMA). Growth of Potter's lobbying group; Main adversary of DiMA; Background of Potter with copyright law and technology policy.

Profiles Jenny Toomey, executive director for Coalition for the Future of Music. Factors that drive Toomey to put her own record label; Role of Toomey in forming the organization; First big project of the coalition.

Provides information on Andreas Schmidt, president and chief executive officer of Bertelsmann's e-Commerce Group. Information on his achievements; Challenges being encountered by Schmidt.

Provides information on Hilary Rosen, president and chief executive officer of the Recording Industry Association of America. Legal decisions that may affect the company's business strategy; Her role in the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

Provides information on the Internet Streaming Media Alliance formed by several Internet companies in the United States. Purpose of the alliance; Competition in the streaming media market; Views of RealNetworks and Microsoft about the alliance.

Deals with the concern raised by several executives on the commitment of United States President George W. Bush to technology. Implication of the budget proposal of President Bush which eliminate the funding for the Advanced Technology Program (ATP); Nominations made by Bush that are related to technology.