Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electrical components, is facing a leaked report that states the company abuses its employees. The report also says that the company has been responsible for harsh punishment, illegal labor... More...

Microsoft may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant's June 30 deadline. In yet another sign of the market's resistance to Windows... More...

It seems as if Yahoo, which is currently playing second fiddle to Google in many of their competing offerings including search and online video, just can't get a break these days. Today, congressional investigators have... More...

Developers have discovered that the name given to a Vista executable affects whether or not it will require admin rights to run. Security experts said the feature might seem odd, but helps to catch out... More...

Microsoft said today it will limit the number of machines to which users can transfer the Windows Vista OS licenses, to just one system beyond the original PC. When Windows Vista is available, consumers will... More...

Midway has acquired the rights to some of the titles that make up Epic Games' back catalogue - and plans to release an "Unreal Anthology" this autumn. Priced $29.95 in the US, Unreal Anthology will... More...

Microsoft and the European Commission will clash in court over innovation and intellectual property rights when the software giant appeals against a 2004 anti-trust decision, according to court papers seen by Reuters. Microsoft wants to... More...

Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems is fighting a shareholder action that urges the company to adopt a comprehensive human rights policy for its dealings with the Chinese government, and with other states practicing political censorship... More...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. won another skirmish in what promises to become another protracted war in the courts action against Intel. The company has won a motion to serve document preservation subpoenas against computer makers,... More...

After E3 Microsoft left gamers wondering if they would be able to play their Xbox games on their Xbox360 after refusing to answer questions on it. They did announce though that "the best selling" Xbox... More...

Chertsey, UK , March 7th 2005 –Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company today officially announced plans to co-publish Dead to RightsTMII, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2002 award-winning smash-hit... More...

Judge rules that VU Games is "not authorized" to distribute Valve games in cyber-cafes; other claims, amount of damages remain at issue. This afternoon, Valve released a statement stating its legal complaint... More...

cybershark has reported in our Back Page News that Google, after its Gmail debut, does not hold legal rights to the trademark, yet. Normally, the registrations for trademarks are handled in a "first... More...

Widespread use of Linux and open-source software is an inevitability, but the new programming technique is running into troubles with the important new technology of digital rights management, Hewlett-Packard's top Linux executive said Tuesday. ... More...

A Japanese publisher From Software has acquired rights to the Tenchu series from Activision. They will now be handling the publishing and development of future Tenchu series games. The deal covers the worldwide trademark and... More...

IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in the top 10. IBM calls the prototype systems evidence that its years-long... More...

File swappers concerned about getting in trouble with record labels over illegal downloads may soon have a major new worry: the U.S. Department of Justice. A proposal that the Senate may vote on as early... More...

Since the publication of this article, Rockstar has responded with an emphatic denial of the rumour that the Grand Theft Auto movie rights have been optioned. The rights to create a movie based on the... More...

What do American Pie's Stifler and Soul Calibur's Sophitia have in common? Two words: Warren Zide. According to The Hollywood reporter, the Pie and Final Destination producer has purchased the film rights to Namco's fighting... More...

Overview The Windows Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer provides a way for users of supported Windows operating systems to view, but not alter, files with restricted permission. These restrictions enable authors to prevent... More...

Software vendors seemingly have been slow to back Microsoft's RMS platform. So security vendor Liquid Machines plans to RMS-enable their apps for them. Microsoft's Rights Management technology is coming to a host... More...

Gates's firm supplied technology used to trap Chinese dissidents, says Amnesty Technology sold by Microsoft to the Chinese government has been used by Beijing to censor the internet, and resulted in... More...

Corbis' revenues are up 20 percent, in part due to strong growth in its rights licensing and management services. When Bill Gates founded his second company in 1990, he had an inkling... More...

A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping to stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions... More...

Ubisoft released the promised Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield 1.5 patch yesterday, but they failed to mention their new copy protection scheme. It turns out that Ubisoft implented code into the RVS... More...

Redmond's RMS technology is ready to roll. But so far, the only application making use of it is Office 2003 As Microsoft rolls out its first-generation Windows rights-management service (RMS) designed to... More...

Windows Rights Management Services provide the platform for an organizational rights policy management system. Since this server component is provided as a premium service for Windows Server, a Windows RMS Client Access License (CAL) is... More...

Freelance writer and software developer Eric Wilson has spent a decade supporting, writing about and developing Microsoft platforms. But last week he warned that buyers of Microsoft's Office 2003, released last week, might be breaching... More...

The Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer is a way that Windows users can view files with restricted permission. These restrictions help people to prevent sensitive documents, Web-based information, and e-mail messages from being forwarded,... More...

The Microsoft® Windows® Rights Management (RM) client is required for your computer to run applications that provide functionality based on Windows RM technologies. Installing this client places software on your computer that allows RM-aware applications... More...

Windows Rights Management Services provide the platform for an organizational rights policy management system. Since this server component is provided as a premium service for Windows Server, a Windows RMS Client Access License (CAL) is... More...

Broadband Stakeholder Group calls for greater involvement in pushing adoption of the technology Delays in the adoption of robust digital rights management (DRM) technology is holding up the delivery of content over the internet, the... More...

The Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer is a way that Windows users can view files with restricted permission. These restrictions help people to prevent sensitive documents, Web-based information, and e-mail messages from being forwarded,... More...

THE BIGGEST CHIP company in the known universe has caught a group of 17 artists in American town jeopardising its intellectual property by using the word "inside". A report in the Boston Globe said that... More...

Have you seen it? First series... ok - it was novel. But then we had another... and then the BBC ripped it off... and then they shipped it to the US :( I have a... More...

Due to our little problem the other week we lost this story as well as others, so I have reposted this with the original screenshots as IRM is now active for everyone. ... More...

How music labels, Hollywood studios and consumers answer that question could determine whether the software giant dominates digital media the way it does Web browsers or desktop productivity applications, say analysts. The Redmond, Wash.-based company... More...

Microsoft will be able to keep its hold on the trademark rights for its Windows software for the next several months, but those rights appear to be in some jeopardy in a federal court case... More...

Thanks Dawson for sending this in. Record labels have requested legal support for a variety of techniques intended to thwart file-trading networks that they say infringe on copyrights. During arguments over a congressional bill supporting... More...

Thanks Josh for sending me this. Warner Bros. Pictures is in final negotiations to pick up the feature film rights to id Software Inc.'s video game property "Doom" in a progress-to-production deal that... More...

Some say the classic PC is dead. Certainly if the digital rights management crowd - led by the infamous Redmond crime family, the McSofties, manage to replace the independent PC the computing world will certainly... More...

Following from last weeks news that there would be amendments to bills passed through the UK parliament to allow MI5 to snoop internet traffic, now it has been revealed that there will be more changes... More...

Thanks MxxCon for posting this in our BPN Forum Protecting intellectual property will take cooperation and innovation The brief but dramatic history of Napster and other file-sharing services... More...

Russian programmer Alexander Katalov landed in Moscow a week ago just in time to celebrate his wife's birthday. The flight came at the end of what the ElcomSoft CEO hopes will be... More...

Warp2search are reporting on what could turn out to be something of a trojan horse in the latest Product Use Rights (PUR) version (January). Lets see then.. In the new January... More...

The Register and Slashdot both have this story... Lets see what happens with the DMCA, all hell is gonna break loose. It's an interesting piece of research which will most likely be stomped... More...