Haihaisoft DRM-X launched new lightweight ActiveX Player with streaming support
April 14. 2008
Haihaisoft, a global leader in digital rights management industry, delivered more than 70,000,000 licenses worldwide. Haihaisoft provides DRM service for more than 1000 organizations. Haihaisoft announced that the new DRM-X platform added new lightweight ActiveX player and enables playing protected streaming content. Learn more
YouTube boosts video quality
March 25. 2008
YouTube is now offering many videos in a higher quality format, and letting users decide if they want the higher quality versions. The offering is dependent on the source material uploaded to YouTube, and is not restricted to partner content. “We are especially excited about offering this upgrade in video quality to our community of filmmakers and animators, who have been requesting this feature for some time”. To help support the initiative, uploads of up to 1 GB are now supported. Learn more
Tech File: Inconvenient flaws of digital convergence
March 19. 2008
ITUNES USERS MAY COPY A DVD BUT ONLY TO APPLE'S DEVICES; HULU, FANCAST ARE LIMITED BY WEB CONNECTION. Learn more
Steve Jobs rescues freetards from BBC iPlayer wilderness (for now)
March 17. 2008
Enterprising Linux hackers have built a new way to download BBC iPlayer programmes that lets online viewers store shows indefinitely - and it's all thanks to Steve Jobs.Learn more
Apple sued over iPod and iTunes technology, again
March 17. 2008
Everyone's favorite company to sue is listed in yet another lawsuit, this time over the very foundation of the iPod and iTunes combination. This is one of 20 lawsuits filed against Apple in recent months. These lawsuits claim everything from a prison inmate that was or will be sexually harassed "with Apple gadgets" to patent infringment on a "Method for Operating an Electronic Device Using a Pointing Device." Seems like everyone is trying to get some piece of Apple's pie. Learn more
This week in PDF: New security service launched
March 7. 2008
This week in PDF has seen the release of a high-security publishing and distribution service, along with major updates to a digital rights management (DRM) solution and a web-based PDF data capture system.
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Haihaisoft announces DRM for PDF with Haihaisoft PDF Reader and DRM-X PDF Packager
March 4. 2008
Haihaisoft today will bolster its "The World's Most Powerful DRM Platform" with the support of protecting PDF documents. DRM-X becomes more powerful now. It is the world’s first DRM platform which can support the world's 3 software giants' format: Microsoft Windows Media, RealNetworks Real Media, and Adobe Flash Video and PDF file format. Learn more
DRM-X: The World's Most Powerful On-Demand DRM Service
January 3. 2008
Haihaisoft DRM-X provides the unique, cost-effective and highly secure on-demand DRM service that you can easily protect, publish, sell Audio/Video and documents. It gives you total control over who accesses your digital content
and under what terms, enabling you to increase revenue, bring products to market faster, and attract new customers.
With Haihaisoft DRM-X revolutionary technology, it supports the most popular media formats, such as, Windows Media (WMA, WMV, and ASF), Real Media (RM, RMVB), Flash Video (FLV), AVI media, and PDF document. It is the first DRM platform which can support the world's 3 software giant's format: Microsoft Windows Media, RealNetworks Real Media, and Adobe Flash Video and PDF file format.Learn more
Fox, Apple and FairPlay
January 3. 2008
Studio executives keep saying they've learned from the mistakes made by the music industry, and yet many of their actions seem straight out of the major labels' playbook. Today, the Financial Times reported that 20th Century Fox's home video unit, Fox Home Entertainment, had agreed to offer new titles for rent through Apple's iTunes store and sell DVDs with an extra copy of the movie locked in Apple's proprietary FairPlay DRM. If the latter proves to be true (no mention of it in the NYT piece), it means the movie industry may be on its way to the same DRM incompatibility problem that has vexed the music industry. Learn more
Apple and Fox Set to Announce Movie Rental Deal
January 3. 2008
Apple and Twentieth Century Fox are about to announce a deal that will allow users to rent Fox movies over iTunes. The deal will allow people to download movies that will only play for a limited amount of time. Pali Research analyst Stacey Widlitz said the deal follows a trend of Hollywood studios selling directly to consumers and cutting out the middleman. It's just a sign the studios feel ... that another distribution channel is where they are choosing to go, and incrementally it hurts Blockbuster and Netflix. Learn more
Warner Music Group Joins Amazon's DRM-Free Download Store
January 3. 2008
On December 27, Amazon.com and Warner Music Group announced that WMG's entire 2.9 million-song catalog would be available on Amazon's DRM-free, à la carte MP3 store—the first time the entire Warner catalog has been available online and the first time it has been offered sans DRM. Learn more
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