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Alcatel - “We Invented The MP3″ Microsoft to Pay $1.5 Billion.

By Ian on 23:02:07 | Industry News, Legal | Permalink | No comments yet

Microsoft lost a battle today in the ongoing war between themselves and Alcatel-Lucent over the patent infingement issues stemming from the use of the MP3 file format in media players such as Windows Media Player. Microsoft is really only the tip of the iceberg. Since the format is used in the vast majority of other […]

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

By Victor on 13:02:07 | Digital Media, Legal | Permalink | Comments are off for this post

Digital Rights Management or DRM is a term which includes various technologies which publishers or copyright owners use in order to control the access and the ways in which you use data such as an mp3 file or hardware such as an iPod. It is a form of copy protection basically so companies can keep […]