The windowing system has already come under pressure amid plummeting DVD sales and rising digital piracy.
One of the biggest problems for News Corporation's film- and television-production business is digital piracy.
Since the IPI estimate precedes the rise of digital piracy, Mr. Giovanetti said he wants to refresh them.
Though the MPAA may not be able to stop DeCSS, there are other issues at stake that are unrelated to digital piracy.
BitTorrent, a company whose name has long meant digital piracy to content owners, now wants to be the online media industry's humble servant.
Were it not the time of year for high-profile action movie releases, you might have been led to believe that digital piracy of motion pictures was a new thing.
There, a select security committee representing both hardware and film makers has an extremely rare opportunity to stop digital piracy from doing to movies what it did to music.
The increase in yearly album sales, as measured in units, was only the second such increase since 2000, just before digital piracy and other problems began eroding the music market.
When the subject turned to digital piracy, Gaiman said he no longer concerned himself with it, having noticed that sales of his books in Russia increased the more that they were pirated there.
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Digital piracy has been a cause of major concern for labels since Napster became ubiquitous, so the emergence of an unauthorized vinyl version of a major label album might not seem like a big deal by comparison.
The site's disappearance provides a dividing line for a before-and-after study, but that study can't comment on the effect of other digital-piracy sources or on the impact of DVD piracy, and it is silent on piracy in countries where sales data weren't available or Megaupload wasn't popular.
Apart from music, movies and television based entertainment fell prey to digital downloading and piracy.
Contrary to popular belief, Gamestop may not be as vulnerable as some of its competitors to digital downloading and online piracy.
However, high rates of piracy on both digital and physical products make it very difficult for a label to discover steady revenue streams.
They include a dispute with Washington-based patent portfolio owner SoftVault Systems, which alleges RIM has infringed its anti-piracy DRM (digital rights management) technologies.
Blige through the iTunes music store or other big online sellers, the songs come with an invisible piracy shield called Digital Rights Management - DRM.
Measures to combat piracy outlined in the Digital Economy Act have been slow to come into effect.
They are reluctant adherents to digital, partly for fear of piracy.
The advent of the internet and more powerful computing that made online piracy possible also made possible legal digital distribution.
Digital rights management is designed to protect content from piracy but it also limits how and who uses the material.
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Take the money you were planning to use on crafting this DRM, and invest it into developing a digital distribution method that is easier to use than piracy.
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Meanwhile, as David Young, the boss of Hachette Book Group, points out, publishers are incurring new costs in the form of investment in systems to store and distribute digital texts, as well as to protect them from piracy.
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The point of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was to protect content holders and prevent piracy.
Roger Ebert argues that piracy will either slow or halt the momentum of digital cinema altogether, comparing it to what is happening with music.
New digital technology brings new opportunities as well as the threat of online piracy.
Suddenly, an industry terrified of online piracy had a legitimate place to earn money from the sale of digital music.
That's when a U.S. federal appeals court overturned government rules that would have forced electronics manufacturers to build anti-piracy devices--known as Broadcast Flags--into many digital televisions, video recorders and other devices.
The digitization of legal and illegal consumption of film means sales and piracy both are easier to track, with much of the activity creating a digital trail.
His latest act as digital impresario came about almost by accident, just before the music industry was upended by online piracy and fragmentation.
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Another project: Dow is working with makers of digital videodisks and CDs in the music and software industries to produce a polymer that can help prevent piracy.
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