The internet watchdog was set up by the government in 2008 to teach children about web dangers, target harmful net content and establish a code of conduct for sites featuring material uploaded by users.
In addition to music options, the IS9181 also offers localized weather (based on zip code) and personalized horoscope content, as well as a full color LCD for easy viewing.
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Now that Digg has caved to its users and allowed them to post the code, attorney Gregory Rutchik of the San Francisco-based Arts and Technology Law Group says the site could be sued by the AACS. "Giving someone code that expressly instructs how to steal content is infringing, " Rutchik says, pointing to the 2600 case as a precedent.
On May 1, someone posted the code, which allows software developers to copy content from high-definition discs, to the social news portal Digg.com.
The APIs are structured in such a way that well-implemented code will collect valuable information about how the content is used as a side effect of educators, parents, and others simply doing their daily work.
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Under the existing Content Scrambling System, electronics makers install the exact same encryption code into nearly every DVD player.
In game console terms, DRM is a code that allows users to access a game's content.
"The site didn't change a bit, not one line of code, not the format, not the editing of the content, " Euston says.
But the search giant admits that since 2007, it has also been collecting content data from unsecured networks, a result, it says, of accidentally implementing experimental code that a developer created in 2006.
And Digg, like many other sites that revealed the HD-DVD code, has already been sent a cease and desist letter from the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), a digital rights management development group that includes the fearsome lineup of the Walt Disney Co.
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