One purpose of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is to protect the technology of file sharing, and companies that use it, by inventing a theoretical "safe harbor" that shelters all sorts of user-powered platforms from the consequences of illegal actions by the users.
Allegedly, from September 2009 until September 2011, the defendants obtained separate audio and video for motion pictures showing in theaters, and then edited and combined those components into one infringing movie file, which was shared among thousands of IMAGiNE Group members through the BitTorrent file sharing technology.
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The legitimacy of underlying file-transfer technology is never in dispute, though media companies might hate the unleashing of content that it represents.
In the end, he came up with the MPEG-3 technology that spawned the MP3 file-sharing music revolution, the ultimate prize for music fans.
The deal shows how far Skype has come since it was launched in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, two men who had created a file-sharing technology called Kazaa that became widely associated with music piracy.
At the heart of its system, running on CSC Hogan mainframe technology, is a central customer file, he said.
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Among the trends spurring innovation are the growth in telework and contracting. (Indeed the shift towards contracting and away from hiring employees will increase under the new healthcare law.) Technology has obliterated the need for file cabinets.
While everyone knows about the old stand-bys for back-ups, such as using CDRs or a Zip drive to store your information, or even e-mailing a file to yourself, new technology makes backing up even easier.
Instead, it merely copies the encrypted file and uses the same player technology installed in a typical hardware DVD player to read it.
It was sped by such factors as the spread of DIY studio-recording technology, the rise of online radio and file sharing, and a growing international appetite for electronic music.
Sony did file a patent for used-games blocking technology, but apparently that had nothing to do with the Playstation 4.
Figure 1 in the accompanying power point file (from the April 2011 Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, Coughlin Associates, www.tomcoughlin.com) shows historical quarterly HDD average sales prices (ASPs) from Q4 1998 through Q1 2011.
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Excited by the possibilities of her recent research results, Karen, a chemical engineering professor, decided it was time to file for patents on her new surface chemistry technology and create a business with a faculty colleague and two graduate students.
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Information technology is changing at blinding speed, and new e-readers, new applications, new file formats, and new ways of presenting the wisdom of the ages are opening up a whole new literary universe.
Frank Quattrone, a former star technology banker at CSFB, was convicted of obstructing justice and other offences in relation to another bout of file-shredding.
Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers.
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In a statement, the Solyndra said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while exploring a sale of the business or licensing its thin-film photovoltaic technology.
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