Joshua

Project Hudson, a tech consortium consisting of Intel, Matshu****a,
Nokia, Samsung, and Toshiba, claims to have solved the problem of
digitally securing intellectual property. The consortium says it will
soon issue a new system for securing digital music, video, and
software that offers content providers the first truly safe digital
delivery system. If true, the system neatly bypasses competing
efforts--most notably the Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM)
scheme, which has been the most successful intellectual property
security system so far--while ignoring other offerings from record
companies, RealNetworks, Apple Computer, and others.
"Content should be as transparent as it is today with MP3,"
Leonardo Chiariglione, an Italian electrical engineer who participated
in the development of the popular but insecure MP3 digital audio
compression scheme, said. "It should be movable anywhere and still be
protected. If we stay with digital islands, people have a legitimate
excuse for piracy."
The consortium plans to unveil its new security scheme at this
week's 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas, Nevada, but the group has been petitioning record companies,
movie companies, and other content creators in recent weeks to use its
new scheme. The group says it can protect content on audio CDs, DVD
movies, and portable audio, video, and gaming devices that use a
wireless Internet connection. The system relies on Internet
connectivity to securely share digital content.
In related news, the recent crackdown by Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) lawyers on illegal music swappers has
allegedly had the desired effect. The group issued a report this week
stating that the number of Americans illegally sharing music online
has dropped by half. The RIAA says that only 14 percent of Internet
users downloaded music while online in December 2003 compared with 29
percent in May 2003. (The report doesn't distinguish between legal and
illegal downloading, although researchers attribute the drop to fewer
illegal downloads.) The RIAA sued more than 400 song swappers last
year before a Washington, DC circuit court judge revoked the group's
ability to demand user information from ISPs last month.

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