News for Friday, 7 July 2006

The AACS (Advanced Access Content System) used to protect contents of blue-laser media (BD and HD-DVD) was decribed and avertised as "un-crackable".
This is maybe true. But in the past, it has been shown thatthere is no way to fully protect or prevent a content to be copied. The German magazine "C't" reports in its last issue that an application able to capture the video, via the "print screen" function, at a frequency of 25 images/seconde could be used to record a HD Video streaming; bypassing the AACS protection.
One will of course need a powerful computer, and a large HD, but you will also have to extract the audio track then resynchronize it later on with the captured video. It will of course be time-consuming, but it is not impossible to do.
So, this article in "C't" proves one more time that spending times and energy to implement an unbreakable protection is useless. Majors should better try to have protected content to respect copyrights, but also propose larger diversity and better price to attract more customers.

Thanks to Jonathan for the info and photos.

This year Apple has decided to massively promote iTMS/iPod/iTunes during the Montreux Jazz Festival, perhaps the best-known jazz festival in the world.
The entire area is covered by blue posters promoting the iPod (on each bus station, and nearly all advertising boards) with the message " Montreux dans votre poche " (Montreux in your pocket). At the auditorium where concerts are taking place, Apple has installed a huge banner, as shown in the photos:


Posters:

At the same time, Apple is offering information/introduction/demonstration of the following applications : Garage Band, Logic Express and Logic Pro. Those seminars are free of charge and presented twice a day. You need to register to get access to them: here . All lectures are of course in English! For additional information, please visit Apple dedicated webpage

Apple may become the main sponsor of major musical events...
JCJ