According to an article at
BoingBoing, the AACS protection system found in BD and HD-DVD content is history. Unlikely the previous method to crack the AACS(
see previous news), the new method bypasses the volume key step, allowing anyone to extract the copy-protected content from any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc.
As mentioned previous, AACS took years to be developed, and was broken in couple of weeks from the time BD and HD-DVD contents were available on the market. So, considering money spent to develop a protection that will anyway be cracked or bypassed, would not be more rational to re-think the business plan. What if the money invested in useless protection methods was invested to reduce cost of HD video, or to offer cheaper online download services?
Reports from Eban
AOL Radio, the free radio service, is available on Mac!
You only need a valid AIM or AOL account to get access to 200 radio stations.
AOL Radio service is a partnership with XMRadio, a satellite-based radio service, so it offers a large panel of musics and styles.
AOL downloading center for Mac: http://downloads.channel.aol.com/macproducts
AOL Radio Blog: http://journals.aol.com/theradioblog/aolradio
Hereafter are screenshots of the player as well as the transparent window appearing when changing music track.
The radio is a 64 Kbits/s streaming.
With his "Thoughts on Music" Steve Jobs was primarily aiming to explain to European consumer associations that Apple was not willing to add DRMs to music tracks, but was forced by Music Majors.
Since its publication online, Steve Jobs' comments on music lead to many collateral consequences: all actors of the digital music market have published their thoughts, creating clear disagreement among Music Majors while one could have imagine them all united against iTunes Store.
If the Warner currently considers that one can not have DRM-free music tracks on online music stores, EMI is suspected to prepare its catalog for a DRM-free offer. Other Majors did not take final position about this point, and will probably wait for further development before following on side or the other. Last but not least, yesterday Yahoo back Apple's call for DRM-free music.
Disagreements between Majors is of course a blessing for Apple, showing that Majors are not all thinking the same way, and Apple could then in the future negotiate specific deal with each of them when renegotiating rights/price for iTunes Store.
If DRMs have to be dropped for online music stores in a near future, Microsoft will lose a lot as the company had successfully imposed its protection system to all online music stores but iTunes Store.
A new update for Mac Office 2004 is
available from Microsoft website (version 11.3.4, 12.8MB). It requires the previous version 11.3.3 to be installed.
This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.
Applies to: Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, Entourage 2004.
At the 3GSM, NVidia announced a new chip for mobile phones: the GoForce 6100.
This chip integrates most of the features one can expect from a modern mobile phone:
- Multimedia & 3D acceleration
- Wi-Fi
- H.264 decoding
- Camera management
- Audio management
In reality the chip is an ARM core running at 250 MHz.
According to our information, it is precisely a GoForce chip that will be used in the iPhone, and it will be accounted as being among the 3 ARM chips.
