Piracy, the theft of copyrighted and protected content somehow, has always been around, since the dawn of media. From handwritten copies of borrowed books to teams of hundreds of hackers poring over ...

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DRM, or Digital Rights Management (some call it Digital Restrictions Management), is a class of technologies and software aimed to protect copyrighted material from unauthorized access, a.k.a. piracy.

A bug in the popular anti-piracy framework allows a side-channel attack on premium content. Researchers have used a proof-of-concept (PoC) side-channel attack to download an unencrypted raw file for ...

For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology used by online streaming sites like Disney, Hulu and Netflix to ...

To trust that Android smartphones and many other devices are secure from piracy, these popular streaming services make use of Google’s Widevine DRM platform. As one of the industry’s oldest DRM ...

For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them. For just as long, hackers have found ...

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