In another attempt to fight piracy, Vivendi and Thomson Multimedia have announced to work together to develop anti-piracy technology.
The companies will focus on copy protection of products that include DVDs, broadcast, satellite television, broadband and video-on-demand services
Thomson said the partnership will focus first on DVD replication; the companies will seek to address content distributed via the Internet down the road. Thomson markets products under the Thomson brand in Europe and under RCA in the United States. It markets media services under its Technicolor brand, which produces and distributes DVDs, CD-ROMs, videocassettes and other media formats. It is also a co-producer of the MP3 digital audio format, which has become closely associated with online music piracy. |
Vivendi Universal media properties span music, publishing, Internet, TV and film, including Universal Studios in the United States and StudioCanal in France.
It seems no multimedia company thinks it can survive without copy protections. While copy protections may stop unauthorized copying it will not make them populair...
Source: Cnet.com
