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Subject:    [ISN] Firm attacks digital pirates
From:       mea culpa <jericho () dimensional ! com>
Date:       1998-09-24 19:02:21
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Five firms attack digital pirates
By Reuters
Special to CNET News.com
September 24, 1998, 9:20 a.m. PT

Five leading electronics makers said today they have started licensing a
method they've developed to protect copyrighted content transferred over
digital interfaces from illegal copying. 

The five firms are Hitachi, Intel, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony,
and Toshiba. 

The Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, an independent licensing
authority formed by the five firms, started licensing the Digital
Transmission Content Protection (DTCP)  method to interested businesses
yesterday, the group said in a statement. 

A Matsushita spokesman said the increasing popularity of digital
electronics products gave rise to the need to protect digital contents
transferred between electronic devices such as personal computers, DVD
players and set-top boxes. 

In February 1996, the five companies presented the DTCP method to the Copy
Protection Technical Working Group, an ad-hoc, cross-industry body
organized to evaluate content protection technologies, the statement said. 

They formed the authority in June 1998 to simplify licensing procedures
and promote swift acceptance of the DTCP method by content providers,
electronics makers and broadcast service providers, the statement said. 

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