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69 relations: ActiveX, Blog, Brian Bergstein, CA Technologies, Charlie Crist, Class action, Compact disc, Computer virus, Computer worm, Copy protection, Dan Kaminsky, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Deborah Platt Majoras, Defective by Design, Digital rights management, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eliot Spitzer, End-user license agreement, Extended Copy Protection, F-Secure, FAAC, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, Greg Abbott, Groklaw, Incisive Media, International Data Group, Internet service provider, IP address, LAME, List of Compact Discs sold with Extended Copy Protection, List of Compact Discs sold with MediaMax CD-3, MacOS, Malware, Mark Russinovich, MediaMax CD-3, Microsoft Windows, MP3, MP3 Newswire, Mpg123, Napster, Natalie Imbruglia, Neda Ulaby, New Scientist, NPR, Open-source software, PDF, Phoning home, Product recall, Reuters, ..., Revenue stream, Rootkit, Sony BMG, Sony Pictures, Spyware, Steve Curry, Symantec, Sysinternals, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Thomas Hesse, Thomas Reilly, Uninstaller, United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, United States Department of Homeland Security, VLC media player, White Lilies Island, Yahoo! News, ZDNet. Expand index (19 more) »
ActiveX
ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").
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Brian Bergstein
Brian Bergstein is the National Technology Editor for the American Associated Press news agency, based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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CA Technologies
CA Technologies, formerly known as Computer Associates International, Inc. and CA, Inc., is an American multinational publicly held corporation headquartered in New York City.
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Charlie Crist
Charles Joseph Crist Jr. (born July 24, 1956) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for since 2017.
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Class action
A class action, class suit, or representative action is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member of that group.
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Compact disc
Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.
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Computer virus
A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.
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Computer worm
A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.
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Copy protection
Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any effort designed to prevent the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons.
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Dan Kaminsky
Dan Kaminsky is an American security researcher.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, sociologist, and diplomat.
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Deborah Platt Majoras
Deborah Platt Majoras is the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, appointed May 11, 2004, by President George W. Bush and sworn in on August 16, 2004.
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Defective by Design
Defective by Design is an anti-DRM initiative by the Free Software Foundation.
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Digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is a set of access control technologies for restricting the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
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Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is a retired American politician, attorney, and educator.
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End-user license agreement
In proprietary software, an end-user license agreement (EULA) or software license agreement is the contract between the licensor and purchaser, establishing the purchaser's right to use the software.
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Extended Copy Protection
Extended Copy Protection (XCP) is a software package developed by the British company First 4 Internet (which on 20 November 2006, changed its name to Fortium Technologies Ltd) and sold as a copy protection or digital rights management (DRM) scheme for Compact Discs.
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F-Secure
F-Secure Corporation (formerly Data Fellows) is a Finnish cyber security and privacy company based in Helsinki, Finland.
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FAAC
FAAC or Freeware Advanced Audio Coder is a software project which includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2.
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Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 established the Federal Trade Commission.
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Greg Abbott
Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who serves as the 48th Governor of Texas since January 2015.
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Groklaw
Groklaw was a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open source software community.
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Incisive Media
Incisive Media is a B2B information and events business.
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International Data Group
International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) is a Chinese-owned, American-based media, data and marketing services and venture capital organization.
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Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.
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IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
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LAME
LAME is a software encoder that converts audio to the MP3 file format.
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List of Compact Discs sold with Extended Copy Protection
The following compact discs, sold by Sony BMG, were shipped with the computer software known as Extended Copy Protection (XCP).
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List of Compact Discs sold with MediaMax CD-3
The following Compact Discs were sold with a software package for copy-protection known as MediaMax CD-3, created by SunnComm and used by the record label RCA Records/Arista Records/BMG.
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MacOS
macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.
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Malware
Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.
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Mark Russinovich
Mark Eugene Russinovich (born 1966) is CTO of Microsoft Azure.
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MediaMax CD-3
MediaMax CD-3 is a software package created by SunnComm and was sold as a form of copy protection for compact discs.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format for digital audio.
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MP3 Newswire
Founded in 1998, the same year as MP3.com, MP3 Newswire is the oldest active news site devoted to digital media technology.
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Mpg123
mpg123 is a free and open-source audio player.
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Napster
Napster is the name given to three music-focused online services.
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Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia (born 4 February 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress, naturalised in the UK.
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Neda Ulaby
Neda Ulaby (ندى علبي, born 1970) is an American reporter for National Public Radio, covering arts, cultural trends and digital media.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Phoning home
Phoning home, in computing, refers to an act of client to server communication which may be undesirable to the user and/or proprietor of the device or software.
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Product recall
A product recall is a request to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or product defects that might endanger the consumer or put the maker/seller at risk of legal action.
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Reuters
Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Revenue stream
A revenue stream is a source of revenue of a company or organization.
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Rootkit
A root kit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or areas of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software.
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Sony BMG
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.
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Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (known simply as Sony Pictures and abbreviated as SPE) is a Japanese-owned American entertainment company that produces, acquires and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.
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Spyware
Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization sometimes without their knowledge, that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, that asserts control over a device without the consumer's knowledge, or it may send such information to another entity with the consumer's consent, through cookies.
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Steve Curry
Stephen Thomas Curry (born September 13, 1965) is an American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the season.
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Symantec
Symantec Corporation (commonly known as Symantec) is an American software company headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
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Sysinternals
Windows Sysinternals is a part of the Microsoft TechNet website which offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Thomas Hesse
Thomas Hesse is a senior media and digital media executive and entrepreneur.
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Thomas Reilly
Thomas F. Reilly (born February 14, 1942) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 45th Massachusetts Attorney General.
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Uninstaller
An uninstaller, also called a deinstaller, is a variety of utility software designed to remove other software or parts of it from a computer.
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United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is an organization within the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD).
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United States Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.
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VLC media player
VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.
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White Lilies Island
White Lilies Island is the second album by Natalie Imbruglia.
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Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.
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ZDNet
ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic.
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