Hacker cracks HD copy protection
A lone hacker has unlocked the master key preventing the copying of high-definition DVDs, reports The Register.
The individual was able to defeat the technology with no cracking tools or reverse engineering, despite the millions of dollars and many years engineers put into developing the Advanced Access Content System for locking down high-definition video.
A hacker, going by the name arnezami on the Doom9 discussion boards, has been hard at work for at least the past eight days, when he first claimed to have discovered how to read the volume ID of the movie King Kong.
Google suffers setback in copyright case
A ruling against Google in a copyright case in Belgium may influence courts in other European countries, but not the US where laws are more permissible, reports ZDNet News.
A Belgian court yesterday ordered the search giant to refrain from showing excerpts of articles from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers on Google News and Google's Web search site for Belgium, reaffirming an earlier ruling by the same court against the company.
However, in a nod to Google, the court reduced the daily fine Google faces if it fails to heed the order, from $1.3 million to $32 500. This is the company's second go-round with the case.
Ten more Cape schools get Linux labs
Absa and Engen will spend R600 000 to provide 10 Northern Cape schools with Linux-based school laboratories, reports Tectonic.
The companies have joined with the province's Dinaledi team in an effort to improve maths and science results in the 10 schools by deploying the Shuttleworth Foundation's tuXlab service.
The project will be implemented by Inkululeko Technologies, which has installed tuXlab in over 200 schools in SA.
UK simplifies broadband porting
The process of moving to a new broadband supplier in the UK should get easier this week, reports BBC News.
New rules come into force today that change the way the UK's broadband providers handle the process of switching suppliers. The rules stop broadband firms charging customers for switching and remove other barriers to the process.
Internet firms that put obstacles in the way of customers keen to switch could face heavy fines from regulator Ofcom. More than three-quarters of all Internet connections in UK homes are through broadband.
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