BRIEFLY DVD MAKERS SUE DESCRAMBLER FIRM.Paramount Pictures Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co., Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Entertainment Inc., Universal City Studios LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. sued a Northern California DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. electronic chip manufacturer for breach of contract Monday, claiming it sold descrambler de·scram·bler n. An electronic device that decodes a scrambled transmission into a signal that is intelligible to the receiving apparatus. descrambler chips to at least one company that was unlicensed to receive them. To protect against the duplication or redistribution of copyright material on DVDs, movie studios use the Content Scramble System Content Scramble System (CSS) is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme used on almost all commercially produced DVD-Video discs. It utilizes a weak, proprietary 40-bit stream cipher algorithm. The system was introduced around 1996 and has subsequently been compromised. or CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. , according to the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit. The CSS is used to ``encrypt the content and prevent playback in devices that are not licensed'' by the DVD Copy Control Association The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) is an organization primarily responsible for the copy prevention of DVDs. The Content Scramble System (CSS) was devised for this purpose to make copyright infringement difficult. , the suit states. Chip manufacturer Sigma Designs Inc., which is based in Milpitas, Calif., can legally manufacture, sell or distribute CSS descrambler chips under certain conditions, but only to other CSS licensees, the suit states. - City News Service L.A. credit best of 5 biggest cities Los Angeles has the highest credit rating among the country's five most populous cities, Mayor James Hahn announced Monday. ``While other cities have seen their credit (ratings) plummet, our hiring freeze and other austerity measures, combined with our priority-based budgeting system, have placed the city's finances on solid ground without cutting key services like police and fire,'' Hahn said. An analyst for the bond-rating firm Standard & Poor's wrote that ``the stable outlook reflects the city's deep and diverse economic base and an expectation of stable financial performance, given the city's proactive efforts to establish predictable reserve and debt policies.'' An analyst for Moody's wrote that the city's credit rating was based on its ``favorable history of fiscal management despite its typically narrow reserves, and the now modestly paced regional economic growth.'' The credit ratings came after the end-of-July sale of $376.83 million in bonds, which were issued to finance the construction of facilities for the Proposition Q bond program to build new police stations in Los Angeles. - City News Service Bus Riders Union wants MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. fined The Bus Riders Union wants the courts to fine the Metropolitan Transportation Authority up to $1 million daily for what the group claims is the agency's failure to comply with a court requirement to buy new buses to relieve overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. , officials said Monday. The group filed a motion with the court-appointed special master who is overseeing the MTA's compliance with the federal consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. that requires new buses. - Daily News Travel-trailer fire kills farmworker A Camarillo farmworker died early Monday when the travel trailer he was sleeping in caught fire, authorities said. The blaze broke out about 1:35 a.m. in the trailer at Pleasant Valley and Pancho roads. The cause is under investigation. Coroner's investigators tentatively identified the man as a native of Oaxaca, Mexico, but were unable to confirm his identity. Anyone with information is asked to call the Ventura County Coroner's Office at (805) 641-4400. - Daily News 1 dies, 1 wounded in Valley shooting PACOIMA - One man was killed and a second man was critically wounded late Sunday in a shooting believed to have been gang-related. The two victims were walking in the 13500 block of Van Nuys Blvd. about 11 p.m. when they were approached by three men, including at least one who opened fire, police said. Edgar Estrada, 18, of Pacoima was taken to an area hospital where he died. The second victim, whose identity was not disclosed, was also taken to an area hospital; he was in critical condition Monday. It was not immediately determined whether the assailants were on foot or in a vehicle when the shots were fired, but they sped away in a dark- colored compact. - Daily News |
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