Sony faces digital security patent suit

[Bill Gates03]

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Sony is finding itself in another court battle over patents, as Canadian digital security firm Certicom this week filed suit against the company and a handful of its subsidiaries, alleging infringements on patents it holds for elliptic curve cryptography.

Elliptic curve cryptography can be used as a way to secure communications between electronic devices, preventing interception or altering of a signal, and Certicom is alleging that Sony's uses of Advanced Access Content System (AACS) and Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP) specifications violate its patents. A host of Sony products are named in the suit as infringing devices, including the PlayStation 3, its games, all Blu-ray products, certain high-definition TVs, and DTCP-enabled, i.Link-equipped Vaio PCs.


Haha, Sony sux again..   

[Nizzlers]

Haha. Sucks for Sony.

[Bill Gates03]

Yeah, for certain reasons I really don't like Sony, at least a big part of them.

[bgavran3]

I do not hate Sony but I neither od like them. Sony is as good as it is bad. And reverse.

[Nizzlers]

There systems are alright. Microsoft is much better.

[rabidzebu]

it's definitely personal preference