Five Giants in Technology Unite to Deter File Sharing: The technology and entertainment industries have long been at odds over the best way to secure intellectual property rights as digital technology advances.
Now, five of what industry executives say are the world's most powerful computer, cellphone and electronics companies are planning a new system for protecting digital music, video and software from illicit file sharing that they hope will at least narrow that gap. [...]
The consortium - known as Project Hudson and made up of Intel, Nokia, Samsung, Toshiba and Matshushita - plans to announce its new approach in early February to precede the Grammy music awards and the movie industry's Academy Awards ceremony, executives say.
File-Sharing: OK With Pay for Play: the percentage of American Internet users who download music files has dropped by half, to 14 percent from 29 percent.
Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay
