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Old 23rd Jun 07, 07:56 AM
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Online video recorders stoke new piracy concerns
*Source: Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...LUGGEDIN.xml)*
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - It took Brian Baker only five minutes to persuade a major U.S. television network that it needed his company's technology to protect their programs from Web pirates.

Using software easily found on the Internet, Baker, chief executive of Widevine Technologies, recorded a video clip stream from that network's Web site, stripped out the commercials and sent the company back the altered video.

The network executive's reaction? "Wow, we need protection now!" Baker recalled. "Major television operators are seeing their offerings re-posted on the Internet, often times with the advertising stripped out."

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