It`s illegal to duplicate a copyrighted, prerecorded video tape. And in the two years that Macrovision has licensed its anticopying technology to software makers, home dubbing of rental tapes also has ...

Shares of Gemstar-TV Guide International surprisingly fell 17% on Friday after Macrovision said it has agreed to acquire the programming guide firm for about $2.8 billion in cash and stock. By Paul ...

Encryption company Macrovision said it has formed a Music Technology Division, with exec Mark Belinsky named as senior VP and general manager of the unit. The company also announced a deal with ...

Macrovision, which has been preventing consumers from copying entertainment content since the early '80s, has agreed to acquire Muze, a massive database of music, video, books and videogame metadata ...

Some people say Macrovision doesn`t work at all, that they can dub at will with no problems. Others say it works only too well, that they can`t even watch a movie–much less dub–without problems. The ...

Hold on to your hats folks because the company that we love to hate is turning over a new leaf by kicking off its old DRM shoes and leveraging its acquisition of Gemstar in a big way. What we mean is ...

The Walt Disney Company is a regular user of Macrovision 's RipGuard anti-copying product, according to a recent Piper Jaffray report. February checks indicate that one major studio, that of The Walt ...

Macrovision Solutions Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Muze Inc. By Ed Christman Macrovision Solutions Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to ...

Macrovision said Thursday it will acquire InstallShield, which makes software installation tools, for $76 million in cash. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Macrovision, a maker of copy-protection technology, ...

Copy-protection company Macrovision said Wednesday that it sued DVD-copying software producer 321 Studios, joining the movie industry in a legal fight against the small software maker. Macrovision ...

Macrovision said it would buy Gemstar-TV Guidefor $2.8 billion in cash and stock, but investors were skeptical of its bet to deliver entertainment across consumer devices, sending shares of both ...