时事英语－英语新闻导读 2004.3.3

HP announces moves in digital rights management
惠普获得数字内容保护技术许可

(中文大意)
惠普3月1日表示，其已经从英特尔获得了数字内容保护技术许可，同时惠普还与飞利浦研发了版权保护技术，分析人士称，惠普这些举动表明其正在寻求在数字版权保护这一刚刚兴起的领域抢占更多的地盘。

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Hewlett-Packard said Monday it had licensed² digital content protection technology from chipmaker Intel and developed copy protection technology with Philips as the printer and computer maker³ seeks to stake out a strong position in the nascent⁴ arena⁵ of digital copyright protection.
Palo Alto, California-based HP said that it had licensed Intel's high-bandwidth digital content protection technology, which is designed to ensure that video cannot be intercepted⁶ and recorded as its travels between devices, such as between a personal computer and a TV display screen.

Felice Swapp, who heads up much of HP's digital rights management work, said that the Intel technology is invisible to consumers, and that it made more sense for HP to license¹ that technology from Intel rather than to develop it itself and possibly create a competing standard.

In January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, HP Chairman and Chief Executive Carly Fiorina's keynote focused on digital piracy⁷, a hot-button issue.

Fiorina said at the time that this year all HP digital entertainment products would use software that honors the copyrights of various digital content.

"This is probably the first announcement that's come since CES that's trying to say what we're really doing here is to build on the vision that Carly laid out," Swapp said.

Fiorina wasn't the first high-tech⁸ executive to lay out such a vision, however.

As Napster turned the recording⁹ industry on its head, Apple CEO Steve Jobs ultimately persuaded all five major record labels to sign on to Apple's online music store, which is integrated with its popular iTunes digital music jukebox software.

Consumers can buy single songs on Apple's online music store for 99 cents each, and can legally download them onto up to three personal computers and onto as many of Apple's iPod digital music players as they like.

HP also said that the technology it and Philips developed will enable protected digital recordings¹⁰ of digital broadcast and cable television according to the rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in November.

The FCC agreed to allow programmers to attach a code to digital broadcasts that would specify¹¹ whether, if at all, a particular show could be copied or broadcast over the Internet.

HP and Philips said they had submitted their technology in the first round of filings to the FCC. The two companies said that their technology can be used with the DVD+R and +RW formats¹², which are among the most popular, and with other recording formats.

1 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

2 licensed   

adj.得到许可的v.许可，颁发执照(license的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• The new drug has not yet been licensed in the US. 这种新药尚未在美国获得许可。
• Is that gun licensed? 那支枪有持枪执照吗？

3 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

4 nascent   

adj.初生的，发生中的

参考例句：

• That slim book showed the Chinese intelligentsia and the nascent working class.那本小册子讲述了中国的知识界和新兴的工人阶级。
• Despite a nascent democracy movement,there's little traction for direct suffrage.尽管有过一次新生的民主运动，但几乎不会带来直接选举。

5 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。

6 intercepted   

拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 )； 截住； 截击； 拦阻

参考例句：

• Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆，记者们把他拦截住了。
• Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance. 他想从后门溜走，记者把他截住了。

7 piracy   

n.海盗行为，剽窃，著作权侵害

参考例句：

• The government has already adopted effective measures against piracy.政府已采取有效措施惩治盗版行为。
• They made the place a notorious centre of piracy.他们把这地方变成了臭名昭著的海盗中心。

8 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

9 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

10 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

11 specify   

vt.指定，详细说明

参考例句：

• We should specify a time and a place for the meeting.我们应指定会议的时间和地点。
• Please specify what you will do.请你详述一下你将做什么。

12 formats   

n.（出版物的）版式( format的名词复数 )；[电视]电视节目的总安排（或计划）

参考例句：

• They are producing books in all kinds of different formats. 他们出版各种不同开本的书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A true GUI includes standard formats for representing text and graphics. 真正的图形用户界面包括表示文字和图形的标准格式。 来自互联网