SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Game Developers Conference) 3/9/2005 - Macrovision® Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), the world’s leading supplier of content and software value management solutions, today announced that the company will co-host a second installment of the popular "Hacker University" program, launched at E3 last year. Rob Ellison, director of product management at Macrovision, and Steven Davis, CEO at SecurePlay, will speak at "HackU: Beat the Hackers at Their Own Game" in San Francisco at this year’s Game Developers Conference on March 10, 2005. A Macrovision PC game pirating white paper will be available for those who attend.
The session will cover new video gamer survey statistics that show a significant rise in illegal copying and downloading of PC and console video games, and translate that trend to revenue loss in the games industry. The presentation will also address techniques used by hackers and explain how game developers and publishers can battle this growing threat.
"Our study shows that most people that obtain an illegal copy of a video game would have bought it if it hadn’t been so readily available for free on peer-to-peer networks and websites or so easily copied from friends," said Rob Ellison of Macrovision. "This session will explore the real impact of illegal copying and hacking today and offer insight into some of the tricks and techniques that hackers use to crack game code, and ways you can protect your games."
SESSION: HackU: Beat the Hackers at their Own Game
PRESENTER: Rob Ellison, Director of Product Management, Macrovision
DATE: Thursday, March 10, 2005
TIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
LOCATION: The Moscone Center, San Francisco, California
The "HackU: Beat the Hackers at their Own Game" Session is co-hosted by Macrovision and SecurePlay.
About SafeDisc Advanced
SafeDisc Advanced is a security solution for interactive software applications. It delivers a tenacious defense against unauthorized disc replication or code manipulation while giving maximum playability to consumers. Software developers can seamlessly integrate SafeDisc’s advanced security into the application, working in conjunction with the training and support offered by Macrovision’s SafeDisc Advanced Security Developer Program.
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 4,100 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.
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