They are closed clumps of digital code that only one purchaser can own.
Those sales weren't limited to aging hippies who've never powered up a computer: Roughly nine of every ten LPs sold included a digital download code for the same album.
Microsoft lawyers have argued in court that there is no valid technological or legal distinction between digital music and software code.
At that time a lot of companies wanted to crack the code on seamless digital rights management.
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Digital photos, stored as computer code, go straight from camera to PC.
The engine exists now as a digital simulation, a million lines of code.
They translate analog signals that move through a cable or over the air into digital bits, which form the binary code that's comprehensible to a computer.
Real DVD also installs a new layer of digital-rights-management (DRM) code on files, blocking users from copying them more than five times to other computers.
In a digital twist, tourists receive a card with a code number on it, and later, they can view the images online and decide if any of the prints are worth purchasing.
In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.
Its first product accelerates the translation of ubiquitous Java code into bits, the ones and zeros that every digital device can understand.
Now, Qualcomm is a promising telecom company with a lock on a technology (called code division multiple access) that is becoming the standard for digital cell phones.
This packet of data (usually about four kilobytes of code) is then embedded within the file, and a digital watermark is inserted into the newly created space left behind by the compression process.
The software giant pledged to fix the update but its efforts became more urgent when security firm EEye Digital Security discovered that the crash circumstances could be exploited to run malicious code on that machine.
That U.S. Code citation, for example, comes from the office's Federal Digital System website.
Beyond issues of attribution and extraterritoriality, there is the simple reality that digital technology permits the compression of vast amounts of information into brief bursts of computer code.
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Pulse-code modulation is simply a way of representing the analog electrical signal, in digital form.
Digital detectives who have tracked Sobig's origins now describe an elaborate criminal enterprise in which code-writers issued steadily improving versions, each one harder to kill than its predecessor.
Digital detectives who have tracked Sobig's origins now describe an elaborate criminal enterprise in which code writers issued steadily improving versions, each one harder to kill than its predecessor.
As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
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