In February 2005, Macrovision introduced its RipGuard technology designed to prevent or reduce digital DVD copying by altering the format of the DVD content to disrupt the ripping software.

In June 2005, Macrovision sent a cease and desist letter to " Lightning UK!

In June 2005, Macrovision sued Sima Products under section 1201 of the DMCA, claiming that Sima's video processors provided a way to circumvent Macrovision's analog copy protection.

* In 2005, Macrovision acquired the intellectual property rights to DVD Decrypter from its developer.

On June 6, 2005, the developer, Lightning UK !, announced via the CD Freaks website that he received a cease and desist letter from Macrovision.

On November 27, 2005, Afterdawn. com, a Finnish website, announced that it complied with a letter received from Macrovision demanding that DVD Decrypter be taken down from its site.

The software was still legally available due to many countries not having such restrictions, but in November 2005, Macrovision acquired the intellectual property rights to the software, revoked all licenses of use for the software, and started sending cease-and-desist letters to distributors on the grounds of copyright infringement.

In late 2005, the FABF acquired two Mil Mi-35 ' Hind ' attack helicopters from Russia in apparent response by moves by neighbouring Côte d ' Ivoire to bolster its own air attack capabilities during the Ivorian Civil War.

In October 2005, Borland acquired Legadero, in order to add its IT Management and Governance ( ITM & G ) suite, called Tempo, to the Borland product line.

Pendragon ( acquired in 1998 by Green Knight Publishing, and 2005 by White Wolf ), while related, has sufficiently different mechanics that it can be seen as a separate system.

On 24 January 2005 it was announced that Mandrakesoft had acquired Conectiva for 1. 79 million euro ( 2. 3 million U. S. dollars at the time ).

In March 2004, Grey Ghost Press acquired the copyright of Fudge, and on April 6, 2005, they released a version of Fudge under the Open Game License.

* Anibal Sanchez ( 2006 – 2012 )-Also acquired in the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell in the 2005 off-season, Sanchez threw a no-hitter in his rookie season and threw three one-hitters during his tenure.

In December 2004 it was announced that the rights had been acquired by Network Video, and was released on three Region 2 DVDs in May 2005.

Soft Cel Pictures shut down in 2005 and most of its titles were acquired by Critical Mass.

In turn, that company was partially acquired in 2005 by Pernod Ricard, now the largest spirits distributor in the world since its merger with the Swedish Vin & Sprit in March 2008.

In October 2005, Oracle Corporation acquired Innobase OY, the Finnish company that developed the third-party InnoDB storage engine that allows MySQL to provide such functionality as transactions and foreign keys.

In 2005, Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata established a new Studio Ghibli in Koganei, Japan and acquired all the copyrights of Miyazaki's works and business rights from Tokuma Shoten.

Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II soon afterwards acquired controlling interest in the live-action films released through September 16, 2005, the latest film in this package was Just Like Heaven.

Retail tools such as Altsys Fontographer ( acquired by Macromedia in January 1995, owned by FontLab since May 2005 ) added the ability to create Type 1 fonts.

During the 2005 NFL Draft, the Chargers drafted linebacker Shawne Merriman with a draft pick acquired from the Giants in the Eli Manning trade, who would go on to become a selection to the 2006 Pro Bowl and the 2005 Defensive NFL Rookie of the Year Award recipient.

Atlas has been acquired by Cable & Wireless Seychelles in 2005.

In 2005, DRG's diagnostics division was acquired by TRIMLINE Medical Products.

For example: Activision acquired Raven ( 1997 ), Neversoft ( 1999 ), Z-Axis ( 2001 ), Treyarch ( 2001 ), Luxoflux ( 2002 ), Shaba ( 2002 ), Infinity Ward ( 2003 ) and Vicarious Visions ( 2005 ).

During the 2005 offseason, the Redskins traded back WR Laveranues Coles to the New York Jets and acquired WR Santana Moss in return.

In September 2005, PalmSource announced that it was being acquired by ACCESS.

About. com was acquired by The New York Times Company in February 2005, who later announced plans to sell the site to IAC, owners of Ask. com and the Reference. com network, for $ 300 million.

De Camp's personal library of about 1, 200 books was acquired for auction by Half Price Books in 2005.

Several studios including Massive Entertainment, High Moon Studios, Radical Entertainment, and Swordfish Studios were acquired and integrated into Sierra throughout 2005 and 2006.

The online Britannica won the 2005 Codie award for " Best Online Consumer Information Service "; the Codie awards are granted yearly by the Software and Information Industry Association to recognise the best products among categories of software.

The Software Freedom Law Center was founded in 2005 to protect and advance FLOSS.

* Christian Imhorst, Anarchy and Source Code-What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism ?, ( licence: GFDL ), 2005

* Hahn, Robert W., Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries: Software and Biotechnology, AEI Press, March 2005.

Id Software became involved in film development when they were in the production team of the film adaption of their Doom franchise in 2005.

* Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil — Nerve Software ( 2005 )

* Quake 4 — Raven Software ( 2005 )

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

On August 19, 2005, id Software released the complete source code for Quake III Arena under the GNU General Public License, as they have for most of their prior engines.

Based on the success of the first Quake game, id later published Quake II and Quake III Arena ; Quake 4 was released in October 2005, developed by Raven Software using the Doom 3 engine.

In 2005 id Software signed a deal with publisher Pulse Interactive to release a version of Quake for mobile phones.

* Software and Media for a New Democracy a talk given by Ted Nelson at the File festival Symposium / November / 2005

* The Politics Of Internet Software ' Geeks Bearing Gifts ', a talk given by Ted at the Oxford Internet Institute, November 30, 2005

An ontology for micro-architectural design knowledge, IEEE Software Magazine, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, March – April 2005. pp. 28 – 33.

* The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White, promotion website for a book ( ISBN 0972182225 ) published in 2005 by Sand Hill Publishing

* Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software, Ben Klemens, Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

In 2005, the authors of the Boyer-Moore family of provers, which includes ACL2, received the ACM Software System Award " for pioneering and engineering a most effective theorem prover (...) as a formal methods tool for verifying safety-critical hardware and software.

* Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood, a 2005 First-person Shoot video game developed by Gearbox Software

* Definition of Social Software and Revised / Simplified Definition of Social Software by Tom Coates, May 2003 and January 2005

* Open Software License v. 3. 0 by Lawrence Rosen, 2005, Retrieved September 10, 2006

* Open Software License v. 1. 1 by Lawrence Rosen, 2005, Retrieved September 10, 2006

The Pierre-Lassonde et Claudette-Mackay-Lassonde building, home to the Electrical Engineering Department and Computer and Software Engineering Department, was inaugurated in September 2005.

It was included in a 2002 round-up of ICQ clients in the Russian XAKEP magazine, and in a 2005 round-up review of IRC Clients in Free Software Magazine.