Showing posts with label copying software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copying software. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2008

Judge's Top Secret Decision Blocks Sale of DVD-Copying Software - Wired.com, 10/6/08

Judge's Top Secret Decision Blocks Sale of DVD-Copying Software:

"U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, who previously presided over the original Napster litigation, issued the tentative decision late Friday, the sources said...

The MPAA, in seeking to block RealDVD sales, claims (.pdf) the software is illegal and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The group says the software illegally circumvents technology designed to keep DVDs from being copied. "
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/judges-top-secr.html

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Hollywood aims to block RealNetworks' DVD software - Washington Post, 9/30/08

Hollywood aims to block RealNetworks' DVD software:
"Hollywood's six major movie studios on Tuesday sued RealNetworks Inc. to prevent it from distributing DVD copying software that they said would allow consumers to "rent, rip and return" movies or even copy friends' DVD collections outright...
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleges RealNetworks' RealDVD program, which launched Tuesday, illegally bypasses the copyright protection built into DVDs...
The software locks the copy to the hard drive where it is copied and to the program it was copied with, Kimball said, and he asserted that copying one's personal collection of DVDs amounts to "fair use" allowed by law. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093001308.html?sub=AR