Courts put DVD ripping on shaky ground; ZDNet.com, 8/14/09

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes via ZDNet.com; Courts put DVD ripping on shaky ground:

"Two court decisions send a message that both DVD ripping and DVD ripping hardware/software is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5184

Judge temporarily halts sales of RealDVD in wake of lawsuit - ars technica, 10/5/08

Judge temporarily halts sales of RealDVD in wake of lawsuit:

"Real has been ordered to temporarily suspend distribution of its new DVD ripping and archiving product, RealDVD, thanks to a lawsuit filed by the MPAA claiming that it facilitates copyright infringement...

From the moment Real first announced RealDVD, the company was aware that there would be legal questions about the product, but seemed to think that everything would be fine since the company said it had "licensed the DVD technology for a legal right to play back DVD content."...

"RealNetworks' RealDVD should be called StealDVD," MPAA executive vice president and general counsel Greg Goeckner remarked about the product."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081005-judge-temporarily-halts-sale-of-realdvd-in-wake-of-lawsuit.html