321 Studios was dealt another blow as U.S. Dist. Court, N.Y., Jud...
321 Studios was dealt another blow as U.S. Dist. Court, N.Y., Judge Richard Owen imposed a worldwide ban on the manufacture and distribution of its Games X Copy software. The Entertainment Software Assn. (ESA) said the decision gave videogame…
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companies “a major victory in the fight to ban products that facilitate technology-cracking and software piracy.” ESA said 321 Studios “agreed to the preliminary injunction on the eve” of a hearing on a motion by Atari, Electronic Arts and Vivendi Universal Games requesting that the court block 321 Studios from distributing its game-cracking software. In their suit against 321, the game publishers claimed that 321 Studios’ Games X Copy was illegal because it violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing the technological protection measures used by entertainment software publishers to prevent game piracy. ESA Pres. Douglas Lowenstein said “we are extremely pleased that 321 Studios agreed to stop manufacturing and distributing its game-cracking software.” He said the technology used by 321 Studios “clearly violates the protection that game publishers enjoy under the DMCA and we are optimistic that the final outcome of this case will reflect that.”