Hollywood studios’ request for a preliminary injunction against R...
Hollywood studios’ request for a preliminary injunction against RealNetworks’ RealDVD copying software (WID Feb 17 p4) is scheduled for a hearing Friday in front of U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel in San Francisco. When downloads of RealDVD became available…
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for trial use Oct. 1, the MPAA studios won a temporary restraining order against selling it. RealNetworks since has said it’s confident it will prevail in the case. The $30 program would let consumers copy DVDs they own to a PC’s hard drive, for viewing on the computer. The content is locked to that PC and any others with a RealDVD license registered to the original customer, and it can’t be distributed on the Internet or to portable devices, RealNetworks said. It also claims the technology doesn’t circumvent DVD’s Content Scramble System and so doesn’t violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. RealNetworks said many free DVD ripping programs flout CSS and the DMCA, but its software lets consumers make DVD copies while preventing unauthorized redistribution through removable media or the Internet.