The ongoing battle over RealNetwork’s RealDVD DVD- copying techno...
The ongoing battle over RealNetwork’s RealDVD DVD- copying technology will go to another round. As expected, RealNetworks appealed a federal court’s ruling that its technology violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and also breached its license for DVD’s Content…
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Scramble System (WID Aug 13 p3). In an 86-page brief filed late Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District, RealNetworks argued that the lower court erred on placing a preliminary injunction against the sale of its software and related RealDVD hardware devices. It said the August ruling by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel didn’t take into account “the public interest” in technologies that would let DVD owners make back-up copies of content that they'd bought and own legitimately. RealNetworks’ appeal restated its long- standing position that allowing such back-up copies won’t cause “irreparable harm” to the content owners -- as the Hollywood studios claim -- because its system prevents further serial-copying or Internet transmission of the content. RealNetworks asked the Appellate Court to remove the lower court’s injunction. No date has been set for a hearing on RealNetworks’ appeal.