Kaleidescape Says DVD CCA Erred When It Told DOJ That Firm Had Withdrawn
Kaleidescape has “confirmation” from the DVD Copy Control Association that the company was “incorrectly identified” in a DOJ Antitrust Division notice as having withdrawn from the Content Scramble System (CSS) licensing group (see 1703270055), Kaleidescape CEO Cheena Srinivasan emailed us…
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Wednesday. DVD CCA representatives “regret the error,” Srinivasan told us. “They have informed me that if anyone wishes to know more about our DVD CCA status, that they’d be glad to confirm that we’re a current licensee of the [CSS] technology.” DVD CCA confirms that Kaleidescape remains a member of the group, spokesman Greg Larsen emailed us Thursday. The notice mistakenly listing Kaleidescape’s membership as having lapsed was the result of “nothing more than an unintentional clerical error on the part of DVD CCA,” Larsen said. “We are looking to see if there is a way to file an amended notice.” DVD CCA “is certainly not happy about this filing mistake and regrets any error for which it is responsible,” he said. Kaleidescape was one of six companies to recently withdraw from DVD CCA, according to the notice published in Monday’s Federal Register. DOJ and the FTC require the change-of-membership notifications to extend DVD CCA members antitrust protections under the 1993 National Cooperative Research and Production Act, the notice said. That the notice listed Kaleidescape as having withdrawn from DVD CCA was noteworthy in light of the company's settlement nearly three years ago of the decade-long breach of license complaint brought by DVD CCA over Kaleidescape’s movie servers that import CSS-protected DVDs.