Stories about: DVD Copy Control Association

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    Judge rules against RealDVD movie copying software 13/08/2009 07:24:00

    RealNetworks may have lost its bid to sell software that lets people copy DVD movies to their computer hard drive after a ruling on Tuesday.
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    Judge weighs testimony in RealDVD copy case 25/05/2009 06:08:00

    A US federal judge is now considering whether to permit sales of RealDVD, after testimony on a pretrial injunction ended Thursday. That injunction has prevented RealNetworks from selling its DVD software since late September.
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    RealDVD for legitimate users, CEO tells court 29/04/2009 11:32:00

    RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser took the stand Tuesday in his company's ongoing legal battle against the motion picture industry, arguing that RealNetworks' DVD-copying software is not designed to create a free-for-all of illegal copying.
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    Technology for legally burning copy-protected content 18/10/2007 12:36:56

    It's ironic: The copy protection created to stop the illegal copying of DVDs is the same technology that has prevented users from legally downloading paid-for content and then burning it to a DVD for playback in their living rooms. At the time the copy-protection rules were created, they had no provision for user recording of protected content to a recordable DVD, as opposed to a factory-replicated DVD-ROM.
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    DVD Ripping Flourishes in Hollywood 14/02/2005 11:21:09

    Illegal DVD-ripping software is flourishing, despite well-publicized wins by DVD piracy foes and laws against copying Hollywood movies.
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    Court rejects ban on DVD descrambling code 02/03/2004 12:10:59

    In a closely watched case concerning a DVD-cracking tool that has been distributed over the Internet, a California appeals court has reversed a 4-year-old order banning the publication of the computer code that can be used to copy DVDs.
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    Court: Texan can't be lassoed into CA DVD case 27/11/2002 09:51:56

    The California Supreme Court ruled that a Texas resident who published a DVD descrambling software program on the Internet could not be forced to stand trial in California just because the entertainment industry is centralized there.
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    ACCC steps up DVD investigation 10/08/2001 16:05:16

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has stepped up its investigation into the practice of DVD regional coding, following concerns that vendors are not properly advising consumers that certain codes may lead to a lockdown of their DVD players.
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    The battle for control of your DVD 01/12/2000 15:32:06

    The battle for control of your DVD
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    Inside the DeCSS Trial 01/08/2000 11:49:03

    Inside the DeCSS Trial
 
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