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Another Court Deals Major Blow to DVD Copying
A California appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that paved the way for a $10,000 DVD copying system called Kaleidescape and other products from the company with the same name. The decision (.pdf) by the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose, California, was the second court in two days to rule that companies are bound by the entire Content Scramble System licensing regime, which prevents duplicating DVDs. Late Tuesday, a San Francisco federal judge ruled that RealNetworks’ DVD copying software was a breach of the Content Scramble System license, which is required for DVDs and computers to play DVDs.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Motion Picture Association of America and RealNetworks square off in a federal courtroom here Friday to determine the legitimacy of the Seattle-based tech company’s DVD copying software. The MPAA, which fears losing complete oversight of the DVD as the music industry lost control of the CD, is challenging RealNetworks’ $30 software allowing users to make backup copies of DVDs on their hard drives. Hollywood claims the RealDVD software , which a judge ordered removed from the market last year pending the litigation’s outcome, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibiting the circumvention of encryption technology.
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