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Real Networks rolls over to Hollywood
Will kill RealDVD, pay $4.5m RealNetworks has agreed to destroy all traces of its short-lived DVD-duplicating software, RealDVD, to appease the Hollywood heads that brought legal action against it.…
Continue reading »RealNetworks boss in sudden exit
Glaser steps down after 16 years Rob Glaser – founder of internet media outfit RealNetworks – has stepped down as chief executive of the company after sixteen years at the helm.…
Continue reading »Judge Slams MPAA ‘Cartel’ Allegations
A federal judge is slamming the door on RealNetworks’ argument the Hollywood studios are a “price-fixing cartel” that illegally prevent the distribution of DVD-duplicating wares. The Seattle-based electronics concern made the anti-trust argument in a failed bid to convince U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco to lift a distribution ban (.pdf) of its RealDVD software.
Continue reading »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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