After eight months of deliberation, a San Francisco federal judge has ruled that software company 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying products are illegal. In a ruling released Friday, Judge Susan ...

A California appeals court on Wednesday tossed a trial judge’s ruling in favor of Kaleidescape Inc., a company that makes high-end home theater servers that copy and store movies from DVDs for later ...

Macrovision on Tuesday released a new DVD copy-protection technology in hopes of substantially broadening its role in Hollywood's antipiracy effort. The content-protection company is pointing to the ...

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s six major movie studios Tuesday sued Seattle-based RealNetworks to prevent it from distributing DVD-copying software they said would allow consumers to “rent, rip and return” ...

Copying commercial DVDs for any reason whatsoever would be prohibited under a proposed amendment to the DVD copy protection license, as would playing DVD content without having the DVD physically ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Whether the public has a right to make a "fair use" copy of DVDs is on trial in a San Francisco federal court. Yet the public may never know whether the verdict was reached fairly ...

Remember RealDVD, that famous piece of paid software that let you simply and easily let you make a fair copy of a DVD onto your PC’s harddrive as a “personal” backup? It’s been killed by Hollywood’s ...

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Whether the public has a right to make a fair use copy of DVDs is on trial in a San Francisco federal court. Yet the public may never know whether the verdict was reached fairly because the presiding ...