Jeffrey Sullivan
According to Wired.com, the Motion Picture Association of America has now put a stop to those who want a legitimate method of copying DVDs for personal use. They sued RealNetworks over encryption technology, and after two years, Real finally backed down.
RealNetworks was originally sued by the MPAA in 2008 to block the sale of its DVD-copying software and hardware. The product, known as RealDVD, was declared to have broken the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The act, among other things, states that circumvention a DVD's encryption technology-- known as the Content Scramble System-- was illegal. CSS prevents home DVD copiers from duplicating official movie releases, but Real's product found a way to circumvent CSS. Real dropped their appeal of the violation on Wednesday.
The case cost RealNetworks millions in court fees, lawyers, etc., and now they also have to pay the MPAA $4.5 million to reimburse them for the MPAA's own court costs. Despite the fact the legal DVD copying is now dead, at least for the moment, pirated DVDs are still slipping through the cracks.
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