Posted on 08/12/2009 4:56:52 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A federal judge in San Francisco has sided with Hollywood studios and ruled against RealNetworks’ DVD-copying software saying RealDVD allows users to engage in copyright infringement.
U.S. District Court Marilyn Patel, in an order issued late Aug. 11, wrote that RealDVD “circumvents a technological measure that effectively controls access to or copying of the studios’ copyrighted content on DVDs.”
Patel’s order effectively bars RealNetworks from selling RealDVD in any form, including its Facet DVD player that can create and store DVD copies.
Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, said he was “very pleased” by the ruling.
"This is a victory for the creators and producers of motion pictures and television shows and for the rule of law in our digital economy,” Glickman said in a statement. “Judge Patel's ruling affirms what we have known all along: RealNetworks took a license to build a DVD-player and instead made an illegal DVD-copier."
That O RLY baby is one classic post!
It is pretty bad when the DVD’s are set where you cannot bypass or skip the commercials at the beginning. A big fraud is the DVD Region Codes. Personally, I enjoy watching Japanese imports both movies and anime but thanks to region codes, cannot watch without the help of DVD ripping software. Also Ogle and Xine on Linux ignores region codes.
You can buy a region free (and even PAL/NTSC compatible) DVD player.
Just imagine when they get people to switch to some CD2.0 format where they can restrict playback of import CDs.
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