RealNetworks and Hollywood studios are squaring off today in a U.S. District Court in San Francisco where Judge Marilyn Hall Patel will determine if the program RealDVD violates laws created to prevent the copying of DVDs that use digital-rights-management technology. RealDVD is a $30 software program that allowed you to copy DVDs onto your computer. Last year a judge halted the sale of the program.RealNetworks maintains its RealDVD software is a convenience to consumers who can copy DVDs to a laptop for easy disc-free playback. The software, RealNetworks points out, doesn’t strip any copy protection from the DVD.
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RealNetworks and the major movie studios are gathering in San Francisco’s U.S. District Court on Friday to, possibly, determine the fate of DVD copying.RealNetworks would like to sell its $30 RealDVD application–an application that allows consumers to back up commercial DVDs to their computers’ hard drive for archival purposes. (These back up copies are still protected and can’t be burned to DVD.) The movie industry wants to maintain control of its content and argues that RealNetworks has breached a license to use CSS encryption (the form of copy-protection found on commercial DVDs) and is in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) won a temporary injunction in October that prevents RealNetworks from selling RealDVD.)
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