The case, which will be heard in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, holds important consequences not only for software developers and for the motion picture industry but also for consumers, who ...

WASHINGTON — A distributor of DVD copying software is asking a federal court to declare its product legal. In a complaint filed Tuesday in federal district court for the Northern District of ...

Hollywood studios said Thursday that they have settled a lawsuit against ESS Technology, a multimedia chipmaker accused of illegally allowing its products to be used in DVD-copying devices. The Motion ...

In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath of the movie industry, a small software company is asking a federal judge for permission to sell and market its product for copying DVDs. In a complaint ...

As a result of a copy-protection secret being made public, individuals who posted instructions on the Internet that outlined how to use software to break DVD copy protection are off the hook after a ...

Hollywood’s movie piracy problem is about to get worse. The Motion Picture Assn. of America estimates that the film biz looses $3.5 billion a year due to piracy. The MPAA estimates that ...

Velan Software has announced the release of Fast DVD Copy 4, its software for Mac OS X that allows users to copy DVD videos, audio CDs, PlayStation 2 games, DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs. New features in this ...

The company best known for bringing streaming video to the Internet back in 1997 has developed RealDVD, a new technology for legally copying commercial DVDs to your PC and storing them for later ...

A federal court in New York has granted copy protection technology firm Macrovision a preliminary injunction against 321 Studios, preventing the company from selling its DVD copying software on the ...

NEW YORK (AP) – The maker of DVD-duplication software ruled in violation of copyright law is nevertheless pledging to keep selling it – but without a built-in tool for descrambling movies. In order ...

Almost reflexively, six studios have filed suit against RealNetworks for their brand-new DVD copying software. RealDVD, as it is (was?) called, was tepidly received on account of crippling DRM which ...