RealNetworks Burns Hollywood By Aggressively Introducing New DVD-Burning Software
Mon Sep 08, 2008 @ 01:19PM PSTBy Eriq Gardner
Hollywood's grasp on how consumers burn DVDs could be slipping. According to a story in today's NY Times, RealNetworks plans to introduce a $30 software program for Windows computers that allows users to easily make a digital copy of an entire DVD.
Before introducing the product, Robert Glaser, chief executive of RealNetworks, pointed to a decision last year in a California court as providing legally-safe breathing room to introduce the product.
In the case, the DVD Copy Control Association, an alliance that licenses the encryption for DVDs, sued a company called Kaleidescape, that sells a $10,000 computer server that makes and stores digital copies of up to 500 films. Judge Leslie C. Nichols of the Santa Clara Superior Court ruled that Kaleidescape made a good faith effort to make sure its product was compliant.
Of course, circumstances can change. The decision is under appeal and Bill Rosenblatt, editor of the online newsletter DRM Watch, says that if the decision is overturned, "Real will have to withdraw the product and could get sued."
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