Hollywood sued supplier of DVD copy software
On Thursday, seven rough Hollywood studios jointly filed a lawsuit against the software manufacturer 321 studios. Your accusation: The company distributed programs for copying and converting DVD content violated against the DMCA.
Hardly, a controversial process based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is over (ELCOMSOFT acquitted), as the next time the next time. Because of a violation of the DMCA ban, to bypass copy protection technologies, now the small software company 321 studios from Nevada was sued. Stone of the crimes are the programs from their distributed programs "DVD Copy Plus" and "DVD X Copy", with which movie DVDs copy.
The first step in the confrontation with Hollywood has made 321 studios, however, as it sued the seven studios in April this year (David against Hollywood). The reason: Representatives of the film industry had referred to the software of the company in interviews as illegal. The lawsuit should therefore be highly illegal that the programs are legal.
How digital breaks
Even before a judge could decide whether the procedure is received, the studios now submitted their counterclaim. As the reason for the current active-will representative of the studios refer to the fact that the program published only in November "DVD X Copy" the conflict a new dimension. Its leaders allowed merely the creation of inferior divx copies. "DVD X Copy" By contrast, the lossless copying allows for DVD blanks. 321 Studios evokes that the software does not crack the CSS protection of a DVD. Instead, it starts the audio and video signals after it was decoded by a DVD player. So you do not get against the DMCA.
The judgment of the film industry is clearly clear. Studio lawyer Patricia Benson is quoted by AP with the words, this is as if someone sell a digital crowbare. A comparison that the Princeton Professor Edward Felten became known as SDMI Cracker could not be deferred:
"MS. Benson securely shocked when you learned that a handler named "Ace hardware" here in the sleepy Princeton, New Jersey, very popular breaking iron."