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    Judge: DVD-copying software is illegal

    update: After eight months of deliberation, a San Francisco federal judge has ruled that software company 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying products are illegal.

    In a ruling released Friday, Judge Susan Illston granted Hollywood studios' request for an injunction against 321 Studios, saying the small software company has seven days to stop distributing its DVD-copying products.

    The case was widely viewed as a test of how far commercial software could go in helping consumers make backup copies of their own legally purchased digital entertainment products, such as DVDs or video games. Illston wrote that federal law made it illegal to sell products that--like 321 Studios' software--break through DVDs' antipiracy technology, even if consumers do have a legal right to make personal copies of their movies.

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    http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5162749.html?tag=nefd_top
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  • #2
    predictable....
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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    • #3
      ****ing moron.

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          Lol.
          What can I say?
          Come to Europe.
          Let the US die.

          Their software are as bad as their movies, which are as bad as everything else there.

          Only exceptions are the areas where Patents and Injunctions havent spoild the inventiveness - oh, that really doesnt leave any areas, does it?

          Lol.


          Read last issue (february) of Wired.
          They have a quite interesting rant about it.
          I wholeheartly agree.

          ~~DukeP~~

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          • #6
            Just wait, Duke.. the EU will have things as messed up there as they are here.. perhaps in different ways.. but in no time at all.

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            • #7
              Not surprising that its a California judge

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              • #8
                Originally posted by DukeP
                Lol.
                What can I say?
                Come to Europe.
                Let the US die.

                Their software are as bad as their movies, which are as bad as everything else there.
                Except that you run our software. On our hardware. To watch our movies.

                That bad, huh?
                Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                • #9
                  Hmm. There are plenty of other software packages or combinations for free on the internet that can do this. They are just squashing the one that could actually make money.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by KvHagedorn
                    Just wait, Duke.. the EU will have things as messed up there as they are here.. perhaps in different ways.. but in no time at all.
                    Haven't they already ****ed up in Germany, where copying software is illegal and Ahead and Elby had to "migrate" to warmer places ?
                    And last I remember this is a general EU policy waiting to be implemented.
                    Last edited by Admiral; 22 February 2004, 00:01.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Admiral
                      Haven't they already ****ed up in Germany, where copying software is illegal and Ahead and Elby had to "migrate" to warmer places ?
                      And last I remember this is a general EU policy waiting to be implemented.
                      YUP
                      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by KvHagedorn
                        Just wait, Duke.. the EU will have things as messed up there as they are here.. perhaps in different ways.. but in no time at all.
                        Yup.


                        ~~DukeP~~

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Wombat
                          Except that you run our software. On our hardware. To watch our movies.

                          That bad, huh?
                          Yup!


                          ~~DUkeP~~

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