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 ...

Whether the public has a right to make a fair use copy of DVDs is on trial in a San Francisco federal court. Yet the public may never know whether the verdict was reached fairly because the presiding ...

NEW YORK — Court rulings have pulled the most popular software for copying DVD movies off the market, but a new program, already on sale at CompUSA and Wal-Mart, is trying to get around these rulings ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sony Corp. and other U.S. movie studio owners may succeed in forcing DVD-copying products off the market after a federal judge indicated she may decide the products violate federal ...

RealNetworks will appeal the preliminary injunction preventing it from marketing its RealDVD DVD-copying software for PCs and a planned set-top DVD jukebox that stores movie DVDs on an internal hard ...

An anonymous hacker known online as "Tron" is Hollywood's latest villain. Tron is the author of a piece of software called SmartRipper, which allows DVDs to be copied fairly easily to a computer hard ...

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 ...

In the last year, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) won various legal injunctions in the U.S. against software firm 321 Studios, putting the company out of business. In light of these ...

A few days ago I was talking a fellow Arsian when the topic of copying DVD movies came up. And by the way we're talking about copying movies on DVD on another disc using a DVD burner or simply put ...

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 ...

Those in the headline-scribbling business know that their work should be short, to-the-point, and as accurate as possible. While the headline for this blog entry qualifies on the first two fronts, a ...