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 ...

A COURT in California will this month rule on the legality of an ingenious new software package that makes perfect copies of movies on DVDs even if they are protected with the latest anti-copying ...

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 ...

Tron is the author of a piece of software called SmartRipper, which allows DVDs to be copied fairly easily to a computer hard drive, and from there burned onto recordable DVDs. So far, it’s hardly a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Macrovision on Tuesday released a new DVD copy-protection technology in hopes of substantially broadening its role in Hollywood's antipiracy effort. The content-protection company is pointing to the ...

Selling software bypassing copyright protection mechanisms on DVDs is illegal – even if the purpose is to make back-up copies for personal use, a California court ...

In a press conference earlier today, 321 Studios founder Robert Moore announced they were going to appeal last Fridays ruling against the company (a replay of the webcast can be found on the company's ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just bought a Sony laptop with a DVD-RW drive. I'm looking for some software to copy some DVDs that I own so we have back up copys because they tend to get scratched very easily in my household.