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By John Borland
Posted on ZDNet News: May 20, 2004 9:46:00 PM

A New York federal judge has issued yet another sales ban against 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying software, this time on behalf of copy-protection company Macrovision. The ruling will have little practical impact on sales, because two previous court rulings have already blocked 321 Studios from selling the original version of its software, which could make perfect copies of Hollywood DVDs. The Missouri-based software company has already released a new version of the software stripped of the controversial capability, but it's appealing the earlier rulings.

Macrovision's claim differs from the earlier rulings, based on patent law as well as copyright law. Because the earlier injunctions were already in place, the judge did not address the new issues, however.

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Not much recourse
not enough ppl contact their govt reps or the companies involved to say how they feel (pro or con), and don't seem to care that in this field of music and movies, big biz has most of the deciding fact... (Read the rest)
Posted by: FilledOut Posted on: 05/21/04 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
someone explain to me.....  JoeMama_z | 05/20/04
Here's Jack's explanation.  James T. Kirk | 05/21/04
That's about right...  klmmicro | 05/21/04
thanks for the reply....  JoeMama_z | 05/21/04
Logic....  James T. Kirk | 05/21/04
Am I buying a license to use or a copy with a DVD movie?  drichards1953 | 05/21/04
Not much recourse  FilledOut | 05/21/04

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