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 ...

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 ...

A California appeals court on Wednesday tossed a trial judge’s ruling in favor of Kaleidescape Inc., a company that makes high-end home theater servers that copy and store movies from DVDs for later ...

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s six major movie studios Tuesday sued Seattle-based RealNetworks to prevent it from distributing DVD-copying software they said would allow consumers to “rent, rip and return” ...

For the first time, commercial vendors and individual consumers will be able to legally create CSS copy-protected DVDs for playback on existing DVD players. The Board of Directors of the DVD Copy ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Macrovision released a new DVD copy-protection technology that it hopes will substantially ...

RealNetworks Inc. is expected to announce today a new software program that will for the first time give consumers a simple and legal way to copy movies and TV shows from DVDs onto their computers.

SAN FRANCISCO -- 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 ...

The six big motion picture studios Tuesday won a major legal victory against DVD copying. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel issued a preliminary injunction blocking the sale of RealDVD, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO --Hollywood studios and a company that makes DVD-copying software faced off in federal court here on Thursday in a case that could determine the public's fair-use rights for digital ...

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 ...