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 company best known for bringing streaming video to the Internet back in 1997 has developed RealDVD, a new technology for legally copying commercial DVDs to your PC and storing them 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” ...

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 ...

Copying commercial DVDs for any reason whatsoever would be prohibited under a proposed amendment to the DVD copy protection license, as would playing DVD content without having the DVD physically ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has inserted itself temporarily into a DVD copying case that also holds significant implications for the jurisdiction of U.S. courts over certain Internet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Should an American software company be allowed to legally sell computer applications that enable the copying of commercial DVD discs? A company called 321 Studios, in Chesterfield, Mo., has filed ...

Remember RealDVD, that famous piece of paid software that let you simply and easily let you make a fair copy of a DVD onto your PC’s harddrive as a “personal” backup? It’s been killed by Hollywood’s ...