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EFF: Court Endorses Ban on DVD Copy Technology [321 Studios]
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:32:22 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:19:31 -0500 From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com> Subject: Fwd - EFF: Court Endorses Ban on DVD Copy Technology [321 Studios] To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/MGM_v_321Studios/20040220_eff_pr.php Court Endorses Ban on DVD Copy Technology Electronic Frontier Foundation Urges Digital Copyright Law Reform San Francisco - Consumers suffered a setback to their digital rights today when a California federal court sided with the major motion picture studios in ruling that a company creating tools people can use to make backup copies of their DVDs is liable under copyright law. Citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the court ordered 321 Studios, creator of DVD backup tools, to stop selling its DVD Copy Plus and DVD-X COPY products within seven days. 321 Studios is likely to appeal the ruling. [Source material at: http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/MGM_v_321Studios/ http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/MGM_v_321Studios/20040219_Order.pdf Read it and weep, folks. In the Order, every single geek argument is slammed, and slammed *hard*. In particular: "This Court finds, as did both the Corley and Elcom courts, that legal downstream use of the copyrighted material by customers is not a defense to the software manufacturer's violation of the provisions of - 1201 (b)(1)." Fair Use is no defense to the DMCA tools provision, sayeth that Court.] -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf () sethf com http://sethf.com Interview: http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0526234Seth Finkelstein's Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/
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