As portable music players are fast-becoming portable media players, users are looking for ways to make their movies as mobile as their music. Entrenched in copyright issues, the ability to copy DVDs to a computer isn't as much 'desktop' issue as it is a courtroom one.
Earlier this month, media software company Real introduced RealDVD, a product designed to let users copy movies to their computers for playback and storage. Just hours after making the software available, Real has lawyered-up and is preparing to battle the major movie studios in court.
Real claims their copyright protection measures are compliant with the DVD Copy Control Association's guidelines, as they've added a feature which restricts playback of copied DVD to the owner's computer, preventing it from being illegally distributed. But before the movie studios could file their lawsuit, Real filed first.
Real's suit is asking that a court rule, officially, that RealDVD falls in line with the DVD CCA's guidelines, before the studios' suit stops the distribution of the software.
It seems that no matter how this case ends up, DVD-ripping is working its way to the masses and will no longer be strictly for gadget guys and other technically-inclined sects.
[via RealNetworks]
Real's suit is asking that a court rule, officially, that RealDVD falls in line with the DVD CCA's guidelines, before the studios' suit stops the distribution of the software.
It seems that no matter how this case ends up, DVD-ripping is working its way to the masses and will no longer be strictly for gadget guys and other technically-inclined sects.
[via RealNetworks]
