Another Suit Filed in DVD Copying Software.

[CriticalBill6966]

September 17, 2003 - The battle over DVD copying continues as Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox sued Tritton Technologies to prevent the company from releasing its DVD CopyWare, which would allow users to make perfect copies of a DVD movie.

The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks a court order stopping Irvine, California-based company from distributing the software and it seeks unspecified damages. Three Web site operators that offer to sell various DVD-copying software are also named as defendants in the suit.

The suit alleges that the defendants violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which bars creating or distributing technology that can be used to circumvent copyright protections on software, movies and music.

The case was filed in New York because the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has previously ruled that the DMCA does not infringe on free speech protections of the U.S. Constitution. Rulings by the Second Circuit are binding on cases filed in Manhattan federal court.

Freeware DVD ripping software is readily available on the Internet to anyone smart enough to do a Google search, but few companies have dared go into business selling DeCSS-based software.

DVD CopyWare was created by U.K.-based Redxpress and is similar to DVD Copy Plus and DVD X-copy from 321 Studios, which has been sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
-- Andy Patrizio

Link (http://dvd.ign.com/articles/450/450403p1.html)

I'm I wrong to think copying movies isn't bad? I think it should be fine as long as you don't make a profit from it. No one made a fit when VCR's came out. Hook two together, hit play, hit record......there you go, your very own copy of Navy Seals 2.

[SweetToothBile]

I think it's bad. There is a huge difference in copying/downloading movies and copying/downloading music. When someone downloads music, it usually opens new doors for them (unless theyre just a cheapass and refuse to pay for a CD..). I found about 85% of all the music I listen to and all the CDs I purchase to be from checking them out on Kazaa or (at the time) Napster.

Movie piracy is different. You cannot really open doors with it, since once a movie is watched, its pretty much watched and over with (which is the case with most movies).

The biggest problem I see is that if people start copying movies, the DVD prices will go up. I like buying DVDs, I get a (strangly) huge kick out of bargain hunting for DVDs and spending money on them. I really dont want the prices to go up though. So overall, I think that DVD piracy is bad. My 2 cents.

[Psychocandy]

I'll admit it. I do copy movies for myself. I rent them from the video shop and take a copy. However, I still spend as much money as I ever did on DVDs to add to my collection of originals. The amount of money I spend on new DVDs is actually more than I can honestly afford as is. I'm not saying what i'm doing is right. But if I didn't copy these movies then I would never buy them anyway because I simply cannot afford to spend any more money on movies. I probably spend somewhere in the region of £50 - £60 a month as is...often more. That's my take on it. I don't profit from copying the movies because I don't sell copies on to anyone else. I just copy them for my own personal use.

[William_Shatner]

Originally posted by SweetToothBile
I think it's bad. There is a huge difference in copying/downloading movies and copying/downloading music. When someone downloads music, it usually opens new doors for them (unless theyre just a cheapass and refuse to pay for a CD..). I found about 85% of all the music I listen to and all the CDs I purchase to be from checking them out on Kazaa or (at the time) Napster.

Movie piracy is different. You cannot really open doors with it, since once a movie is watched, its pretty much watched and over with (which is the case with most movies).

The biggest problem I see is that if people start copying movies, the DVD prices will go up. I like buying DVDs, I get a (strangly) huge kick out of bargain hunting for DVDs and spending money on them. I really dont want the prices to go up though. So overall, I think that DVD piracy is bad. My 2 cents.


1.Thats not really true... Movie Piracy will not make the price of disc go up has it for CD? not what so ever it has actualy made CD drop. Piracy will alwais Exist and It has alwais Existed ( Remember the Proibition? BOOZ?) And Im not sure for every one but I watch a movie more then 1 normaly in the year following its release of to see the Dirc Com or Actors Com.

2. Now every says Piracy is hurintg the Industry BIG time!!! well then why the hell are the Box officed 4 to 5 times bigger every year??? Jesus I remeber when i was a kid a movie would make 20 million bucks and that was Amazing.

3. I dont download movies pers. But I do have a DVD burner and I Do copy movies of my friends. But I still own over 400 Purchased disc?? why you ask, well I only copy movies like TimeBandit from Criterion witch cost about 50 bucks CAD and kinda suck as a dics. But I do buy disc that are but 14.99 and I do buy disc like LOTR Extended.

This will alwais be an issue with people and it will alwais be ongoing, its pretty mucth propaganda from the Studios to make you think that what your doing is making them losse So mutch money that they might not make it threw the year.... Hmm Sur Viacom wont make it threw this year:)

Well thats how I think with the FACTS and like CD's I dont think DVD's will be any different.