321 Studios must stop selling its DVD copying software, ruled Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District Federal Court for California. The ruling is a huge win for the Motion Picture Association of America and its members, which include Disney, Sony Pictures, MGM, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers.
Judge Illston found 321’s […]

A group of Hollywood studios received good news when a judge hearing their case against 321 Studios, which makes software that allows consumers to make back-up copies of encrypted DVDs, said she was “substantially persuaded” by a pair of rulings that sided with the group’s argument that the software violates the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright […]

SAN JOSE, CA - On Monday proceedings began for the first trial to test the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., a software company based in Moscow, faces five counts of violating criminal provision of the law for conspiring, marketing and selling a product that cracks a security device by […]