NewsMay 29, 2004
Two studios sue seller of software that copies DVDs
ST. LOUIS -- Two Hollywood movie studios have sued an online retailer, accusing Technology One of selling DVD-copying software previously barred by two federal courts. The lawsuit, filed in New York by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and Paramount Pictures Corp., marks the first time a movie company has sued a retailer of the forbidden software by 321 Studios Inc...
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS -- Two Hollywood movie studios have sued an online retailer, accusing Technology One of selling DVD-copying software previously barred by two federal courts.
The lawsuit, filed in New York by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and Paramount Pictures Corp., marks the first time a movie company has sued a retailer of the forbidden software by 321 Studios Inc.
Other retailers voluntarily halted sales of the software after federal judges in New York and California ordered 321 of suburban St. Louis to stop making and marketing it. Since those rulings, 321 has removed the software component required to descramble movies.
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The company has argued its products merely guarantee consumers fair use of the movies they've bought, including backing up copies of children's movies in case the originals get scratched.
On the Net:
321 Studios, www.321studios.com
Motion Picture Association of America, www.mpaa.org
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