http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/ Engadget Comments for Court injunction puts sales of RealDVD on ice, hopes and dreams in purgatory http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
I didn't know Digital video Discs were analog.]]>Aug 12th 2009 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/also, fyi, DVD is short for Digital Versatile Disc, but it's a common mistake]]>Aug 12th 2009 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/]]>Aug 12th 2009 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
In other words, Greg - well, DDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH.]]>Aug 12th 2009 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
We really need back the days of Sony (the OLD non-movie-company version of Sony) fighting the MPAA over Betamax. Today there is no notable corporate power fighting for fair use, so we get the DMCA and worse. To make matters worse, Sony is, and Apple is becoming, a media company, so they have less interest in selling boxes people want vs. selling or renting movies.

A useful variation on anti-trust would be to make it illegal for content companies to sell playback hardware and software, and vise versa. That way there would at least be a balance of power of sorts. At one point there was faint hope that Intel and Microsoft might carry the fair-use torch, but the reality is that they have been more than disappointing at that.]]>Aug 12th 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
We really need back the days of Sony (the OLD non-movie-company version of Sony) fighting the MPAA over Betamax. Today there is no notable corporate power fighting for fair use, so we get the DMCA and worse. To make matters worse, Sony is, and Apple is becoming, a media company, so they have less interest in selling boxes people want vs. selling or renting movies.

A useful variation on anti-trust would be to make it illegal for content companies to sell playback hardware and software, and vise versa. That way there would at least be a balance of power of sorts. At one point there was faint hope that Intel and Microsoft might carry the fair-use torch, but the reality is that they have been more than disappointing at that.]]>Aug 12th 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.telestream.net/drive-in/overview.htm

What's the difference?]]>Aug 12th 2009 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
Probably falls into the category of (don't hate) : It's just Apple Software and their 8% market, so who cares.... for now. ]]>Aug 12th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/2. they are copying the dvd as it. in a disk image with all the copy protection included. from what I understand about RealDVD, it strips the protections.

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We all understand that the penalty for copyright infringement is severe (22k awarded for individual songs in the latest case as an example) so why do we need another law that does nothing more then make criminals of normal people who would otherwise be trying to express their fair-use rights? Distributing copyrighted content without consent of the copyright holder is already against the law and all the copy protection restrictions are not slowing down the trafficking of copyrighted content. Those who traffic content simply ignore this law and bypass these 'digital locks' on content with ease. When it comes to consumer benefit, the restrictions imposed on commercial content (DVDs, Blu-Ray, iTunes Video files etc) make it a less desirable alternative to even the paid-for bootleg content that does not impose limitations on how you can use the content after you purchase it. An average user would have to violate the DMCA to do something simple such as copy an episode of their favorite tv show off a dvd for use on his ipod verses buy a version of the digital content that has no restrictions (no digital locks) and be able to transfer the content to a different medium (such as the ipod).

I am no law professor but I understand the basis of copyright law and it permits the creation of a backup for archival purposes. If the 'fair use copy' exceptions are not amended to the DMCA and Real looses its case with the MPAA in regards to their REALDVD software (which indecently the case should be thrown out due to the previous case with the 10k jukebox company). Cant someone sue the Courts, MPAA, and even the Judge in the RealDVD case for ignoring the consumer side of copyright law? 98.99% of Americans are not FOR the DMCA. We need to ban together and collectively sue everyone who PUSHED the DMCA for violating OUR rights under the consumer side of copyright law. I doubt that there is a single american who does not work for the movie companies who would not join the fight agansed the DMCA. Most people don't even know what the DMCA is; Inform the UNinformed about how the DMCA makes it illegal for you to create a backup copy of content that you have the legal right to create. The DMCA issues run deeper then DVD copying, the issue is being able to do as you please (without trafficking content) with purchased content.]]>Aug 12th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
Best use of the work trifilin' ever...]]>Aug 12th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
The DMCA addresses circumvention of copy protection.]]>Aug 12th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/
Kaleidescape loses appeal.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351510,00.asp]]>Aug 12th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/court-injunction-puts-sales-of-realdvd-on-ice-hopes-and-dreams/Aug 12th 2009 6:48PM