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Real DVD ban extended
A US JUDGE has extended the restraining order against Real Networks' Real DVD software while she has a think about the whole business.
District Court Judge Marilyn Patel wants to know more about how the software works and will spend a month being courted by the opposing sides in the dispute
Six Hollywood studios and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are comlaining that the product "circumvents the copyright protection built into DVDs".
Real said the claim is cobblers and has filed a countersuit.
Founder Rob Glaser said: "It is clearly legal. Over a year ago in the Kaleidescape case the court ruled that a hardware product with very similar functionality was legal." µ
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The lack of commercial software that does backing up, forces people to use other means to do so. And that other means has no limitations on what it can do and the other means to make backups aka dvd shrink totally bypasses copy protection and makes it ready for dumping on the internet if people want to.

How can they complain about real networks software? even when it backs up, it makes it so the copy is locked to the pc. I guess they could go one step further and make the copy expire in 3 days. Its not like all computers are portable, so you wont be sharing your pc with others during that time, and who would share a pc just becuase a dvd is on it etc as pcs and laptops are expensive and hard to live without. So I don't see how anyones getting screwed.


In my opinions Real networks software is great. It lets people do what they need to do with out making trouble. These days people like to take a copy of a dvd with them on a trip or/ watch there dvd later.And that copy on the pc is not pernament becuase it uses a lot of space, and people will want there hdd space back. the neat thing is the copy is fixed to the pc.



When I go on a trip I like to have my dvds with me, but who wants to take 5+ discs with me that can get lost or scratched. So it would be good to take a digital copy. THis is hte next best thing as you are allowed to backup your data its your legal right, even though they make it tough for you to do that.
No, they understand perfectly well what Real are doing... cutting out an additional purchase of their members content. After all if you want a digital copy on your PC, you should pay *again* for it - and if you want it on another machine... you need to pay MORE, on a Mac? Fork out again thanks. That's all it's really about.

If MPAA and studios could charge per-person watching a DVD per playback, I am sure that they would!

It's greed, pure and simple.
Even though we don't like it, the bottom line is that making a copy is il-legal. The software bypasses the protection in order to create a copy.

Simple as.
I can't remember the last time I wanted to use RealPlayer, or the last time I even did. But way to go Real! Don't let Hollywood stop you!
I hope that we see this follow what appears to be a legal precedent with the Kaleidescape case.

On the other hand, it is not uncommon for folks to have two vastly differing views of hardware and software.

They usually see one as a mechanical device to perform a task [whether it is electronic or not]. And tend to see software as some weird bunch of evil, manipulative gremlins, with the sole purpose of destroying worlds and depleting profits - neatly supplied on optical media.

Let's not get into the argument of how some people view 'downloaded' software! Ooooooh, the unbridled evil of it all....!

I hope the Judge uses her noggin and sees this case for what it appears to be, again. An excercise in bullying and control for fear of last profit.

Maybe the MPAA just don't understand what it is that Real are trying to do here.