So once again Hollywood is going to court in the US to fight against copying of DVD movies. Who are they targeting this time? The bootleggers who make hundreds of copies to sell and make a quick dollar? No. They are fighting Real Networks (the company behind the “Real Player”) who offered a program in the states to allow people to make up to five copies of DVDs they owned. This was to allow people to keep original discs safe from scratches (just about any disc younger kids get a hold of) or to store on your laptop’s hard-drive to watch without running the battery down by spinning the disc drive for the length of a movie. Digital music stores like iTunes (“iTunes Plus“) and Bigpond Music are starting to realise that there isn’t much point to DRM protected songs (after all, there’s no DRM on CDs that anyone can rip into MP3 tracks). When is Hollywood going to wake-up?
See these links for more; RealDVD – Litigation update, Blogs and PodCasts.
