The case, which will be heard in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, holds important consequences not only for software developers and for the motion picture industry but also for consumers, who ...

After eight months of deliberation, a San Francisco federal judge has ruled that software company 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying products are illegal. In a ruling released Friday, Judge Susan ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sony Corp. and other U.S. movie studio owners may succeed in forcing DVD-copying products off the market after a federal judge indicated she may decide the products violate federal ...

A California appeals court on Wednesday tossed a trial judge’s ruling in favor of Kaleidescape Inc., a company that makes high-end home theater servers that copy and store movies from DVDs for later ...

ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri maker of DVD-copying products said Thursday it has appealed court rulings in New York and California that it stop making and marketing its software. The company, 321 Studios ...

Hollywood studios said Thursday that they have settled a lawsuit against ESS Technology, a multimedia chipmaker accused of illegally allowing its products to be used in DVD-copying devices. The Motion ...

NEW YORK — Court rulings have pulled the most popular software for copying DVD movies off the market, but a new program, already on sale at CompUSA and Wal-Mart, is trying to get around these rulings ...

Whether the public has a right to make a fair use copy of DVDs is on trial in a San Francisco federal court. Yet the public may never know whether the verdict was reached fairly because the presiding ...

An anonymous hacker known online as "Tron" is Hollywood's latest villain. Tron is the author of a piece of software called SmartRipper, which allows DVDs to be copied fairly easily to a computer hard ...

In the last year, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) won various legal injunctions in the U.S. against software firm 321 Studios, putting the company out of business. In light of these ...

A new technology from Macrovision Corp. claims to block virtually all known methods for making unauthorized copies of DVDs. The company's RipGuard DVD, launched this week, is designed to thwart ...

Velan Software has announced the release of Fast DVD Copy 4, its software for Mac OS X that allows users to copy DVD videos, audio CDs, PlayStation 2 games, DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs. New features in this ...