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Paramount Pictures and Twenieth Century Fox have filed for an injunction in New York to bar Internet Enterprises Inc., RDestiny LLC, HowtocopyDVDs.com, DVDBackupbuddy.com and DVDSqueeze.com from selling DVD copying software. Meanwhile the lawsuit against 321 Studio is in court in San Francisco.

The movie studios argue that they could be losing billions of dollars in the future, if DVD copying software, such as DVD X Copy XPRESS are ruled legal. The manufacturers of the software feel that consumers should have the right to take backup copies of the movies they own under the "fair use" provisions of the copyright law, and even circumvent copy protections when doing so.



Source:
Reuters

Written by: Lasse Penttinen @ 16 May 2003 13:40