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321 Studios fights lawsuit in UK

321 Studios, the company known for its DVD X Copy product family has submitted its response to legal actions taken against it in the United Kingdom. It is 321's intention to fight the lawsuit filed by Warner Home Video all the way.

The company is facing similar lawsuits from several major film studios in the United States. The studios argue that 321 Studios' products are tools for pirates to make copies of copy protected movies. 321 Studios, on the other hand, insists that consumers have the right to make backups of products they have purchased legally. Furthermore DVD X Copy tools cannot be used for pirating large volumes of movies practically. Each copy is digitally watermarked, and backups of backups are not allowed.



"We believe we have a solid argument, and that our customers have the right to make back-ups of legally purchased DVDs for their own personal use," said 321 Studios CEO Rob Semaan. "We will fight it all the way, and are certainly not prepared to take it lying down or shut up shop and go away."

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Source:
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Written by: Jari Ketola @ 24 Oct 2003 15:48

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• Ghostdog

  Aren´t their predecent cases that show what judges think about this type of lawsuits?
  The P2P application developers were found to be unresponsible for the crimes of the their customers.
  This is exactly the same case as with VCR´s, you can use them to make illegal recordings but the maker of the VCR can´t be held responsible for that.

  25.10.2003 10:03 #1

• baggins1

  Not sure about this but i believe that here in the uk if you make a vhs tape of a film or any tv programme you are obliged by lay to erase it after so many days. If so that could well be the way around copy laws for vhs but it can't work that way with dvd.
  Anyone know any more on this?

  26.10.2003 08:07 #2

• bossins

  well i for one will donate to the cause of
  321!!!!

  27.10.2003 04:25 #3

• Toiletman

  Y'know these lawsuits are practically the same as suing the gun making company, e.g. Koch and Hekler, because someone killed an entire family with a MP5K.
  

  When you are on your deathbed, you will wonder, "Did I waste my life? Was it worth spending all that time on that?" Do not despair, no one has wasted their life. After all, you can only waste something if you throw it away. And you can't throw life away.

  27.10.2003 13:45 #4

• baggins1

  The nut behind the butt!!!

  27.10.2003 22:12 #5

• oracle

  Well, I remember 30 years ago when some brillant heads proposed to forbit the selling of audio cassets in order to prevent the copying of audio tracks from vinyl discs to tape recorders.
  Allas!!!

  28.10.2003 00:23 #6

• Ghostdog

  These anti-piracy measures are taking such sick proportions that I can hardly beleive it. It´s like they´re desperately trying to ban eveything that could possibly lead to piracy, all our rights could be taken away.

  28.10.2003 00:38 #7

• jonnydoe.

  Yeah go for the big criminals who make millions from bulk copying not individuals who innocently want to backup the occasional dvd in case of damage.
  

  www.mp3.com/adsr - I produce various styles of electronic music.

  28.10.2003 05:24 #8

• mafiaman

  Can you watch it happening?
  

  
  Athlon XP 2400+
  MSI KT4V
  256 PC266 DDR RAM
  80 GIG IBM 7,000 RPM
  RADEON 9200SE 128 DDR
  Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
  Pioneer 105 4x DVD-R
  Modded Light Case
  And it'

  28.10.2003 09:02 #9

• jonnydoe.

  Insurance will pay for it! lmao
  

  www.mp3.com/adsr - I produce various styles of electronic music.

  29.10.2003 04:07 #10

• Ghostdog

  I can picture this headline in just a few years time (max.):
  "RIAA to ban child birth because studies show this leads to an increase of piracy".

  29.10.2003 05:47 #11

• baggins1

  This is serious! in England they can't take us to court (the RIAA that is ) and our own equivalant has no plans to do so just yet,rather focusing on educating people not to make illegal dvd's etc. However if the American courts keep on hammering people i think it will soon happen here. So i will be writing to my member of parliament to try and pre empt this and hope you all do the same because complaining on a news group or forum is no use!!!

  29.10.2003 10:05 #12