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  • RealNetworks settles RealDVD lawsuit: Has to cough up $4.5 million, stop supporting the software

    RealNetworks settles RealDVD lawsuit: Has to cough up $4.5 million, stop supporting the software

    Right around the time the world's financial markets started to collapse, back in 2008, RealNetworks, the folks behind RealPlayer, released RealDVD. It was a short-lived piece of software that made making DVD movie backups fairly painless—too painless for Hollywood, which immediately took RealNetworks to court, claiming all sorts of copyright infringement hokum. That's all in the past now, for RealNetworks has settled with the six "major" Hollywood studios to the sum of $4.5 million. Ouch.

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  • Judge: RealDVD is totally illegal as per the DMCA

    Judge: RealDVD is totally illegal as per the DMCA

    Yesterday, August 11, wasn't just Joe Rogan's birthday. Nope, it was also the date when a judge in San Francisco ruled that RealDVD was illegal, and reiterated that it was illegal to manufacture or traffic software that makes it possible to copy DVDs. So, every time you fire up DVD Copier on your PC, make a copy of a DVD that you bought, well, you're breaking the law. The DMCA just keeps on giving, doesn't it?

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