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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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