Macrovision on Tuesday released a new DVD copy-protection technology in hopes of substantially broadening its role in Hollywood's antipiracy effort. The content-protection company is pointing to the ...

As you are probably aware, almost all commercial DVDs are embedded with software to prevent them being copied. That software, called "content scrambling system" (CSS), not only prevents users from ...

In a ruling made public today, the Paris Court of Appeal has decided (English translation here) that the Content Scrambling System used to copy protect the contents of DVDs is trumped by the fair use ...

September 27, 2007 In a move designed to help combat DVD piracy the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA), the group responsible for the licensing of the Content Scramble System (CSS), has cleared ...

A US company selling software called DVD X Copy which bypasses copyright protection mechanisms on DVDs has complied with a Californian court order to rid the software of its “ripper”. Since the court ...

For the first time, commercial vendors and individual consumers will be able to legally create CSS copy-protected DVDs for playback on existing DVD players. The Board of Directors of the DVD Copy ...

Budget software house Serif is the latest company to make a big splash about a program for copying DVDs which, when you look at the small print, can't actually copy the very DVDs most people are very ...

RealNetworks will soon let users rip DVDs to their hard drives -- legally. The company will be unveiling the RealDVD software at Monday's DEMOfall conference in San Diego, but CNET got an early look ...

Want to make backup copies of your DVDs? This utility, normally $35.95, will clone even copy-protected discs. But act fast: the offer expires at the end of the day. Rick Broida is the author of ...