We all know that bit about a "speedy trial" doesn't exactly come to fruition in most cases, and after three excruciating years of
battling innovation stranglers the DVD Copy Control Association,
Kaleidescape has escaped unscathed. The firm's DVD ripping / streaming jukebox was under fire for obvious reasons, as it not only encouraged the ripping of "protected content," but it helped users rip and transmit the data around their network. The DVD CCA whined that the machine "breached a contract" when it crafted a product that enabled users to copy its locked-down material onto hard-drive based servers -- the judge, however, felt otherwise. In fact, it was ruled that "nothing in the DVD CCA licensing agreement prohibits the development of products that allow users to copy their DVDs," thus, no contract was breached at all. One down,
too many to go.
posted Mar 30th 2007 1:01AM
I'm sure the judge looked at the price of this system (which is as much as a BMW 3-series) and said "hey, if they spend that much on the thing, would they really be so cheap as to copy and pirate DVDs?" j/k, of course.
Still, I've drooled over these systems since I first saw them. Very shiny.