Bid to Suspend DVD Net Copier Denied
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —
A judge on Wednesday denied an electronics industry group’s bid to temporarily halt distribution of software that removes security encryption from DVD videos.
The DVD Copy Control Assn. is suing to prevent 72 Web site programmers from making the software available on the Internet. Without comment, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Elfving denied the group’s request.
The software allows users to unlock the security code on DVDs and copy movies to personal computers.
The group alleges that the act is an unauthorized use of its trade secrets. But many site programmers said they were simply providing software to play DVDs on computers.
