A COURT in California will this month rule on the legality of an ingenious new software package that makes perfect copies of movies on DVDs even if they are protected with the latest anti-copying technology.
The software has been developed by 321 Studios of St Louis, Missouri. The company says its DVDXcopy program does not violate the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which makes it illegal to defeat copy-protection schemes.
According to 321, the software is legitimate because it doesn’t do anything that the DVD’s copy protection is designed to prevent.
The movie on a DVD is stored as digital…
