A California appeals court on Wednesday tossed a trial judge’s ruling in favor of Kaleidescape Inc., a company that makes high-end home theater servers that copy and store movies from DVDs for later ...

Is there a good way to make a backup copy of a DVD in Linux. On Windows, I know others who use DVD X Copy, or one of it's replacements and it works nicely, copying menus and everything. Is there ...

Hollywood studios said Thursday that they have settled a lawsuit against ESS Technology, a multimedia chipmaker accused of illegally allowing its products to be used in DVD-copying devices. The Motion ...

What is the best format to rip DVD? There is no single answer to this question. If you want to convert DVD for playback on a mobile device, MP4 is a good choice. If you want to create a 1:1 copy to ...

San Diego-based RealNetworks on Monday unveiled RealDVD, a PC application that lets consumers save their DVDs to their hard drive to watch later without lugging around the physical discs. In a ...

Fair use? What’s that? It’s something you’ll someday be telling your kids once existed at the rate things are going. That’s because there’s a proposed amendment to current copy protection licenses ...

An anonymous hacker known online as "Tron" is Hollywood's latest villain. Tron is the author of a piece of software called SmartRipper, which allows DVDs to be copied fairly easily to a computer hard ...

RealNetworks and the major movie studios are gathering in San Francisco’s U.S. District Court on Friday to, possibly, determine the fate of DVD copying. RealNetworks would like to sell its $30 RealDVD ...

321 Studios has released an upgrade to its DVD copying software despite still being embroiled in a court case over the software’s legality. The company announced Friday that DVD X Copy Gold, an ...

In the last year, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) won various legal injunctions in the U.S. against software firm 321 Studios, putting the company out of business. In light of these ...

In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath of the movie industry, a small software company is asking a federal judge for permission to sell and market its product for copying DVDs. In a complaint ...