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 ...

Technology that prevents people from copying DVDs to videotape has disappeared from some versions of Warner Bros.' "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," raising new questions about Hollywood's anti ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Monday ruling suggests that educational institutions are entitled to stream legally purchased DVDs on campus without the permission of copyright holders. A federal ...

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 ...