Online firm selling 321 software
p2pnet.net News:- Twentieth Century Fox Film and Paramount Pictures have sued an online retailer called Technology One, claiming it’s selling 321 Studios DVD-copying software contrary to federal court orders.
“Other retailers voluntarily halted sales of the software after federal judges in New York and California – at Hollywood’s behest – ordered 321 of suburban St. Louis to stop making and marketing it,” says an Associated Press story here.
To stop selling something because you’ll end up in court if you don’t is hardly a ‘voluntary’ action, and use of the word ‘behest’ is interesting too.
Be that as it may, “Technology One, by categorically refusing to comply with the studios’ cease-and-desist notices, will learn from the courts that by continuing to sell the banned software it is breaking the law,” proclaimed Jim Spertus, vp and chief of the MPAA’s domestic anti-piracy operations, according to the AP story, which goes on:
“A worker at California-based Technology One, who refused to identify himself, said he was unaware of the lawsuit but that ‘nobody ever told us to stop selling’ the questioned software. That employee said Technology One no longer has the software in stock, though the company’s Web site – www.save365.com – suggests otherwise.”
When we went for a look at 7:50 am Pacific, the site was down.
321 ceo and founder Bob Moore testified at the recent Congressional hearing into the Fair Rights bill.
Rick Boucher and John Doolittle re-introduced their Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act (DMCRA, HR 107) which would enact labelling requirements for ‘usage-impaired copy-protected’ compact discs, as well as amendments to Hollywood’s infamous 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
HR 107 would allow people to by-pass DRM systems to make copies for personal use, and would also let academics do the same for research purposes.
June 12th, 2004 at 1:35 pm
You have to remember that in this country only a few people control it. Small business is not one of them.