p2pnet - rss feed: 321 Studios meets the deadline
p2pnet.net News:- 321 Studios founder and ceo Bob Moore isn’t giving up.
After introducing three new lines recently, he was ordered to stop selling one of them - a DVD X Copy back-up app with a built-in ripper said to violate copyright laws.
MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Jack Valenti doesn’t see a problem.
“If you buy a DVD you have a copy,” he’s quoted as saying in an Associated Press report here. “If you want a backup copy you buy another one,”
Moore was given until Friday to stop selling the software. He did that and, started “rolling out retooled versions, then pledged an ambitious bid for consumers to shower Hollywood and lawmakers with outpourings in its defense,” says AP, going on:.
“The St. Louis-area company, 321 Studios Inc., hustled out a version of software that removes a built-in tool for descrambling movies, complying with an injunction issued Feb. 20 in California by a federal judge who found certain 321 products in violation of Hollywood studios’ copyrights.
In “Five Days of Protest” on Monday, users and potential users will be asked - through 321-sponsored www.protectfairuse.org - to write, call, e-mail or fax newspaper editors, Hollywood studios and federal lawmakers on the company’s behalf.
“It’s to let these people know we’re law-abiding citizens, not a bunch of pirates,” Moore says in the AP report. “This (software) is for making fair use of legally acquired digital property, for doing what we want to do with our own stuff. Apparently, that message has not gotten across.”
