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02-23-2004, 04:59 PM
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Robert Moore (news), founder of a maker of software that lets people copy DVDs, said on Monday he expected an injunction barring his product from being sold would remain in effect despite his plans to request a stay and to file an appeal.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday ruled that DVD copying software sold by Moore's privately held 321 Studios violates U.S. copyright law, and the judge ordered 321 to stop selling the product within seven days.
The case, which pits privately held 321 against Hollywood's major studios, has been closely watched by the software and entertainment industries as a test of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (news - web sites).
The studios had argued 321's software was illegal because it thwarted the security software used to secure DVD movies. For its part, 321 had argued that its users had the right to make back-up copies of their DVDs for personal use.
321, based in a suburb of St. Louis, said on Friday it would appeal U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston's decision and seek a stay to the injunction so it could continue selling its software in its current form.
"We do not expect the injunction to be stayed," Moore told reporters in a teleconference. "I'm very confused by the order. It is extremely adversarial to our position."
Moore said the appeal and request for a stay would be "presented today or in the next day or two, and certainly before Friday (Feb. 27) when the injunction is supposed to take full force and effect."
But he also said he thought Judge Illston would reject the stay "immediately" and that an appeals court would also reject the request for a stay.
"I'm feeling quite disappointed and disenchanted by the process," Moore said.
The 321 founder and president repeated that he would comply with Judge Illston's order. He said 321 was retooling its product, DVDXCOPY, so that it does not contain the "ripper" software that allows it to circumvent copyright protection coding on a DVD.
This new version will be available for sale after Friday and would allow users to perform many tasks necessary to copy DVDs. Other "Ripper" software can be found and downloaded from the Internet, Moore said
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Robert Moore (news), founder of a maker of software that lets people copy DVDs, said on Monday he expected an injunction barring his product from being sold would remain in effect despite his plans to request a stay and to file an appeal.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday ruled that DVD copying software sold by Moore's privately held 321 Studios violates U.S. copyright law, and the judge ordered 321 to stop selling the product within seven days.
The case, which pits privately held 321 against Hollywood's major studios, has been closely watched by the software and entertainment industries as a test of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (news - web sites).
The studios had argued 321's software was illegal because it thwarted the security software used to secure DVD movies. For its part, 321 had argued that its users had the right to make back-up copies of their DVDs for personal use.
321, based in a suburb of St. Louis, said on Friday it would appeal U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston's decision and seek a stay to the injunction so it could continue selling its software in its current form.
"We do not expect the injunction to be stayed," Moore told reporters in a teleconference. "I'm very confused by the order. It is extremely adversarial to our position."
Moore said the appeal and request for a stay would be "presented today or in the next day or two, and certainly before Friday (Feb. 27) when the injunction is supposed to take full force and effect."
But he also said he thought Judge Illston would reject the stay "immediately" and that an appeals court would also reject the request for a stay.
"I'm feeling quite disappointed and disenchanted by the process," Moore said.
The 321 founder and president repeated that he would comply with Judge Illston's order. He said 321 was retooling its product, DVDXCOPY, so that it does not contain the "ripper" software that allows it to circumvent copyright protection coding on a DVD.
This new version will be available for sale after Friday and would allow users to perform many tasks necessary to copy DVDs. Other "Ripper" software can be found and downloaded from the Internet, Moore said