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Hollywood Sues Retailer for Piracy

By Jim Suhr, AP Business Writer

May 28, 2004

ST. LOUIS—Two Hollywood movie studios have sued an online retailer, accusing Technology One of defiantly selling DVD-copying software previously barred by two federal courts.

The lawsuit, filed in New York by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and Paramount Pictures Corp., marks the first time a movie company has sued a retailer of the forbidden software by 321 Studios Inc.

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.

Hollywood studios long have insisted that DVD-copying products violate the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bars circumvention of anti-piracy measures used to protect DVDs and other technology.

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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1603759,00.asp

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:reallymad:

This is pushing me even closer to doing an all-out boycott of the MPAA.

Hollywood had better change their attitudes towards technology and "fair use" rights, or their eventual fate will be going down in flames like the record industry.

www.boycott-mpaa.com does not exist yet, but someday it might.

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  • 3 weeks later...
Update to this ongoing saga: Now apparently the Video game manufacturers are sueing 321 Studios over their software Game Xcopy and it looks as though 321 might soon be filing for bankruptcy.

Yep.

Sad. isn't it? :(

Big money is trying to win out over fair use.

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yep, it's sad. I hope they are doing it as tactic and are not really broke. Years ago I knew a crook and that's what he would do. When the heat got to much he would bankrupt out the company and then open under a different name the next day. Same business, employees, and location. It was the damnedest thing I had ever seen. :)

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