RealNetworks Inc. plans to begin selling software that lets people copy DVDs to their PCs, which might be convenient for on-the-go movie buffs but could incite some wrath in Hollywood.

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RealNetworks Inc. is expected to announce today a new software program that will for the first time give consumers a simple and legal way to copy movies and TV shows from DVDs onto their computers.

321 said its DVD Copy Plus software, which was released last fall, makes a lower-quality copy of the DVD and does not back up the entire DVD, just the film itself.

After eight months of deliberation, a San Francisco federal judge has ruled that software company 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying products are illegal. In a ruling released Friday, Judge Susan ...

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It is even possible to copy the copy back to a hard drive, and then onto another blank DVD. Part of 321's case is that its product reinstates the right of consumers to back up their discs.

A company called 321 Studios, in Chesterfield, Mo., has filed legal action in a California federal district court to block the motion picture industry’s attempts to stop it from selling software that ...

LOS ANGELES – Hollywood's six major movie studios on Tuesday sued RealNetworks Inc. to prevent it from distributing DVD copying software that they said would allow consumers to "rent, rip and ...

Sony Corp. and other U.S. movie studio owners may succeed in forcing DVD-copying products off the market after a federal judge indicated she may decide the products violate federal copyright law.