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Hollywood's war on open source

...of a barrage of DVD lawsuits. He had been accused by the DVD Copy Control Association of the theft of trade secrets for linking to... Read more

28 February, 2000 by Lisa M Bowman

Judge sides with Hollywood in RealDVD ruling

...by doing so breaches its (Content Scramble System) License Agreement with the (DVD Copy Control Association, the group that oversees the protection of DVDs for... Read more

12 August, 2009 by Greg Sandoval

RealNetworks files antitrust motion against MPAA

...In the latest filing, Real accuses the studios as well as the DVD Copy Control Association, a group dedicated to protecting DVDs from piracy, of... Read more

14 May, 2009 by Greg Sandoval

DVD technology faces legal test

The DVD Copy Control Association, the group that owns the copy-protection technology contained... Read more

8 December, 2004 by John Borland

DVD chipmakers sued by Hollywood

...reading technology is controlled by a Hollywood-affiliated technology group called the DVD Copy Control Association, or DVD CCA. Any chipmaker or DVD player that... Read more

24 August, 2004 by John Borland

US court: Reverse engineering is 'presumptively legal'

...California for trade secrets that become widely distributed online. The plaintiff, the DVD Copy Control Association, had argued that Andrew Bunner violated its intellectual property... Read more

1 March, 2004 by Evan Hansen

DVD copier faces another lawsuit

The DVD Copy Control Association, a Hollywood-backed technology group, filed a lawsuit against... Read more

16 February, 2004 by John Borland

Arguments presented in DVD cracking case

...to run for governor next year, appeared on the side of the DVD Copy Control Association, which is arguing that the posting of the code... Read more

30 May, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Supreme Court backs off DVD case

...in 1999 against scores of people, including Pavlovich, who posted DeCSS. The DVD Copy Control Association's (DVDCCA) suit alleged violations of California's trade... Read more

6 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Small victory for studios in DVD-copying case

...1999 against scores of activists who posted the DeCSS.exe utility. The DVD Copy Control Association's (DVDCCA) suit alleged violations of California's trade... Read more

3 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Alleged DeCSS hacker faces two years

...which one would like to settle through a test case." The US DVD Copy Control Association and the Norwegian Motion Picture Association lobbied for the... Read more

10 December, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Court blocks DVD-cracking suit

...there. Monday's case is one of a handful filed by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA) -- a trade group that controls the licences... Read more

26 November, 2002 by John Borland

Harry Potter at the mercy of pirates

Copy protection on some new DVDs seems to have disappeared, raising questions about the film industry's anti-piracy plans Read more

21 June, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

DeCSS case runs into California roadblock

...The movie industry is represented in the case by a group called DVD Copy Control Association. A spokesman for the group declined to comment, saying... Read more

18 December, 2000 by Evan Hansen

Stop wearing our DVD code!

...a lawsuit claiming defendants co-opted the secrets behind DVD encryption. The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) on Monday added Copyleft to a California... Read more

2 August, 2000 by Robert Lemos

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