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profound impact on many aspects of society. Interbeing provides links
to emerging IP stories with a focus on law, technology and culture.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
3...2...1....crash and burn
Our fellow St. Louis-based company, 321 Studios, has been pushed out of business by the intellectual property worshipping courts. Their DVDXcopy software allowed users to break copy protection on DVDs so they could make back up copies. Believe it or not, some unscrupulous users traded the video files that were created by the software on the internet!
It blows my mind that the courts will ban software that has a perfectly legitimate use, just because some people use it for illegal activity, when you can go out and buy a semi-automatic weapon. Let's see, on the one hand movie companies MAY lose a little money and on the other hand PEOPLE GET MURDERED.
Software doesn't steal intellectual property, people do.
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Our fellow St. Louis-based company, 321 Studios, has been pushed out of business by the intellectual property worshipping courts. Their DVDXcopy software allowed users to break copy protection on DVDs so they could make back up copies. Believe it or not, some unscrupulous users traded the video files that were created by the software on the internet!
It blows my mind that the courts will ban software that has a perfectly legitimate use, just because some people use it for illegal activity, when you can go out and buy a semi-automatic weapon. Let's see, on the one hand movie companies MAY lose a little money and on the other hand PEOPLE GET MURDERED.
Software doesn't steal intellectual property, people do.
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Their liquidation goes to pay those who put them under:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=6&u=/pcworld/20040810/tc_pcworld/117314
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: August 11, 2004 at 10:57 AM
: August 11, 2004 at 10:57 AM
There's a story in the STL business journal about it today.
http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2004/08/09/daily37.html
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