Wednesday, 30. October 2002
Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:24:39 PM CET
Hollywood's version of Napster
DVDXCopy released next week
St. Louis-based 321 Studios, developer of DVD X Copy, plans to make the software available for download starting Monday at its site, dvdxcopy.com, for $100.
Hollywood insisted on having copy protection built into DVDs from the format's formative days. The only test was in 1999, when a Norwegian teen posted a program to get around the encryption. The Motion Picture Association of America successfully sued to have it removed from the Internet.
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