RealNetworks Pulls ‘Legal’ DVD Copying Software
Just over a week after RealNetworks launched its ‘100% legal’ DVD copying software, RealDVD, the company has been forced by US courts to pull it temporarily. It looks like the fact that the company is being sued by 6 Hollywood heavyweight movie studios has taken the shine off RealDVD’s claim of allowing you to ‘legally’ rip DVDs onto your PC. In fact, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney studio and Warner Bros are all claiming that RealDVD will encourage us honest folk to rent and rip DVDs rather than buy them. As if .The RealDVD site has been down since October 3 but the message reads: “Rest assured, we will continue to work diligently to provide you with software that allows you to make a legal copy of your DVDs for your own use.” Just don’t hold your breath since Hollywood’s not all that big on allowing anyone to copy anything and has the deep pockets needed to keep this thing bouncing from court to court for some time.-Martin Lynch [RealDVD] software DVD movies

