Wekko bracht ons op de hoogte van dit News.com artikel, waarin geschreven wordt dat acht filmstudio's, waaronder Paramount, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox en Columbia Pictures, drie verspreiders van de DeCSS DVD copy software voor de rechter halen:
Eight major movie production studios, including Disney and Paramount Pictures, have asked a federal judge to stop three New Yorkers from distributing software that allows bootleggers to copy DVD film disks.In a suit filed today in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the studios charged the defendants have posted the software on their Web site along with messages encouraging DVD copying. The copying program, DeCSS, unscrambles a security code on DVDs that is supposed to prevent their duplication, said Richard Taylor, a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
"I am not responsible at all," said Roman Kazan, of Manhattan, one of the defendants.
[...] Kazan said he owns a company that hosts hundreds of Web sites, including two run by the other defendants, Shawn Reimerdes, also of Manhattan, and Eric Corley, of Setauket, New York. Reimerdes and Corley could not be reached for comment.
Deze rechtszaak komt bovenop de eerdere rechtszaak die de DVD Copy Control Association twee weken geleden tegen 72 DeCSS sites heeft aangespannen.