EA, Atari Sue Over Videogame Copying Software 409
Thanks to the Monterey Herald/AP for its news story regarding EA, Atari, and VU Games' lawsuit against the makers of the Games X Copy backup software. The article explains: "The federal lawsuit [PDF version], filed Tuesday in New York, alleges that Games X Copy software by 321 Studios Inc. of suburban St. Louis violates copyright laws by illegally cracking copy-protection systems used by [PC] game makers." Doug Lowenstein of the ESA trade body, also backing the lawsuits, explains: "I wouldn't get into speculating on dollar losses here. What's at stake here is a rather important legal principle - that products with no purpose other than to circumvent copyright protection are illegal under the DMCA." The piece also notes that "Federal judges in New York and California have barred 321 from marketing... [similar] DVD-cloning software - a victory for movie studios, which contended that such products violate the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
angry (Score:2, Funny)
DMCA (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe... (Score:4, Funny)
Could someone please (Score:5, Funny)
Re:321 Studios (Score:4, Funny)
Re:On the subject... (Score:5, Funny)
In the meantime, your wife will be open-sourcing her vagina because your penis doesn't meet her system requirements.
Games X Copy sucks! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I want the second disc damnit! (Score:2, Funny)
Apparently you wouldn't know a whole in the ground from a hole in the ground.
Re:A bit of Apple ][ nostalgia (Score:3, Funny)
Mushroom! Mushroom!
Re:On the subject... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, can get a whole lot of prostitutes for the money saved on one employee.
Ooh. (Score:4, Funny)
Free publicity. I'd never heard of this software before...
Re:This is the same EA (Score:3, Funny)
Thou art a town crier, sworn to tell the decrees from the lord of the land to the townsmen unaltered. The lazy and vain lord asks thee to begin the news with a pompous praise to him. Dost thou
A) Honestly refrain from praising the lord, knowing the townsmen dislike him as well, or
B) Honor thy agreement and do as thou hast been told?
Aww heck, as if that would matter. =)
Guns don't kill people.... (Score:3, Funny)
EA Games: (Score:3, Funny)
"/Dread"
*Except EA Games.
Re:On the subject... (Score:2, Funny)
Hey buddy, at least MINE is a valid input device.
Re:Just wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Make that 80 percent of those 90 ; the rest gets stuck in the horrible site design.