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In Battle With MPAA, Zediva Is Down For The Count

When the Zediva DVD-streaming service popped up earlier this year, its novel legal strategy immediately became a subject of debate among law school professors and digital copyright pundits. Whatever the bounds of copyright are in the digital age, Zediva now appears to be outside them. A Los Angeles federal judge has hit the service with an injunction that will force Zediva to stop streaming very soon.

It’s now clear that strategy, described by some as a “loophole,” isn’t going to work so easily. Zediva was hit with a lawsuit by the Motion Picture Association of America back in April, and although the small company lawyered up and vigorously defended itself, it’s now lost a key battle.

While the case isn’t over, this is a huge setback for Zediva. It can appeal this case to the 9th Circuit, but it will likely have to shut down while the case moves forward; in addition, this injunction order shows that the judge overseeing the case sees the studios’ case favorably.

The timing of yesterday’s ruling [ PDF ] by U.S. District Judge John Walter came as something of a surprise, since a motion hearing on the issue was scheduled for Aug. 8.

In a blog post , MPAA Vice President Dan Robbins said: “Judge Walter’s decision is a great victory for the more than two million American men and women whose livelihoods depend on a thriving film and television industry.  Judge Walter rejected Zediva’s argument that it was ‘renting’ movies to its users, and ruled, by contrast, that Zediva violated the studios’ exclusive rights to publicly perform their movies, such as through authorized video-on-demand services.”

Walter also found that an injunction was appropriate because Zediva was putting the studios’ business in danger. “[B]ecause Defendants are exploiting Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works without paying the normal licensing fees, they deprive Plaintiffs of revenue, and even jeopardize the continued existence of Plaintiffs’ licensees’ businesses,” wrote Walter. He added that Zediva also “threatens the development of a successful and lawful video on demand market and, in particular, the growing internet-based video on demand market.

A Zediva spokesman said via e-mail: “Today’s ruling represents a setback for the hundreds of thousands of consumers looking for an alternative to Hollywood-controlled online movie services.  Zediva intends to appeal, and will keep fighting for consumers’ right to watch a DVD they’ve rented, whether that rental is at the corner store or by mail or over the Internet.

How to Copy Copyrighted DVD Movies | DVD Cloning Software Blog

How to Copy Copyrighted DVD Movies

Want to know how to copy copyrighted dvd movies with your computer? Actually it is very easy… as long as you have the right software.

To start with, a copyrighted dvd, css encrypted dvd, or copy protected dvd is an encryption system that most commercial DVDs use, and all DVD players need to understand. It’s alleged purpose is to stop people from illegally copying and selling dvds… however it also enforces region coding, non-skippable FBI warnings or commercials and many other artificial restrictions.

Most of the latest dvd movie releases attempt to prevent copying a dvd by creating bad sectors or bad DVD structure which will cause the burning process to fail… unless you are able to break the encryption. 2. The Easiest Way

So let’s talk about the free way to copy a copyrighted dvd first.

The free way is also the more harder way to copy a copyrighted dvd is to get a free decryption utility such as dvd decrypter that allows you to decrypt and copy DVDs to your PC’s hard disk. From there you can watch them with programs such as WinDVD and PowerDVD, or you can write them back to DVD or CD with another software like dvd shrink .

This method to copy a copyrighted dvd requires many steps and is not nearly as easy or fast as the second method which involves the use of a dvd copy software , but nevertheless, it is free and therefore worthy of considering.

Now let’s talk about 2nd way, also the easiest way to copy a copyrighted dvd.

Copying a copyrighted dvd with a quality dvd copy software is by far the easiest way to make a perfect 1:1 backup every time with only a single click of the mouse. It really is that easy.

Other features of a good quality dvd copy software is the ability to choose if you would like to copy the movie only or you can copy everything on the original disc, including menus, chapters, languages, and all. All with the single click of your mouse.

In addition, you can make multiple copies from movies on your hard drive, copy full multi-channel audio, copy TV episodic dvds like “The Simpsons”, “CSI” and “The Sopranos”, copy movies to disc or save it to your hard drive and watch it on your computer or laptop, make copies of your backup copies and much more.

All of our top rated dvd copy programs will copy copyrighted dvds with perfect quality every single time… and many of them will copy them with the single click of your mouse. However, they do differ in features, quality of copied dvd, ease of use, customer support, frequency of updates and so on.

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