By Tony Hallett, 17 January 2000 12:29
NEWS Major Hollywood film studios have taken legal steps to prevent the pirating of content held on DVDs. They have filed injunctions in the Southern District Court of New York and District of Connecticut to stop three defendants publishing "an unauthorised de-encryption formula", used to prevent the copying of material on DVDs, on their Web sites. The plaintiffs in the action are Columbia Pictures International, Disney Enterprises, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner Entertainment, Tristar Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, and Universal Studios. Jack Valenti, president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in a statement referred to the hacking of the CSS system used on DVDs as "a case of theft", and added the MPAA is trying "to stop Internet hackers from distributing the software designed circumvent the encryption technology that prevents unlawful copying of DVDs".
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