Judge Rules Against DVD Consortium

[HardOCP News]

A Superior Court judge ruled that Kaleidescape's media server does not violate the security technology used to protect DVD disks because the standard licensing contract and specifications for the technology are so poorly worded.

The decision marks a rare, though small victory for a Silicon Valley startup facing the interests of a group of large movie studios and consumer and computer companies. The ruling also could open the door for other systems makers who want to design personal video libraries that store DVD movies on hard drives.

 

[xX_Jack_Carver_Xx]

That's a riot. If the DVD licensing is proved defective as a document, it opens the door to all sorts of actions undermining it.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Groovy, maybe this is another slam dunk for John Q Public in that the big bad corporations aren't allowed to right completely vague license agreements that seem to protect them from anything under the sun.