Mark Cuban on the DMCA

This post by Mark Cuban talks about the Macrovision suit against Sima and Interburn.

He states:

According to MacroVision CEO Bill Krepick, “Sima and Interburn infringe Macrovision’s intellectual property by offering products that enable users to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted content by illegally removing our copy protection system.”

Now maybe I’m reading this wrong, but the way I understand it, the CEO of MacroVision, a company that sells copy protection software to DVD publishers, is sending out a press release saying…

”Our software doesn’t work. It sucks. We can’t stop a bunch of little companies from writing software that completely busts our copy protection that we are selling for millions of dollars to publishers.”

An interesting take on the protection provided in the DMCA.

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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, July 7, 2005 at 5:20 pm
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