Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox sued Tritton Technologies on Wednesday, accusing the company of distributing software aimed at cracking technology used to prevent unlawful copying of DVDs.
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks a court order stopping Irvine, California-based Tritton from distributing the software called "DVD CopyWare." It also seeks unspecified damages.
Three Web site operators that offer to sell various DVD-copying software are also named as defendants in the suit. . . .
[T]he suit charges that the defendants violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that bars creating or distributing technology that can be used to circumvent copyright protections on software, movies and music.
The plaintiffs allege that Tritton's CopyWare software is designed to circumvent a copy-protection system called the "Content Scramble System."
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has previously ruled that the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act does not infringe on free speech protections of the U.S. Constitution. Rulings by the Second Circuit are binding on cases filed in Manhattan federal court.
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