“The Northern District Court official rejected the idea citing precedents that let companies band together to ensure a legal income and said the DVD Copy Control Association, as well as the Motion Picture Association of America, were allowed to work together to stop what they believed was illegal copying,” Electronista reports. “Real also wasn’t found to have suffered any significant losses from the move.”
Electronista reports, “The judge went so far as to criticize Real itself and attacked the software developer for making an app that could likely be found illegal along with delays in producing the software itself.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Guess who just ordered up a pallet of Krispy Kremes?
I could never figure out how Real Networks actually thought they could win this lawsuit. Dumb bastards.
It’s called getting real!
I must say, I love seeing Google’s “Nexus One” ads on MDN. Talk about money wasted! I wonder if they are actually aware that advertising a non-iPhone phone on a Mac web site is like advertising Honda on a billboard in Detroit… Good luck with your click-throughs on this one, Google…!
Meanwhile, MDN rakes it in either way.
are Real still in business? How?
I was just reinstalling Mac OS 8.6 on an ancient clamshell iBook I inherited (circa 1999, and it still runs rather nicely). One of the broken aliases I cleaned up was a dead link to the Real Player application. Odd to think how ubiquitous that thing once was, compared to today.
I certainly have no love for RealNetworks, but this decision hands yet another victory to the cartel that is the MPAA, and deals yet another blow to our fair-use rights as paying consumers. Unless you work for the MPAA, there is nothing about this decision that should make you happy.
Are you in iowa Gabriel?
@Predrag,
You do realise that there are over a hundred million users “NOT” on or ever going to AT&T;right? There must be at least a couple of them that come to this site. I do.
Android is a great alternative to WinMo, RIM and even iPhone if you can’t have one.
@ ecrabb – Agreed, this is definitely a significant blow to Fair Use rights. It’s very disheartening to see the continued paradox of having a right, yet having a technology barrier allowed to completely block that right.
@ somebody – No, I’m not in Iowa… and, to anticipate your next question, it’s not for sale, sorry!
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@MDN: You still haven’t run an article on how Apple’s other former CEO irritant, Chris Gorog, was let go from Napster by Best Buy.
It’s a shame there isn’t a way that both sides could lose. That would be the best outcome when two bunches greedy parasites fight.
@Gabriel
Just the other night I fired up my PowerBook 540c (Blackbird), circa 1994. It is still running Mac OS 7.5. Quaint. I think it as a 40 MB hard drive. It was interesting to see some of my original web development stuff on there, along with Netscape and other tools.
Sigh. Another judge allows the RIAA/MPAA draconian cartel to hammer yet another nail in the coffin of “Fair Use” and individual consumer rights. Remember, these are the goons who want you to pay every time you listen to a piece of music or watch a video!
Gabriel,
Still running my Cube I bought in September 2000.
My first computer ever.
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