Copy Protection Court Case

 Ars Technica has an interesting article about a rather interesting ongoing legal case: the copy protection company Macrovision sued the video manufacturer Sima over products that could be used to copy analog videotapes that were protected with the Macrovision copy protection system, such as the CT-200. The case was brought under the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), with Macrovision claiming that the Sima products "are principally used to allow consumers to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted DVDs". They won the first round of the legal fight, but Sima are appealing. They are being supported by an unlikely alliance of the Consumer Electronics Association, the American Library Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who describe it as "an example of a DRM vendor trying to use the DMCA to turn its decades-old, analog-world DRM technology into a digital-age federal technology mandate". The case is still ongoing: Sima have appealed the ruling to the federal courts, and the products are still on sale while the appeal is pending.
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