The lawsuit, filed in New York by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and Paramount Pictures Corp., marks the first time a movie company has sued a retailer of the forbidden software by 321 Studios Inc.
Other retailers voluntarily halted sales of the software after federal judges in New York and California – at Hollywood’s behest – ordered 321 of suburban St. Louis to stop making and marketing it.
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Hollywood studios long have insisted that DVD-copying products violate the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bars circumvention of anti-piracy measures used to protect DVDs and other technology.
