Tag archive: Kaleidescape

A day after a court upheld a preliminary injunction barring sales of RealNetworks' RealDVD DVD-copying software, a federal appeals court in Los Angeles has reversed (PDF) an earlier trail court victory by Kaleidescape that had found the company's high-end media servers systems did not violate the CSS license agreement in copying DVDs to hard drive-based storage. The Kaleidescape case has been wending through the courts sine… Read More

Upscale home media server maker Kaleidescape has won a narrow court victory over the DVD Copy Control Association, which had sued the company over its home theater systems' capability to make a copy of CSS-protected DVD content for personal use on the system. The DVD Copy Control Association had sued Kaleidescape, alleging the systems' capability to copy DVD protected with the Content Scramble System (CSS) violated the… Read More

“The suit alleges that Kaleidescape's products allow people to illegally make copies of movies using the Kaleidescape server. Kaleidescape has historically been incredibly careful - if not paranoid - about such lawsuits and has gone to lengths to ensure that their products live up to the agreements that the company has with Hollywood movie studios. Their servers, which start in price from $27,000 and range to over $100,000,… Read More