[IP] Video game companies sue 321 Studios under DMCA for backup program
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From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 15, 2004 8:05:44 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Video game companies sue 321 Studios under DMCA for backup
program
[For IP, if worthy ... Here we go again ...
This is in the news, but I've gone to the trouble of getting the
original sources for the press release and the DMCA lawsuit.]
Lawsuit: http://www.theesa.com/321StudiosComplaint.pdf
Press Release: http://www.theesa.com/6_15_2004.html
Washington, DC -- June 15, 2004 -- Opening a major new front in the
entertainment software industry's battle against piracy, leading
video game companies today filed a lawsuit to block the trafficking
and sale of software that cracks the copy protection systems used by
game makers to protect their titles from illegal copying, the
Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today.
Three ESA members, Atari, Inc., Electronic Arts Inc., and Vivendi
Universal Games, Inc., filed the lawsuit against 321 Studios in
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, contending
that 321 Studios' "Games X Copy" software is illegal because it
violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing
the technological protection measures used by entertainment software
publishers to prevent game piracy.
""Masquerading as a consumer friendly tool, 321 Studios' software
is, in truth, really nothing more than a device to facilitate the
illegal copying of games," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the
Entertainment Software Association, the trade association that
represents U.S. computer and video game publishers. "Federal law
makes it clear that it is illegal to manufacture, distribute, or
sell devices or programs that circumvent technological protection
measures built into video games. That's exactly what 321 Studios'
Games X Copy does, and we fully expect the court to grant our
request to ban this product."
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