Filed under: Audio/Video Back in September, we said it was only a matter of time before the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) went after RealDVD, the software that lets you copy entire DVDs onto your computer for personal use. Studios are currently involved in a heated lawsuit with RealNe...

Leave aside your feelings about 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr (pro or con) because I think we can agree he is right on this issue: There is now unfolding in a federal court in San Francisco a lawsuit in which several major Hollywood movie studios are suing RealNetworks - a relativ...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has accused RealNetworks of destroying evidence relevant to a lawsuit over the company's DVD-copying software. The movie studios represented by the MPAA have asked for a court order requiring RealNetworks to preserve relevant documents from now on, bu...

In this episode I talk about the new LG Netflix/Blu-ray player, LED Lighting, Digital Movies, Kevin Mitnick, lots of Hard-drives, RealDVD against Hollywood, Iron Man behind the scenes, and lots of other stuff. Full Show Notes Linked Here...

Well that didn’t take long at all. Within an hour of making its new RealDVD software available for sail, RealNetworks filed suit against all of the major movie studios and the DVD Copy Control Association. According to Real’s press release, the suit “asks the court to rule that Rea...