Legal issues and rights don't take the Internet as their sole wars ground as it was demonstrated by an article published on Slyck. Indeed the DVD domain is also the field for legal battles.
Thus on September 30th, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed a lawsuit against RealNetworks for designing an illegal software called RealDVD even though it kept the Content Scrambling System (CSS) on the created copies.
So the undertaken legal actions came as a surprise since RealNetworks doesn't seem to be doing anything wrong. But movie studios don't see things with the same eye and go as far as calling this software StealDVD. The good news is that, far from giving up, RealNetworks retaliated with its own lawsuit against Hollywood studios.
But this leads us to one question: are all these battles really worth it in a time when material copies don't seem to matter as much, in particular with the development of legal downloads and streaming? Apparently those two actors really seem to think so.
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