Kaleidescape

Appeals Court: DVD-Copying Kaleidescape Device Illegal

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 13, 2009 - 3:35am.

San Jose, Calif. - A federal appeals court has overturned a favorable ruling for Kaleidescape, a maker of high-capacity DVD home video servers, and ordered a lower court to make another determination on whether the devices violate a license for the studios' DVD encryption technology. The 6th District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA), a standards body created by the Hollywood movie studios that own the encryption technology on DVDs, which had argued that the Kaleidescape machine circumvents that encryption to copy DVDs to its server.

Kaleidescape Wins Case Over DVD-Ripping Home Server

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 30, 2007 - 1:16pm.

Mountain View, Calif. - Kaleidescape, the maker of a home entertainment server, announced on Friday that it has won a court victory over the DVD Copy Control Association, in a case that focused on the ability of the device to make copies of DVDs for storage and personal use.