Consumers want DVD convenience and freedom

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  April 6th at 12:26 PM  | 

I have written about the legal battle going on over RealDVD before (see here and here).  For those of you who don’t follow the issue RealNetworks developed software that would allow consumers to legitimately save a copy of DVDs they own to their computer’s hard drive for back up in case of loss or to watch without needing to carry around the hard copy (for | Read More »

The Movie industry’s shortsighted fight

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  March 10th at 09:45 PM  | 

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 relatively small but successful company that develops and markets Internet communications technology – in | Read More »