RealNetworks agreed to kill DVD-copying software that raised the hackles of movie studios in Hollywood. The company will also pay $4.5 million to cover the studios’ legal fees and costs for the copyright fight that ensued in the Northern District of California. The concessions came in a March 1 settlement agreement and a consent judgment, approved by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel on Wednesday.
RealNetworks threw in the towel after Patel repeatedly sided with the major movie studios and the DVD Copy Control Association. The judge granted a preliminary injunction against RealNetworks’ software, RealDVD, in August. Patel concluded that it violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by circumventing copy control locks on DVDs. She gave little credence to Real’s defense that DVD owners have a fair use right to copy their own movies.
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