3 posts and columns on honor system

Rent. Rip. Restraining Order.

in News on October 6, 2008 at 11:38 am PT

The legal broadside Hollywood lobbed at RealNetworks last week has upset the company’s carefully prepared plans to offer a mainstream means of legally copying DVDs. A judge has issued a temporary ban on sales of Real’s RealDVD software in the wake of a lawsuit brought against it by the Motion Picture Association of America.

One–Make That Two–Words: Plastic Logic

in News on September 8, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Rent. Rip. Return.

in News on September 8, 2008 at 7:19 am PT

RealNetworks Inc. CEO Rob Glaser calls RealDVD, the company’s new “legal” DVD ripper, “a compelling and very responsible product that gives consumers a way to do something they have always wanted to do.” But really what it’s giving them is a more cumbersome way of doing something that they’ve already been doing for years now with DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD, Handbrake, MacTheRipper, RipIt and the like.