Media Rights Technologies, a California company that works with technology to prevent the ripping of digital music is threatening legal action on Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe Systems for actively avoiding use of their technology. It argues that the companies have manufactured billions of copies of Windows Vista, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player and Apple’s iTunes and iPod “without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American intellectual property owners.”
“We’ve given these four companies 10 days to talk to us and work out a solution, or we will go into federal court and file action and seek an injunction to remove the infringing products from the marketplace,” CEO Hank Risan said in a phone interview Friday.
I don’t know the legal aspects behind this case, but I don’t see how not using someone’s product is illegal. I think if any of the companies being sued has decided to develop their own technology or use some other companies technology then that’s alright. I think this is just another frivolous lawsuit and won’t get very far against the giant companies being sued.
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erikcurtis // May 18, 2007 at 9:08 pm
The DCMA is inplace to protect the owners, in this case the software publisher listed. So should the owners decide not to use [the] “technological protection measures” offered by MRT, that is their right.