Appeals Court Rules Against Kaleidescape's DVD Copying

By Geoff Duncan
August 13, 2009

A day after a court upheld a preliminary injunction on sales of RealDVD, an appeals court has overturned a decision that let Kaleidescape's media servers copy DVDs to hard drive storage.

A day after a court Kaleidescape that had found the company's high-end media servers systems did not violate the CSS license agreement in copying DVDs to hard drive-based storage.

The Kaleidescape case has been wending through the courts sine 2004, and a 2007 trial court ruling had found that Kaleidescape had not violated contracts with the DVD Copy Control Association by creating high-end media servers that could copy a DVD's contents to a hard drive-based media server. Yesterday, an appeals court overturned that ruling, finding that Kaleidescape had breached the CSS contract and acted in bad faith in creating its DVD-copying feature.

The appeals court cannot issue an injunction on the sales of Kaleidescape's media servers; that ...

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