Thursday, June 16, 2005

Mark Cuban on Macrovision

What am I missing Macrovision? - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _:

"Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN - News) announced today that it has filed suit against Sima Products Corporation and Interburn Enterprises Inc. The lawsuit charges that SimaVideo Enhancers which are principally used to allow consumers to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted DVDs, infringe Macrovision patented copy protection technology and also violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Which got me completely confused on several fronts.

According to MacroVision CEO Bill Krepick, Sima and Interburn infringe Macrovisions intellectual property by
offering products that enable users to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted content by illegally removing our copy
protection system

Now maybe I%u2019m reading this wrong, but the way I understand it, the CEO of MacroVision, a company that sells copy
protection software to DVD publishers, is sending out a press release saying%u2026

"Our software doesn%u2019t work. It sucks. We can't stop a bunch of little companies from writing software that
completely busts our copy protection that we are selling for millions of dollars to publishers."

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