Avast Ye Matey! Shiver Me Timbers...

[leebo]

Aye. Anyone out there be knowin a pirate?
Buried treasure awaits ye. But beware, the sea's full 'O untold danger, the likes of what never be known to most!

Some say the ghost of Jack Valenti will never rest... until he can DIRECTLY access your bank account!!!


DVD-Copying Software Maker Offers Reward

February 19, 2003 10:54 AM EST


ST. LOUIS - A maker of DVD-copying software is offering $10,000 bounties for tips about people who are using the product to pirate movies - but the company says the move is not directly related to its legal fight with Hollywood.

In the first week after offering the rewards Feb. 11, 321 Studios did not field any tips of suspected piracy - and does not expect that to change, said Robert Moore, 321's founder and president.

"It's primarily our response to the Motion Picture Association of America's continued claims that this software is a piracy tool, that I'm a thief and that every one of my customers is a co-conspirator," Moore said. "Those are their words, not mine, and I'm frankly tired of hearing it."

Moore said his "Piracy Prevention Program" does not suggest the company is caving in to Hollywood's challenges of 321's DVD Copy Plus or its follow-up DVD X Copy. About 200,000 copies have been sold online or in stores for $100 apiece since its November rollout.

"While we believe consumers should have the right to make perfect, personal-use backup copies of DVDs they already own, we are against the illegal use of our products," added Mike Wozniak, 321's chief information officer.

The company, based in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield, wants to work with Hollywood and the government to prevent piracy, Wozniak said, calling that "one of our highest priorities."

Messages seeking comment from the Motion Picture Association were not immediately returned.

Moore has said DVD X Copy injects electronic barriers into the copies it makes to keep them from being duplicated further. That software also inserts digital watermarks and identifying information that Moore said can trace the source of any file transmitted over the Internet.

[pacmania_2001]

Too late. Already reported here:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=143386

Gotta give you points though for the pirate accent.