The RIAA and MPAA - trade bodies for the USA's major music labels and film studios respectively - have proposed the creation and use of anti-copyright-infringement software, based on the antivirus software installed on most PCs.

In a submission...

A federal judge has upheld a previous ruling and stopped RealNetworks from selling its RealDVD DVD-ripping software.

The Motion Picture Association of America had claimed that RealDVD violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because...