321 Studios - throw in the towel

[LTR12101B]

Just as CloneCD was forced to emigrate to Antigua, the relentless legal pressure on 321 finally sees them shutting their doors, despite paying considerably more than lip service to reminding users about the legalities of making a backup, and not making it easy to copy something with CSS.

http://www.321studios.com/

In America, it seems they are more concerned about DVD copy software than guns - and what America does today, Europe does tomorrow - like the insidious spread of DMCA-style legislation.

There seems to be a basic assumption of wrongdoing, assume the worst, and ban it as a precaution - by that token, you might as well assume that anyone with a gun will go mad with it, anyone with a car will commit road rage slaughter ... and if you have a dual tape deck with fast dubbing, the cops will be kicking your door down already.

Why not chip everyone at birth?

 

[scarecrow]

The 321 website is not availble here currently...
Plus that aside their main legal headaches they should have issues with Novastor, which had acquired them for a short period.

 

[VIPER_1069]

make sure you check out their CLOSE OUT SALE

and get your order in for .... YOUR 321 STUDIOS official SLINKY what the !? lol

yes get yer slinky before they sell out


or your BAT AND BALL PADDLE set lol now we know why they are out of business !?

selling cheapo branded naff toys lol

 

[Dnd4evr]

Why not chip everyone at birth?

With DMCA, FCC and Patriot Act we aren't far from it.

What happened to 321 Studios is a real shame. Their software was targeted because it came out and let you make a backup in 1 step. Never mind they asked you if you owned the DVD and inserted a message stating it was a copy.

There are a lot of DVD copy programs out there that everyone uses to do the same thing. The only difference is you have to rip the DVD yourself. I fear its only a matter of time before they start going after DVD re-encoders. After all, how many non-protected DVDs sized > 4.7Gb are there? Only now that dual layer home burners are becoming available could you make your own DVD that large or copy a DVD without compression (at $18 for Verbatum disks its not much of an option yet ).

If you don't like how this is going, you have to get involved and be heard. How do you do that? Make the more powerful loose their jobs by voting them out. The others will get the message.