All Articles Tagged Drm

Grant Clauser | 03/14 07:10 AM, 6 Comments

Walmart wants to be your movie server in the cloud, the digital bin where users store all DVDs for access on all Internet-connected devices. Walmart, in conjunction with Vudu, has launched an in-store program that turns DVDs into digital cloud-stored copies which, presumably, would be accessible over tablets, smartphones, smart TVs and more. Walmart acquired Vudu in Feb. 2010. Walmart, which has support from major movie studios such as Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros., the service will launch on April 16, 2012 in 3,500 stores. The back catalogs… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 03/12 11:46 AM, 0 Comments

Kaleidescape CEO Michael Malcolm and his team was “pretty shocked” by the injunction order just issued against the company in its seven-year-old lawsuit with the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA). Judge William J. Monahan of the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara, published the injunction last week. The DVD CCA, which licenses the Content Scramble System (CSS) copy-protection scheme for DVD players, has enjoined Kaleidescape from selling its flagship DVD movie servers because they do not require a physical disc to be present at playback – a requirement of… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 03/12 09:06 AM, 16 Comments

UPDATE: All parties including dealers are enjoined from selling Kaleidescape DVD servers; only Kaleidescape is enjoined from supporting the servers, and only support related to CSS, according to Kaleidescape. Read updated article: Kaleidescape CEO ‘Shocked’ at Extreme Injunction Against DVD Movie Servers The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has prevailed in a final decision against Kaleidescape, a manufacturer of high-end movie servers. Judge Willliam J. Monahan has affirmed the temporary decision he issued earlier this year in the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County. To that, he added… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 01/30 02:08 PM, 47 Comments

Kaleidescape, a prominent manufacturer of high-end movies servers, has lost a major battle in its eight-year war against the DVD Copy Control Association, the organization that licenses the Content Scramble System (CSS) for DVD players. The DVD CCA sued Kaleidescape in 2004, arguing that its products violate a licensing agreement that expressly prohibits the copying (ripping, archiving) of DVDs. Judge William J. Monahan of the Santa Clara County Superior Court in California issued a tentative judgment favoring the DVD CCA on Jan. 9, 2012. Discovered by CE Pro after an… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 01/27 09:17 AM, 42 Comments

The DVD Content Copy Association has won its lawsuit against Kaleidescape, maker of high-end movie servers. A Santa Clara, Calif., court handed down a temporary judgment on Jan. 9 that Kaleidescape breached its contract with the DVD CCA, which licenses the Content Scramble System (CSS) decryption scheme for DVD players. Kaleidescape lets users copy their DVDs onto a media server, and play back the movies disc-free. The court ruled that the CSS licensing agreement expressly prohibits this functionality – a disc must be present in the player. Period. It doesn’t… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 11/30 09:49 AM, 5 Comments

Do Kaleidescape’s high-end media servers violate a licensing agreement with the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA)? After 7 years, the question is still up in the air but the two parties are back in court as of Nov. 14, 2011, this time to address the actual merits of the case for the first time. “Things have been proceeding slowly, as they’re known to do,” Kaleidescape marketing director Tom Barnett tells CE Pro. This could well be the definitive case for the two parties, which have met in court several… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/20 09:50 AM, 26 Comments

Kaleidescape, maker of high-end movie servers for the home, is now shipping the nifty new M700 Disc Vault for storing and streaming up to 320 Blu-ray and DVD discs. The unit should easily pass muster with the Blu-ray copy protection police, but does not address the concerns of the DVD CCA (Copy Control Association), which licenses decryption software for plain old DVDs. Kaleidescape has battled the DVD CCA since 2005, when the organization sued the manufacturer for breach of contract, claiming its licensing agreement expressly prohibits the ripping (copying, archiving… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/20 06:07 AM, 16 Comments

Kaleidescape is now shipping the new M700 Disc Vault ($5,995), a key component of its whole-house movie system meant to play nice with digital rights management (DRM). The original Modular Disc Vault ($1,500) accommodates just 100 discs and requires an M-Class player for playback – one for every little Vault on the network. The M700, on the other hand, is an integrated carousel with a player built in – eliminating the expense of three carousels and three players for users with 300-plus disc libraries. The M700 automatically loads, categorizes and… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 03/30 04:12 AM, 7 Comments

We knew that music was going to the cloud, but we didn't know that Amazon would be the first major provider to offer such a service. On Tuesday, the online retailer launched the Amazon Cloud Drive Player, providing 5GB of free storage (20GB if you buy an album) for music and other content. The service works with PCs, Macs and Android devices. (CORRECTION: Cloud Drive is simply the storage product, which is not unique; Cloud Player is the streaming mechanism for copy-protected music, which is unique among the serious players.)… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/29 11:02 AM, 4 Comments

Kaleidescape, developer of high-end media servers, will offer two Blu-ray storage solutions that could keep the the DRM police at bay. The new Vault product line will complement the recently released M300 and M500 players for playing Blu-ray discs that are stored on a networked Kaleidescape server. The problem with these DRM-friendly players today is that, in order to play a Blu-ray movie, the physical disc must be present in the tray (of any M500 on the network; the M300 has no disc tray). The Vault is supposed to solve… View this story