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Court Overturns Kaleidescape Ruling
 August 14, 2009 — A federal court has handed a defeat to Kaleidescape, whose superb video-server technology has been fighting for its life in the courts for several years.
The appeals court in California reversed a 2007 ruling. That original ruling said Kaleidescape wasn't violating its contract with the DVD Copy Control Association, which controls the anti-copy mechanism in the DVD format. Previously, it was OK for Kaleidescape to unlock CCA's digital rights management scheme in order to copy the contents of DVDs to a server hard drive. Under this week's ruling, suddenly it's not OK, and Kaleidescape no longer has a viable product. Kaleidescape is naturally "disappointed." Next stop: California Supreme Court. This is Hollywood's second victory this week in its ongoing war against consumer fair-use copying. A different court had already ruled against RealNetworks, declaring its RealDVD disc copying application illegal. See TWICE, EE Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
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