NEW YORK (Reuters) – Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox sued Tritton Technologies on Wednesday, accusing the company of distributing software aimed at cracking technology used to prevent unlawful copying of DVDs.
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks a court order stopping Irvine, California-based Tritton from distributing the software called “DVD CopyWare.” It also seeks unspecified damages.
Three Web site operators that offer to sell various DVD-copying software are also named as defendants in the suit.
A spokesman for Tritton did not have any immediate comment.
Paramount, a unit of Viacom, and Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of Fox Entertainment Group, said that all the defendants conduct business in New York.
The suit charges that the defendants violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that bars creating or distributing technology that can be used to circumvent copyright protections on software, movies and music.
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