321 Studios Shuts Its Doors

3 Aug, 2004 at 10:37pm ET Article published in Tech

321 Studios, the company that sold DVD-copying software and faced an avalanche of lawsuits from the entertainment industry, shut down Monday.

The St. Charles, Missouri, company made DVD-X Copy and DVD Copy Plus — programs that allowed users to make backup copies of their commercial DVDs. Hollywood studios filed several lawsuits to force the company to stop selling its products, saying the company was helping pirates. The Missouri company had denied any wrongdoing, claiming DVD purchasers had the right to make copies for personal use.

Once the legislation was written and the appeal was lost, they were doomed anyway. -KF

Source: Wired

Comments

4 Aug 2004 ~ 12:41pm b0wz Guess the movie industry just aint making enough money, what a crock of crap!!! Long live Dvd Shrink, and Dvd Decryptor!! Go Pirates.......superbowl bound......
4 Aug 2004 ~ 2:59pm TheSmJ was their software really that good?
4 Aug 2004 ~ 6:19pm KingFish It was pretty decent stuff and and can be found on Kazaa if you're so inclined.

KF
4 Aug 2004 ~ 6:26pm b0wz

KingFish wrote:

It was pretty decent stuff and and can be found on Kazaa if you're so inclined.

KF

was bullit proof for John Q', cut all the crap out and did the auto compression stuff, an easy one button deal. There are better programs out there, Dvd decryptor lets you pick and choose what you want on the copy, and best of all, its free......................uses the nero burning enguine. b0wz
4 Aug 2004 ~ 8:22pm Thrax DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink are infinitely better than the crock of crap that 321 Studios produced. Not only are DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink superior products, they're free, and of better final quality.
5 Aug 2004 ~ 6:06pm GnomeWizardd but for the regular joe Dvd xcopy xpress was by far the easiest thing to use
5 Aug 2004 ~ 7:39pm Thrax Have you ever used DVD Shrink? You click three buttons and you're done.
5 Aug 2004 ~ 9:25pm GnomeWizardd nope always used dvd xcopy xpress 1 click and boom i got a dvd