Macrovision Introduces RipGuard DVD to Dramatically Reduce Digital DVD Piracy

Macrovision Corporation, the world's leading supplier of content and software value management solutions, today announced the worldwide availability of RipGuard DVD™ a digital rip-control solution for DVD Video. RipGuard DVD plugs the "digital hole" created by PC-based DeCSS ripper software, which allows millions of average consumers to make unauthorized perfect digital copies of copyrighted DVDs in mere minutes. These copies can be burned to inexpensive recordable DVDs or uploaded onto the peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. P2P downloads and the "rent, rip, return" of DVDs are an ongoing source of billions of dollars in annual revenue losses for the movie studios.