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Article: DVDINSIDER: Macrovision Obtains Interim Injunction To Prohibit Sales Of Circumvention Devices By Media Markt In Frankfurt, Germany.(Brief Article)
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- DVD News
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- October 7, 2003
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Macrovision Corporation announced that its German lawyers, Norr Stiefenhofer Lutz, obtained a temporary injunction, without an oral court hearing, in the District Court of Frankfurt, Germany, against the Frankfurt outlet of Media Markt TV-Hifi-Elektro GmbH prohibiting the ongoing sale of the Macro 2000 copy protection circumvention device. Macrovision was granted the injunction under the newly-enacted German Copyright Directive that prohibits copy protection circumvention devices in that country. The Macro 2000 strips off copy protection from protected DVDs and ...