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Article: Leading Consumer Electronics Retailer in the United Kingdom Removes Circumvention Devices in Cooperation with Macrovision.
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- Business Wire
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- February 3, 2004
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2004
Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN), the leading provider of digital rights management and copy protection technologies, today announced that Maplin Electronics Limited has declared that they will fully comply with the European Copyright Directive, which was implemented in the UK on October 31, 2003. The new law brings into force important new measures prohibiting the sale and advertising of circumvention devices designed to illegally circumvent Macrovision copy protection technologies on DVDs and VHS cassettes that protect the copyrights of content owners and ...