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'''321 Studios''' was a privately held company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with a sales office in Berkeley, California. The company was a provider of DVD authoring software.
In February 2004, after a three-year legal battle with several of the major Hollywood studios, the DVDXCopy products which the company sold were deemed by a California court to be in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the case 321 Studios v. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Inc. and were banned from selling DVD Content Scrambling System circumvention software.<ref name="btlj-321_v_mgm" /> The company was shut down in August 2004.
==References== <references>
<ref name="btlj-321_v_mgm">{{cite journal|title=321 Studios v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc.|journal=Berkeley Technology Law Journal|date=January 2005|volume=20|issue=1|page=723|doi=10.15779/Z38VH6T|url=http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1546&context=btlj|access-date=16 November 2016|author1=Berkeley Technology Law Journal }}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007213326/http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,869864,00.asp PC Mag article on DVD X Copy] * [http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2004/08/02/321_studios_shuts_down AfterDawn article about 321 Studios' shutdown]
Category:DVD companies of the United States Category:DVD rippers Category:Privately held companies based in Missouri Category:Companies disestablished in 2004