A US Court has ordered RealNetworks to temporarily suspend selling its new DVD ripping and archiving product, RealDVD following an application by Hollywood studio and the Motion Picture Association. 
Visitors to the RealNetworks web site got a message stating that the product is unavailable. "Due to recent legal action taken by the Hollywood movie studios against us, RealDVD is temporarily unavailable," reads the site. "Rest assured, we will continue to work diligently to provide you with software that allows you to make a legal copy of your DVDs for your own use."
Last week we reported that Real Network's had mounted pre emptive legal action in an attempt to obtain a declaratory judgment that its RealDVD software "fully complied with the DVD Copy Control Association's license agreement".
 This is not a win for the MPA but a stalling process, while the legal process takes place say observers to the battle between RealNetworks and Hollywood.

G Daily reports that according to the MPAA, the "RealDVD software enables users to engage in an illegal practice known as "rent, rip and return," whereby a person rents a DVD from a legitimate business like Blockbuster or Netflix, uses the RealDVD software to make multiple permanent illegal copies of the movie, and returns the DVD, only to rent another popular title and make permanent copies of it, repeating the cycle of theft over and over again without ever making a purchase." The movie industry claims that RealDVD creates exact copies of DVD while bypassing their encryption.

Real Networks, on the other side, promises that the software can makes an "exact" copy of a DVD to a hard drive, but unlike current DVD ripping programs, the developer claims that RealDVD does not remove or alter the CSS encryption and even adds additional DRM to the file saved on the hard drive.