US court rules against DVD player manufacturer

A US court sided with Hollywood film studios and ordered a China-based electronics company to build piracy-thwarting techonology into their DVD players, AFP reported. A US District Court in California issued an injunction against Shenzhen-based Gowell Electronics as part of a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America. The suit, filed in June, accuses Gowell of making DVD players without Content Scramble System anti-copying technology. Gowell has not said whether it would comply with the terms of the injunction.