Stop that!!

A California judge has ordered a multimedia chipmaker to stop selling versions of its products that were used in DVD-copying devices.

The Motion Picture Association of America said Monday that it had found chips from ESS Technology, based in Fremont, Calif., inside a device that allowed DVDs to be copied. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis issued an order Friday that blocked the manufacturer from selling its chips to any other device maker producing similar products.

Someone once said that if 2 million people with ground-breaking tools lined up along the eastern border of California, they could chip the state away from the rest of the country and thereby solve 38 percent of all of our problems. Truth is, it would take explosives and heavy machinery as well –and it would only be about 23 percent of the problems.