Macrovision, the company behind the widely used copy protection SafeDisc has posted smaller profits for its fourth quarter of 2002. The company is still making a decent profit and is hoping for better results the coming quarters.
Excluding charges the company had a profit of $9.3 million, or 19 cents per share, compared with a year-earlier profit before items of $12.1 million, or 23 cents a share. The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call was for earnings per share of 18 cents on that basis. |
Revenue in the fiscal quarter was $30.2 million, compared with $27 million a year earlier
More information can be found here. Macrovision and Sony DACD (Key2Audio/SecuROM) are currently dominating the copy protection market, but have yet to release an unbreakable copy protection. They however keep releasing better and better protections to make copying as difficult as possible.
Source: Yahoo.com
