Hollywood Escalates "DVD Ripping" Case To International Incident (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Sunday February 14, 2016 @02:45PM from the escalating-quickly dept.

A group of Hollywood studios and technology partners have asked the U.S. Government to assist in solving a long-running court battle against the Antique based software company SlySoft. Despite an earlier conviction SlySoft continues to offer its DVD and BluRay ripping tools. To progress the matter, rightsholders have asked the U.S. to place Antigua on the Priority Watch List. "Circumvention through programs such as SlySoft's AnyDVD HD is a source for widespread, large-scale and commercial copyright infringement by users located in the United States, as well as Antigua & Barbuda, and many other countries," AACS writes (pdf).

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Good, finally some common sense in copyright law! by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-14 15:25 · Score: 0, Troll

Just because a copyright is owned by a person in another country doesn't make it right to steal their work. Just because I live in Germany doesn't mean I should be allowed to steal and redistribute works that are copyrighted by people in the US or Canada. That's not right. I am glad to see copyright law violations across international borders being considered international incidents.