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DVDFab Has Ignored Court's Shut Down Order, AACS Says (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader cites a report on TorrentFreak: DVDFab has failed to cease its operations in the U.S. and should be sanctioned, AACS says. The decryption licensing outfit founded by Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft, Intel and others, informs a New York federal court that DVDFab's parent company has blatantly ignored a permanent injunction that was issued last year. In 2014 decryption licensing outfit AACS LA initiated a renewed crackdown on DRM-circumvention software. The company, founded by a group of movie studios and technology partners, sued the makers of popular DVD and Blu-Ray ripping software DVDFab in a New York federal court. After a brief legal battle the court ruled in favor of AACS, issuing an injunction based on the argument that the "DVDFab Group" violates the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause, since their software can bypass DVD and Bluray encryption. Among other things, the injunction barred DVDFab from distributing its software in public and allowed AACS to seize a wide range of domain names. The crippling injunction seemed to work, but not for long. In a new court filing, AACS notes that the software vendor briefly blocked U.S. purchases but went back to business as usual soon after (PDF).
It is a very useful program for making backups of your DVD & BluRay collection. That is their main selling point. Have used it for years. Saves the wear and tear on my disc collection and allows me to store them in a safe place. Then I can watch them with PowerDVD straight from my hard drive.
And they do publish updates very soon after a new protection scheme comes out.
Can I go to court and get an injunction against AACS being douche-nozzles?
Already done... You see the AACS are ignoring the WTO order allowing them to pirate software directly to recoup online casino losses from the illegal US actions.
A few weeks back I attempted to purchase it because the consensus among friends is it's the best to convert my home library to my media server.
For ripping and converting video, I've found that MKV + Handbrake works really nicely, and it's free.
http://www.makemkv.com/
I wish more people knew about it instead of those stupid clones that come up better in search results and ask for money.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Looking at DVDFabs about pages, it leads to a chinese company called Fengtao Software Inc from the Haidian district in Beijing.
They have no obligation at all to comply with this, because they are not an american company at all.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.