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DVDFab Has Ignored Court's Shut Down Order, AACS Says (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the ignoring-court-orders-like-a-boss dept.

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).

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  1. Re:put comey and these idiots in a room by IMightB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No he only wants to to ban it for the peasants. (ie us)

  2. dvd is useful - please fight by late_game_reviewer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have an authistic kid when mental problems. He doesn't give a shit about ads, their stupid dvd intro for 10 minutes. he just wants to play his dvd from disney. Just press play and BAM, his cartoon plays, nothing else, no ads, no intro nothing just the movie. So yeah, I copy all my dvd content, remove that fucking shitty drm my SON doesn't need and make a dvd or copy it to a usb and put it on his tablet so he doesn't freak out with ads, scream at me and probably has a wish to insert his tablet in my asshole by any means

    1. Re:dvd is useful - please fight by myowntrueself · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Unfortunately, there persists this stubborn subset of morons in society that continue to believe that mental diseases are imaginary, so people with autism or clinical depression must be "faking it", that they just have to "toughen up" or some shit like that.

      Public perception of mental illness is just so very fucked up.

      Eg People might recall that there was a time when homosexuality was regarded as a mental illness. Nowadays we are 'enlightened' and homosexuality isn't generally regarded as a mental illness. No, these days people who "don't like homosexuality" are regarded as having a mental illness; there is a widespread belief that 'homophobia' is a real thing and that 'homophobes' really are phobic. Hey, if that WERE the case then these 'homophobes' should be given understanding and compassion, right? Because they are ill. But no, the LBGT community demand they be treated like criminals... Shoe is on the other foot, kind of thing.

      The world of the mental is such a huge fucking mystery to people, anything concerning the mental world just gets shrouded in so much mythology and misunderstanding and sheer lies, its a wonder we as a society can actually do anything positive at all with it.

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    2. Re:dvd is useful - please fight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Bingo! When I was a kid there was no such thing as autism because parents didn't put up with tantrums or misbehaving. Sorry if that offends you, but the reason there are so many assholes now is because parents these days don't give a fuck about raising a well balanced individual.

    3. Re:dvd is useful - please fight by myowntrueself · · Score: 3, Interesting

      there is a widespread belief that 'homophobia' is a real thing and that 'homophobes' really are phobic. Hey, if that WERE the case then these 'homophobes' should be given understanding and compassion, right? Because they are ill.

      No, you're selectively (and intentionally) imposing your own over-literal interpretation of the word "homophobia"- as if it was what everyone meant by the word- because it suits the flow of your argument.

      I appreciate that the persecuted-turned-hypocritical-persecutors narrative suits your rationalisation of a sense of victimhood (stemming from the fact it's not as socially acceptable to be a bigot in this respect as it used to be).

      However, when you need to selectively interpret the general meaning of words and twist the facts to suit that argument, it's rather obvious nonsense.

      You aren't getting my point. I'm simply illustrating how fucked up peoples perceptions of mental states are. To use the suffix 'phobia' in 'homophobia' shows a complete lack of understanding about the mental condition 'phobia'.

      Its a bit like gamers etc who use the term 'rape' not getting that rape isn't something to be taken lightly. They just don't get it.

      Same with people who refer to 'homophobes'. Do they even know what phobia is? Do they think a phobia is simple fear? Or are they just using the term 'phobia' as a perjorative? Either is wrong. You shouldn't use terms like phobia or rape or cancer in the pejorative, its offensive and inappropriate.

      If homophobia is a real phobia it should be treated as an illness. If homophobia is not a real phobia then this term should not be used at all. But people don't understand what phobia is AT ALL; they don't understand mental states or illnesses AT ALL.

      Get it now?

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  3. Hmmm by MitchDev · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Shouldn't the FBI and NSA be arrested for trying to circumvent the encryption on iPhones?

  4. Good luck with that by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    DVDFab is made by a Chinese company and you know just how much of a fuck China gives about this.

  5. US courts over-reach? by ukoda · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Slashdot summary and the article both fail to mention what country DVDFab is in, but the linked domain implies they are in China. So what was the point of the American court telling them what to do? If the AACS want to shut them down they should be applying Chinese laws in a Chinese court, anything else is just theatrics.

  6. Only hurting legit sales by Deathlok's+Bear · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone who wants to crack dvd/bluray encryption for piracy is going to do it with or without commercial programs like dvdfab.

    The only reason I still buy movies on disc is so I can rip them to my media server and *store* the physical media.
    No needing to go dig up discs, worry about scratches, etc. If I want to take a movie with me, I just transcode it to my phone.

    Not only is it more convenient, but it gets around a lot of licensing issues with streaming media where companies let the license lapse and it becomes unavailable online.

    As a consumer, I want to consume my media when and how I want. Nuts to anyone who wants to restrict my rights to watch something I've already paid for.

    So, as a legal user of dvdfab, I hope they keep doing what they're doing.

  7. Good Advertising by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm considering going and buying a copy now.

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