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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).
Can I go to court and get an injunction against AACS being douche-nozzles?
and let them fight it out.
comey wants to outlaw encryption.
that stupid trade group wants ONLY encryption.
#include <popcorn.h>
lol
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
not knowing how good of a program it is but i would bet that the "Usual Suspects" have copies more or less at all times within hours of a new version coming out.
This is like Jurassic Park and thinking those dinos would not breed.
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
Shouldn't the FBI and NSA be arrested for trying to circumvent the encryption on iPhones?
Sit back and think of Russia (servers)
What does the DEC logo have to do with anything?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Looks like I can trip, fall, and run into a huge pile of options besides DVDFab
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They could also liberate the whole thing and let the cat completely out of the bag. Scorch the earth behind them as they retreat.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
DVDFab is made by a Chinese company and you know just how much of a fuck China gives about this.
No you don't. You just want strangers on the Internet to think you do.
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.
The scene will always have access to dvd & bluray ripping software; it's their raison d'etre. Whether they write their own or use a third party one is immaterial, they won't stop until disks are entirely obsolete.
Customers, on the other hand, want to be able to rip their disk so they can watch it on a mobile device, stream it over their network or simply have a large movie collection without having to find somewhere to store hundreds of fragile plastic drinks coasters (whose dye starts breaking down after several years potentially rendering them useless).
Once you start making ripping a disk harder than finding an 'illegal' download of the movie then people will simply drop buying the (now useless) disk in favor of a download which can be format shifted, streamed and stored far more easily.
DVDFab should add an option to decrypt iPhones, or images of iPhones. It doesn't really have to work, just a checkbox or menu entry where the user could select an iPhone or iPhone image.
I think law enforcement in the USA would be lined up with wheelbarrows of cash to get the software. Wheelbarrows of Bitcoin may be safer if you are going to take the money and run.
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.
I'm considering going and buying a copy now.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
No you don't. You just want strangers on the Internet to think you do.
I agree with your assessment. I'm a firm believer in the 2nd amendment, but I'm pretty horrified when someone suggests we need it due to something as trivial as copyright law. Anybody advocating for an armed revolution should think long and hard about the last time we did that, and at modern examples. The outcome would be catastrophic (even if (or maybe especially if) "the people" "won"), and one need look no further than somewhere like Syria to see the template for their new life.
That's not to say I advocate the relative comfort of slavery over a just war of independence, but there is a reason "the cartridge box" is listed last of the four boxes of liberty. All other options MUST be exhausted first.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
If an overseas company sells DVD decryption software downloaded from an overseas server, how can the AACS force them to comply with a court order issued in the US? Or is that one of the provisions of the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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.
Why do they get to ban one DVD backup tool and leave the rest alone?
My opinion (note that I'm NOT a lawyer) is that they are testing the water.
See if they can manage this case and set a precedent.
And then use this case as reference form future lawsuits with other DVD backup software developers.
(A little like back then with Napster)
Though, in practice, I think this is going to fail completely. There are way too many DVD backup tools out-there, some developed outside of the jurisdiction of the AACS.
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