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).

Comments

douche-nozzles injunction

[Anonymous Coward]

Can I go to court and get an injunction against AACS being douche-nozzles?

Re:douche-nozzles injunction

[houstonbofh]

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.

put comey and these idiots in a room

[TheGratefulNet]

and let them fight it out.

comey wants to outlaw encryption.

that stupid trade group wants ONLY encryption.

#include <popcorn.h>

lol

Re:put comey and these idiots in a room

[IMightB]

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

Re:put comey and these idiots in a room

[The Grim Reefer]

That's a great idea. Only a terrorist would want to use encryption. Perhaps the the entire R/MIAA should be sent to Gitmo.

And I think we can make it revenue neutral, or even make a profit. We'll sell tickets to anyone who would like to waterboard them. After all, they must be hiding something on those disks. Why else would they encrypt them? Or people can pay to choose which song will be blasted in their cell. Kind of like a torture jukebox.

Re:put comey and these idiots in a room

[93 Escort Wagon]

If the use of encryption is banned in the United States (for private individuals), terrorists will probably start mailing encrypted Blu-Ray disks, containing operational instructions, to each other. Suggested titles might include "Mullahs Gone Wild" and "Three Men and a Fatwah".

dvd is useful - please fight

[late_game_reviewer]

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

Re:dvd is useful - please fight

[Anonymous Coward]

You obviously don't have an authistic kid bud...

Re:dvd is useful - please fight

[110010001000]

I'm not autistic and I don't want to watch all those ads either. Who does?

Re:dvd is useful - please fight

[CCarrot]

As another parent of an autistic kid, my reply to you, AC, is FUCK YOU!

(and yes, I'm fully aware I'm posting as an AC as well, thanks for stating the bloody obvious!)

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.

Ironically enough, it's often these self same people who have a morally-outraged meltdown whenever they see a mom-n-pop store entrance that has a bit of a step up, or an elevator without braille on the floor selector buttons. Apparently it's absolutely vital for everyone to accommodate certain types of ability impairment, but accommodating other types is somehow 'babying' them.

Re:dvd is useful - please fight

[myowntrueself]

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?

Good luck with that

[Sycraft-fu]

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

US courts over-reach?

[ukoda]

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.

Re:available everywhere but the publishers?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Only hurting legit sales

[Deathlok's Bear]

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.

Good Advertising

[TechyImmigrant]

I'm considering going and buying a copy now.

Re:Good Advertising

[phantomfive]

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.

Re:DEC logo

[Qzukk]

Somewhere along the long line of people who have owned and operated slashdot, the site administration has lost all of the people who had any idea what DEC was. Since it has the word "digital" in it, the current editors assume the icon can go with anything digital, like Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Re:DEC logo

[Jonah Hex]

The probably think Wang Laboratories is/was a penis enhancement company. :P

The US has no juristiction.

[sg_oneill]

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.