U.S. Court Orders Seizure of “DVD Ripping� Software Domains, Servers and Funds

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[url="http://torrentfreak.com/images/dvdfablogo.jpg"][img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/dvdfablogo.jpg[/img][/url]AACS, the decryption licensing outfit founded by a group of movie studios and technology partners including Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, has launched a crackdown on DRM-circumvention software.

In an effort to limit the availability of so-called DVD ripping software, [url="http://www.aacsla.com/founders/"]AACS[/url] has sued the company behind the popular DVD ripping software DVDFab.

Under U.S. law it’s [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention"]forbidden[/url] to distribute software with the primary intention of circumventing copyright protection. In its complaint, AACS accuses the “DVDFab Group” of violating the DMCA’s anti-circumvention clause by selling tools that can bypass their DVD encryption.

“The DVDFab Group openly touts these illegal circumvention attributes of the DVDFab Software on the DVDFab Websites, advertising that, among other things, its software products ‘remove all Blu-ray copy protections,’ and ‘can remove … all known AACS copy protections’,” AACS writes in its complaint.

To stop the Chinese-based DVDFab from distributing its software in public, AACS moved for a preliminary injunction. After DVDFab failed to respond in court the request was granted by New York Federal Judge Vernon Broderick. TF has obtained [url="http://www.scribd.com/doc/211712569/TorrentFreak-AACS-Injunction"]a copy[/url] of the order.

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