The company, founded by a group of movie studios and technology partners, sued the makers of. It saddens me to say it but, I can see DVDFab withdrawing from this arena sooner rather than later. In 2014 decryption licensing outfit AACS LA initiated a renewed crackdown on DRM-circumvention software. Either way they could very quickly go bankrupt. Effectively, they will soon have to cease to trade or fight this Order. A VPN is not effective if it is forbidden for sites to publish an ever-changing address. There is no point continuing a business that has little or no means of handling money. In less than a week, DVDFab will have the majority of payment services closed to them. Then there's the censorship issue, as it's not about a lawsuit for copyright infringement, but a means to erase a company (name, product, an all) from the Internet simply because a larger monopoly are intent on keeping an outdated business model. Clause 6 is effectively a 'gagging order' preventing social media, search providers (possible even sites like VideoHelp in the future) providing links, or even description, of what DVDFab is/does. That court Order is very open to interpretation. Slap a $20000 fine in there and a 10 year jail sentence, and even the act of home backup becomes a subject of taboo.
I half expect CSS to be brought back to the fore if this action is successful, since it can be argued that any content protection system should be recognized by Law and that any future protection method is to be automatically enshrined as untouchable, not to be reverse-engineered or circumvented by any means, in perpetuity. A way to get the authorities to recognize DRM as a legitimate protection and set a precedent in law which prevents people bypassing such methods. Like with the Pirate Bay, this will just be a game of whack-a-mole. Since the plaintiff is AACS LA LCC this must be over the Blu-ray decryption function of DVDFab.
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