Australian distributors and retailers have been contacted by an Australian affiliate of the Motion Picture Association of Amercia (MPAA) to remove the software of 321 Studios. The company that is best known for DVDxCopy also sells software to recover information from CDs and DVDs and software to create DVDs from powerpoint presentations and also this software has to be removed according to the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).
DVDxCopy is able to remove the CSS (Content Scrambling System) protection from a DVD and the developers of the software are therefor in a legal battle in the United States and the United Kingdom. However it seems that they are now also focussing on other countries and Australia seems to be another 'victim'. In order to avoid any legal procedures 321 Studios replaced the DVDxCopy copies in Australia with a version that does not contain code that could break the CSS protection.
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'These other products were not even legally challenged," CEO of 321 Studios, Rob Semaan, said. 'In fact, Conexus spoke with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and they were on our side." 'So we replaced the original software with a ripper-free version, and resellers put our products back on their shelves. The AFACT then called and told us that this was acceptable." Consumers who bought the new version could nonetheless easily obtain a ripper from the Internet, or buy the original version from 321 Studios' website, he said. |
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Source: ARNet.com.au
