Conductor used our news submit to tell us that that German IFPI (which represents the German entertainment industry) has booked a success against S.A.D. the company that distributes MovieJack software which is developed by Engelmann Media. MovieJack used a DeCSS function to remove the DVD copy protection (CSS - Content Scrambling System) but due new copyright laws in Germany the IFPI was able to succesfully get an omission order.
MovieJack "does not serrate no more Regional court Munich issues provisional order - "out" for Knacktool of the company S.A.D. "new copyright applies for software enterprises to everyone, also must to it adhere", explains Gerd Gebhardt, chairman of the German Phonoverbaende. _ "who mean, by legal appraisal Absolution get can, that will a good instruct." Since in the middle of September is the amended copyright law in strength. It supports creative ones and producers in its efforts to protect its works and achievements from uncontrolled copying. So in particular production and selling are forbidden from software to cracking a copy protection. But some developers and offerers of sucked. "Knacktools" did not want to resign themselves to it. A Ulmer manufacturer from fuel software to clones of DVDs ("MovieJack"), the S.A.D. GmbH, offered public-effectively a software Patch, which makes the evasion possible of copy protection. The enterprise appointed itself thereby to a legal opinion particularly given in order, which as desired certified it the alleged legality of the offer and it as Persilschein serve should. The reaction of the music enterprises hurt in their rights followed promptly: Represented by the Munich kanzlei they obtained whale village of attorneys at the regional court Munich an omission order, which sets an end for illegal driving. |
There is still software available that is able to circumvent the DVD copy protection. Software such as DVDxCopy and AnyDVD have no
problem removing it. In the meanwhile MovieJack is also
still available. Read the original article on the German IFPI website , better translations are always welcome.
Source: IFPI
