The Sony documents published by Wikileaks reveal that the AACS-LA didn't want to seek publicity on their victory in the DVDFab case. An email from a AACS-LA lawyer reporting back to several involved companies states, "for various reasons, we did not seek, nor are we now seeking, any publicity concerning this case."
"We hope that the approach taken here will be useful for us with regard to the purveyors of other circumvention programs and tools", the mail continues. The approach certainly helped, soon after the lawsuit other software developers withdrew their Blu-ray ripping software.
It's likely that the AACS-LA didn't want to seek publicity on the case as it doesn't attribute to a positive image of the movie industry. Nevertheless, several sites, including ours, reported about the case, the mail states about that, "that said, we are aware of a number of Internet postings that discuss this situation, so at least that level of publicity has been unavoidable."
Last year the AACS-LA sued DVDFab in an American court which ordered an injunction against the Chinese company. Based on the injunction order the DVDFab.com domain was shutdown and the company lost its social media accounts and payment provider. DVDFab then moved most of its critical infrastructure to China and operates as usual.
This post is part of a series on the leaked Sony documents and emails published by Wikileaks.
