Only two weeks after an American judge ruled a preliminary injunction order against DVDFab should remain in effect, the Chinese software developer sees its social media accounts shut down. Also TDMore, which was later added to the injunction order, suffers from the legal actions initiated by Blu-ray copy protection developer and licensing body AACS-LA.
The injunction order forces companies that fall under American jurisdiction, to stop providing services to DVDFab and TDMore. After the injunction is received, companies have three days to stop providing their services.
The DVDFab Twitter, Google+ and Facebook pages have all been removed. It's the second time the accounts are suspended, almost one year ago, on the 2nd of April 2014, the company also lost its social media accounts. Despite the legal actions, DVDFab has continued to be in business, mainly by no longer making use of American service providers. The DVDFab website appears to be doing business as usual.
Currently heavier affected appears to be TDMore, which also lost it social media accounts and is currently also unable to process orders. The company's website shows a message stating, "TDMore stops sales temporarily, but we still provide consistent upgradete (sic) for all TDMorers".
The culprit appears to be payment provider Digital River MyCommerce which no longer processes orders for TDMore. Also DVDFab suffered from a payment provider outage and therefore moved to China based Alipay which currently processes orders for DVDFab.
Although the injunction order doesn't provide any proof that DVDFab and TDMore are related, it appears both are now targeted by AACS-LA. Also the free copy protection removal tool WoooKao is mentioned and likely thought to be developed by and/or affiliated to DVDFab.
The AACS-LA initially targeted DVDFab for selling software that could circumvent the Blu-ray copy protection AACS. Despite the fact that DVDFab also sells and sold software that doesn't contain AACS circumventing techniques, it appears the AACS copy protection developer and licensing body tries to shut down the entire company.
The AACS-LA has as founding members technology giants such as Microsoft, Panasonic, IBM, Intel, Toshiba, Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Because the conglomerate takes it up against DVDFab, a relative small China based company, the story resembles that of David vs. Goliath.
