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CaseNo: UCSIVSCR238865, CourtName: REMAINING DEFENDANTS AND THE COURT HAVING RENDERED ITS OPINION CONTAINING FINDINGS OF FACT AND, Plaintiff: UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS INC, State: NY New York, UniqueCaseRef: LCD>UCSIVSCR238865, Internet, Decss, Studios, Operating System, Dvd, Technology, Web Site, United States, Motion Pictures, Css, Circumvention, Controls Access, Copyright Act, Effectively Controls Access, Protection, Dvd Player, Appearance, Dmca, Encryption, Decrypted Files, Distribution, Source Code, Universal City Studios, Posting Decss, Statutory Exceptions, Object Code, Manufacturers, Circumventing, Controls, Portions Thereof, District, Pictures, Internet Web Site, Purpose, Rights, Reproduce, Adapt, Shawn , ContentID: 120245912

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1   OPINION
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2 2000-05 JUDGMENT
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1 . OPINION

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
PLAINTIFFS
INTERNET
DECSS
COURT
STUDIOS
OPERATING SYSTEM
DVD
TECHNOLOGY
WEB SITE
UNITED STATES
MOTION PICTURES
CIRCUMVENTION
CONTROLS ACCESS
CSS
COPYRIGHT ACT
EFFECTIVELY CONTROLS ACCESS
DVD PLAYER
APPEARANCE
DMCA
ENCRYPTION
DECRYPTED FILES
DISTRIBUTION
SOURCE CODE
UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS
PROTECTION
POSTING DECSS
STATUTORY EXCEPTIONS
OBJECT CODE
MANUFACTURERS
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC, et al.,

                             Plaintiffs,

                   -against-                                                       00 Civ. 0277

SHAWN C. REIMERDES, et al.,

                             Defendants.
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                                                         OPINION



                             Appearances:



                                                 Leon P. Gold
                                                 Jon A. Baumgarten
                                                 Charles S. Sims
                                                 Scott P. Cooper
                                                 William M. Hart
                                                 Michael M. Mervis
                                                 Carla M. Miller
                                                 PROSKAUER ROSE LLP
                                                 Attorneys for Plaintiffs


                                                 Martin Garbus
                                                 George E. Singleton
                                                 David Y. Atlas
                                                 Edward Hernstadt
                                                 FRANKFURT, GARBUS, KLEIN & SELZ, P.C.
                                                 Attorneys for Defendants



                                                            Contents



I.         The Genesis of the Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SNIPPETS:
  • UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
  • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - x UNIVERSAL CITY
  • The Internet and the World Wide Web
  • The Technology Here at Issue
  • The Development of DVD and CSS.
  • The Appearance of DeCSS.
  • E. The Distribution of DeCSS.
  • F. The Preliminary Injunction and Defendants' Response.
  • Effects on Plaintiffs.
  • Statutory Exceptions
  • Plaintiffs, eight major United States motion picture studios, distribute many of their
  • copyrighted motion pictures for home use on digital versatile disks,
  • encryption system called CSS.
  • brought this action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1 to enjoin defendants
  • their efforts to link their web site to a large number of others that continue to make DeCSS
  • the DMCA, as applied to computer programs, or code, violates the First Amendment.2 This is the
  • preliminary injunction barring defendants from posting DeCSS.
  • Proponents of strong restrictions on circumvention of access control measures argued that they
  • computer code, regardless of its function, is "speech" entitled to maximum constitutional
  • An operating system is "a software program that controls the allocation and use of
  • The Court's findings with respect to the definitions of source code and object code are taken
  • system that requires the use of appropriately configured hardware such as a DVD player or a
  • DVDs29 has been licensed to hundreds of manufacturers in the United States and around the

  • 2 . JUDGMENT

    EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
    PLAINTIFFS
    CIRCUMVENTING
    CONTROLS
    DEFENDANTS
    PORTIONS THEREOF
    DECSS
    WEB SITE
    TECHNOLOGY
    CSS
    DISTRICT
    PICTURES
    INTERNET WEB SITE
    PURPOSE
    EFFECTIVELY CONTROLS ACCESS
    RIGHTS
    REPRODUCE
    ADAPT
    SHAWN
    REIMERDES
    CORLEY A/K/A
    EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN
    ROMAN KAZAN
    ENTERPRISES
    HEREBY
    CONCERT
    IMPORTING
    OFFERING
    TRAFFICKING
    POSTING
    
    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
    SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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    UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., PARA-
    MOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION, METRO-
    GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS, INC., TRISTAR
    PICTURES, INC., COLUMBIA PICTURES IN-
    DUSTRIES, INC., TIME WARNER ENTER-
    TAINMENT CO., L.P., DISNEY ENTER-
    PRISES, INC. and TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
    FILM CORPORATION,
    
                                   Plaintiffs,
    
                         -against-                                                           00 Civ.
    
    SHAWN C. REIMERDES, ERIC CORLEY a/k/a
    "EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN," ROMAN KAZAN,
    and 2600 ENTERPRISES, INC.,
    
                                   Defendants.
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                                                         FINAL JUDGMENT
    
    LEWIS A. KAPLAN,  District Judge.
    
                         This action previously having been settled as to defendants Shawn C. Reimerdes
    
    Roman Kazan, and having duly come on for trial before the undersigned as to the claims against
    
    defendants Eric C. Corley a/k/a "Emmanuel Goldstein" and 2600 Enterprises, Inc. (collectively, the
    
    "Remaining Defendants"), and the Court having rendered its opinion containing findings of fact and
    
    conclusions of law, it is hereby
    
                         ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED as follows:
    
                         1.        The Remaining Defendants, their officers, agents, servants,
    
    attorneys and all persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of
    
    order by personal service or otherwise be and they hereby are permanently enjoined and restrained
    
    from:
    
                                   (a)        posting on any Internet web site, or in any other way
    
    
    SNIPPETS:
  • UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
  • UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., PARA-MOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION, METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS,
  • SHAWN C. REIMERDES, ERIC CORLEY a/k/a
  • "EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN," ROMAN KAZAN,
  • defendants Eric C. Corley a/k/a "Emmanuel Goldstein" and 2600 Enterprises, Inc.
  • attorneys and all persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual
  • order by personal service or otherwise be and they hereby are permanently enjoined and
  • importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in any
  • technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that:
  • circumventing, or circumventing the protection afforded by, CSS, or any other
  • technological measure adopted by plaintiffs that effectively controls access to
  • plaintiffs' copyrighted works or effectively protects the plaintiffs' rights to
  • rights to control whether an end user can reproduce, manufacture, adapt,
  • plaintiffs that effectively controls access to the plaintiffs' copyrighted works
  • knowingly linking any Internet web site operated by them to any other
  • web site containing DeCSS, or knowingly maintaining any such link, for the purpose
  • that the Remaining defendants' posting of DeCSS on an Internet web site violated the Digital
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