1 WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
JARED B. BOBROW (State Bar. No. 133712)
2 2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 280
Menlo Park, California 94025
3 Telephone: (650) 926-6200
Facsimile: (650) 854-3713
4 OF COUNSEL:
5 WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
ROBERT G. SUGARMAN*
6 JEFFREY L. KESSLER*
767 Fifth Avenue
7 New York, New York 10153
Telephone: (212) 310-8000
8 Facsimile: (212) 310-8007
9 Attorneys for Plaintiff
DVD Copy Control Association, Inc.
10 Additional Counsel Listed On The Signature Page
11 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
12 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
13 DVD COPY CONTROL ASSOCIATION, INC., Case No.
a not-for-profit trade association,
14
Plaintiff, COMPLAINT FOR
15 INJUNCTIVE RELIEF FOR
v. MISAPPROPRIATION OF
16 TRADE SECRETS
ANDREW THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN, an
17 individual; ANDREW BUNNER, an individual;
JOHN V. KEW, an individual; SCOTT
18 KARLINS, an individual; GLENN
ROSENBLATT, an individual; DALE
19 EMMONS, an individual, EMMANUEL
GOLDSTEIN, an individual; DOUGLAS R.
20 WINSLOW, an individual; JONATHAN
BLANK, an individual; ROGER KUMAR, an
21 individual; ROBERT JONES, an individual; EN
HONG, an individual; MATTHEW ROBERT
22 PAVOLICH, an individual; IAN A.
GULLIVER, an individual; JON HANSON, an
23 individual; DAVID M. CHAN, an individual;
CAMERON SIMPSON, an individual; TOM
24 VOGT, an individual; CYRIL AMSELLEM, an
individual; THORSTEN FENK, an individual;
25 ADRIAN BAUGH, an individual and DOES 1-
500, inclusive.
SNIPPETS:
GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP ROBERT G. SUGARMAN*
New York, New York 10153 Telephone:
Attorneys for Plaintiff DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. 10 Additional Counsel Listed On
21 individual; ROBERT JONES, an individual; EN HONG, an individual; MATTHEW ROBERT
23 individual; DAVID M. CHAN, an individual; CAMERON SIMPSON, an individual; TOM
Digital Video Disc technology, brings this action to enjoin defendant web site owners
from their continued misappropriation of trade secrets licensed by DVD CCA.
DVD CCA is informed and believes, and based thereon alleges that Defendants have disclosed,
25 on their web sites has caused the illegal pirating of the motion picture industry's
California of which there are 42 in this county and an additional 17 in other Bay area
chill future technological innovation in the motion picture, consumer electronics and computer
Plaintiff, DVD CCA, is a not-for-profit trade association organized under
20 defendant Andrew Thomas McLaughlin is a citizen of the State of California,
25 Internet web site addressed as www.sharedlib.org/decss.zip.
14 defendant Matthew Robert Pavolich is a citizen of the State of Indiana,
22 defendant Jon Hanson is a citizen of the State of Kansas,
disseminate confidential proprietary CSS information and also provide "links" to other web
licensees of DVD CCA using the detailed specifications which is provided by DVD CCA to such
27 DVD video industry.
as the sole duly authorized licensing entity for the CSS technology.
The CSS Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions under which the CSS
23 provides the necessary descrambling technology and "master keys" to do so.
19 CSS technology, which is and was critical to the adoption of the DVD video format, ought
The DeCSS program which appeared on this
27 would not have allowed their copyrighted motion pictures to be available in this new
the Defendants' continued misappropriation of proprietary CSS
computer and consumer electronics industries' DVD-based products.
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