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Date sent:      	Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:08:04 -0400
From:           	David Sobel <sobel@epic.org>
Subject:        	New DVD Piracy Cases Filed
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Friday January 14, 4:43 pm Eastern Time

Company Press Release

Film Studios Bring Claim Against DVD Hackers in Federal Court

LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2000--On January 14,
2000, in response to the illegal hacking of the DVD encryption
system ``CSS,'' and subsequent Internet distribution of an
unauthorized de-encryption formula, the major motion picture
companies filed injunction complaints in the Southern District
of New York and District of Connecticut against three defendants
to prevent them from making the formula available on their Web
sites. The defendants in New York are Shawn C. Reimerdes, Eric
Corley A/K/A ``Emmanuel Goldstein,'' and Jeraimee Hughes in the
District of Connecticut.

The plaintiffs are Universal Studios, Inc.; Paramount Pictures
Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Tristar Pictures,
Inc.; Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.; Time Warner
Entertainment Co., L.P.; Disney Enterprises, Inc.; and Twentieth
Century Fox Film Corporation.

Announcing the court action, Jack Valenti, President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America
(MPAA), made the following statement:

``The MPAA is striking a blow today in defense of the future of
American movies. We have filed suit in federal court to stop
Internet hackers from distributing the software designed to
circumvent the encryption technology that prevents unlawful
copying of DVDs.

``This is a case of theft. The posting of the de-encryption
formula is no different from making and then distributing
unauthorized keys to a department store. The keys have no real
purpose except to circumvent the locks that stand between the
thief and the goods he or she targets,'' said Valenti.

Under federal law, it is illegal for anyone to traffic in any
product that is designed to render useless encryption devices
that protect copyrighted material. In 1998, Congress passed and
President Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) to protect the creators of copyrighted material from
seeing their life's work stolen by Internet hackers.

The MPAA strongly supported the DMCA precisely because of
concerns about online piracy of motion pictures. The defendants'
brazen trafficking of the unauthorized utility plainly violates
the `anti-circumvention' provisions of the DMCA.

``The U.S. movie industry intends to defeat anyone who steals
our intellectual property. We are determined to defend the
technology that protects artists' and intellectual property
holders' rights,'' vowed Valenti. ``If you can't protect that
which you own, then you don't own anything.''

Additional information on this case may be found on the MPAA Web
site at www.mpaa.org.

Contact:

     MPAA
     Rich Taylor or Phuong Yokitis, 202/293-1966
     Emily Kutner, 818/995-6600
          or
     Edelman Public Relations
     John Stodder, 323/857-9100

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14 January 2000
Source for three files: John Gilmore 

     Press Release 

     Connecticut Complaint, MPAA v. Jeraimee Hughes 

     New York Complaint, MPAA v. Shawn C. Reimerdes; Eric Corley
     A/K/A "Emmanuel Goldstein"; and Roman
     Kazan 

Intratextual links by Cryptome. 

Note: Emily Kutner with MPAA emphasized today to Cryptome that MPAA 
is not a party to the DVD-CCA California suit on DeCSS; that MPAA is 
not a member of DVD-CCA; that MPAA has only provided a declaration in 
that suit; and that MPAA's two federal claims are unrelated to the 
California suit.  

[...]

[Originally from: http://www.mpaa/DVD/Connecticut%20Claim.htm] 

                  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

                     DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT 

          UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC.;
          PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION;
          METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC.;
          TRISTAR PICTURES, INC.; COLUMBIA
          PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.; TIME WARNER
          ENTERTAINMENT CO., L.P.; DISNEY
          ENTERPRISES, INC.; AND TWENTIETH
          CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION, 

          Plaintiffs, 

                              v. 

          JERAIMEE HUGHES, 

          Defendant.

[...]
                          COMPLAINT 

(For Violation of Provisions Governing Circumvention of Copyright 
Protection Systems, 17 U.S.C. § 1201, et seq.)  

Plaintiffs Universal City Studios, Inc.; Paramount Pictures 
Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; TriStar Pictures,
Inc.; Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.; Time Warner Entertainment 
Co., L.P.; Disney Enterprises, Inc.; and Twentieth
Century Fox Film Corporation by their attorneys Cummings & Lockwood, 
as and for their complaint, allege as follows: 

                       Nature of the Claims 

1. This is a Complaint for injunctive relief and for money damages 
and related relief against Jeraimee Hughes ("Hughes" or "Defendant"), 
an individual responsible for proliferating a software device that 
unlawfully defeats the DVD copy protection and access control system -
- the Contents Scramble System ("CSS") -- so that individuals can 
make, distribute, and/or otherwise electronically transmit or perform 
unauthorized copies of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted motion pictures and 
other audiovisual works. The acts of the Defendant, which are 
described more fully below, violate the provisions of the United 
States Copyright Act governing circumvention of copyright protection 
systems, 17 U.S.C. § 1201, et seq.  

[...]

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