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[FYI] DVD-Industrie will sogar Links auf CSS-Crack gerichtlich untersagen lassen
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:28:08 +0200
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http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33303,00.html
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DVD Hackers Hit With Lawsuit Chris Oakes
7:00 a.m. 28.Dec.1999 PST
The DVD industry sued 72 hackers and Web-site authors Tuesday for
posting -- and even linking to -- software that unlocks the system
for preventing illegal copying of digital video discs.
The DVD industry alleges that "each of the Doe defendants ... operate
Internet Web sites ... which disseminate confidential proprietary
[Content Scrambling System] information," the DVD Copyright Control
Association charged in a suit filed in a California Superior Court.
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Dies ist sicher die groesste Infragestellung der "Linkfreiheit" im
Internet, die bisher unternommen wurde, denn der Klageantrag richtet
sich nicht nur gegen Verantwortliche solcher Websites, die die Daten
zum DVD-Entschluesseln veroeffentlicht haben, sondern auch gegen
solche, die lediglich *Links* dazu in ein HTML-Dokument aufgenommen
haben. Klaegerin ist die DVD COPY CONTROL ASSOCIATION, INC., eine
"not-for-profit trade association".
Die namentlich benannten Beklagten sind: ANDREW THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN,
ANDREW BUNNER, JOHN V. KEW, SCOTT KARLINS, GLENN ROSENBLATT, DALE
EMMONS, EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN, DOUGLAS R. WINSLOW, JONATHAN BLANK, ROGER
KUMAR, ROBERT JONES, EN HONG, MATTHEW ROBERT PAVOLICH, IAN A.
GULLIVER, JON HANSON, DAVID M. CHAN, CAMERON SIMPSON, TOM VOGT, CYRIL
AMSELLEM, THORSTEN FENK, und ADRIAN BAUGH. Dazu kommen noch "DOES 1-
500", d.h. symbolisch 500 noch zu benennende Individuen. Wenn ich das
mit den "John Does" richtig verstehe, handelt es sich daher um eine
"Class Action". Die Klage betrifft nicht nur U.S.-Amerikaner, sondern
auch Personen mit Sitz und/oder Staatsangehoerigkeit ausserhalb der
USA.
Die Klageschrift bezeichnet im einzelnen 72 Websites (mit URL), die
entweder selber DVD-Informationen verbreitet haben oder aber die
einen Link dazu angeboten haben.
Der Klageantrag lautet:
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DVD CCA prays for judgment:
1. that Defendants have willfully misappropriated the CSS technology
trade secrets;
2. entering a temporary restraining order and preliminary and
permanent injunctions, enjoining and restraining Defendants, their
officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees,
attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert,
combination or participation with any of them either directly or
indirectly, singly or together, from making any further use or
otherwise disclosing or distributing, on their web sites or
elsewhere, or “linking” to other web sites which disclose,
distribute, or “link” to any proprietary property or trade secrets
relating to the CSS technology and specifically enjoining Defendants,
its officers, directors, principals, agents, servants, employees,
attorneys, successors and assigns, and all those acting in concert,
combination or participation with any of them either directly or
indirectly, singly or together, from copying, duplicating, licensing,
selling, distributing, publishing, leasing, renting or otherwise
marketing the DeCSS computer program and all other products
containing, using, and/or substantially derived from CSS proprietary
property or trade secrets;
3. awarding to DVD CCA the costs of this action, reasonable attorneys
fees, and such further and other relief as is found just and proper.
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