[FYI] DVD-Industrie will sogar Links auf CSS-Crack gerichtlich untersagen lassen

["Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>]

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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- AHH