From: "mpaa.23" To: Subject: Re: cdegroot.com Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:03:14 -0800 Motion Picture Association 15503 Ventura Blvd. World Wide Anti-Piracy Encino, CA 91436 Phone: (818) 728-8127 Email: MPAA.23@Gateway.net Cees De Groot Boerhaavelaan 98 Eerbeek, 6961 ZX Netherlands cg@EVRL.XS4ALL.NL Date: February 9, 2000 RE: Illegal Provision of DeCSS/Circumvention Device Site/URL: cdegroot.com/ Dear Cees De Groot: The Motion Picture Association is authorized to act on behalf of the following copyright owners: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Disney Enterprises, Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation TriStar Pictures, Inc. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation United Artists Pictures, Inc. United Artists Corporation Universal City Studios, Inc. Warner Bros., a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P. We have knowledge that the above-referenced Internet site is providing a circumvention device commonly known as DeCSS. DeCSS is a software utility that decrypts or unscrambles the contents of DVDs (consisting of copyrighted motion pictures) or otherwise circumvents the protection afforded by the Contents Scramble System (CSS) and permits the copying of the DVD contents and/or any portion thereof. As such, DeCSS is an unlawful circumvention device within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. §1201(a)(2),(3). Providing or offering DeCSS to the public on your system or network violates the provisions of §1201(a)(2) which prohibits the "manufacturing, importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking" in an unlawful circumvention device. On January 20, 2000, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a Preliminary Injunction prohibiting the Internet posting or other provision of DeCSS, having found that DeCSS was a prohibited circumvention device within the meaning of §1201(a)(2) and that the offering, providing or trafficking of DeCSS on the Internet violated §1201(a)(2). That court thus enjoined: Posting on any Internet web site, or in any other way manufacturing, importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in DeCSS, and (b) posting on any Internet web site, or in any other way manufacturing, importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that: (i) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing, or circumvention the protection afforded by, CSS, or any other technological measure that effectively controls access to plaintiffs' copyrighted works or effectively protects the plaintiffs' rights to control whether an end user can reproduce, manufacture, adapt, publicly perform and/or distribute unauthorized copies of their copyrighted works or portions thereof. . . The Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California also recently granted a Preliminary Injunction against the Internet posting of DeCSS. If you are bound by an injunction, maintaining the DeCSS utility on your system or network violates the above injunction[s] and risks court sanctions for contempt. We hereby demand that you: 1) take appropriate steps to cause immediate removal of DeCSS from the above identified URL, along with such other actions as may be necessary or appropriate to suspend this illegal activity; 2) provide appropriate notice to the subscriber or account holder responsible for the presence of DeCSS on your system or network, advising him/her of the contents of this notice and directing that person to contact the undersigned immediately at the e-mail address provided above; 3) advise us of the name and physical address of the person operating this site; and 4) maintain, and take whatever steps are necessary to prevent the destruction of, all records, including electronic records, in your possession or control respecting this URL, account holder or subscriber. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Your immediate response is requested. The information in this notification is accurate, and we declare, under penalty of perjury, that the Motion Picture Association is authorized to act on behalf of the owner[s] of exclusive rights described above. Should you have any questions, please contact us at the above listed address. Respectfully, The Motion Picture Association ----- Original Message ----- From: Cees de Groot To: mpaa.23 Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:47 AM Subject: Re: cdegroot.com > You sent me an email in some format which is not standardized on the Internet > (I assume it is MS Word?) and therefore unreadable by me. I don't know what's > in the document, but if you think you have something to tell me, please send > me your text in a document format that has been accepted and standardized, > like plain ASCII text or HTML. > > Regards, > > Cees > -- > Cees de Groot http://www.cdegroot.com > > >