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ok what is "Excryption"
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:00:05 -0500
Calif. Court Won't Take Excryption Case By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:45 p.m. ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's highest court said Monday that a group licensing DVD encryption software to the motion picture industry cannot use the state's courts to sue a Texas man for posting on the Internet codes to break such software. Without addressing the merits of the case, the state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the California-based DVD Copy Control Association must sue Matthew Pavlovich for trade secret infringement in his home state of Texas, or Indiana, where he was when he posted the codes. The DVD Copy Control Association licenses its software to film studios to block the illegal copying of DVD movies. Pavlovich, co-founder of Dallas-based Media Driver LLC, posted codes in 1999 that would allow for the copying of DVDs. Justice Janice Rogers Brown said that the association's allegation is that Pavlovich ``should have known'' that his conduct may harm any industry associated with the motion picture industry, which is largely based in California. But those allegations alone don't require out-of-state residents to answer suits in California, the court said. The three-judge minority said that, under the majority's decision, the association may have to litigate its case in several states with conceivably different outcomes because 21 defendants from various states are being sued. Robert Sugarman, an attorney for the Morgan Hill-based association, said the group was exploring its options, including suing Pavlovich in Texas or another state in which all the defendants can be sued in one court. Still, the justices have not answered the key question of whether the same charges in the same case against a California man can withstand a free speech defense. A San Jose-based state appeals court ruled last year that it was a ``prior restraint'' to prohibit the posting of the encryption-breaking code on the Internet. The 6th District Court of Appeal, in overturning a judge's order forbidding Andrew Bunner of San Francisco from posting the code, ruled that protecting trade secrets is not as important as ``the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.'' ``At the end of the day, this is code posted on a Web site,'' said Pavlovich's attorney, Allonn Levy. ``There is nothing illegal about that.'' ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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