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              | Date: 2000-09-09 
 
 DeCSS: MPAA-Anwälte an quintessenz-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.-
 
 Wie es so Brauch ist, wenn die US-Filmlobby mit
 Schrotflinten gegen das Netz schießt: sie nehmen immer
 eine Person aufs Korn, egal wers ist, nur keine Gruppe,
 keinen Verein, wie etwa quintessenz. Hier haben sie jemand
 ausgesucht, der die Domain quintessenz.at vor Urzeiten
 registriert hat.
 
 Wie gegen 2600.com und andere in den USA soll auch in EU
 ein gerichtliches *Linkverbot* auf DeCSS durchgesetzt
 werden.. Darum geht es den Unterzeichneten: "Respectfully,
 The Motion Picture Association"
 
 post/scrypt: Wir ersuchen das p.t. Publikum höflich um
 etwas Beherrschung. Irgendwer in den hinteren Reihen hat
 schon wieder "Arschlöcher" gesagt.
 
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 From: 	Ernest E Vogelsinger Subject: DeCSS / Motion
 Picture Association
 
 Motion Picture Association		 World Wide Anti-Piracy
 15503 Ventura Blvd.  Encino, CA 91436 Phone: (818)
 728-8127			 Email: MPAA23@pacbell.net
 
 
 September 6, 2000
 
 Ernest E. Vogelsinger
 [...]
 
 
 RE:	Illegal Provision of DeCSS/Circumvention Device
 Site/URL: quintessenz.at/q 	MPA File #: 5-671-822
 
 
 Dear Ernest E. Vogelsinger:
 
 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, which violates, inter alia, United States federal law.
 Specifically, providing or offering DeCSS to the public on your
 network or system violates the Digital Millennium Copyright
 Act, 17 U.S.C. §1201 et seq. ("DMCA"), which proscribes
 "manufacturing, importing or offering to the public, providing,
 or otherwise trafficking" in an unlawful circumvention device.
 
 On August 17, 2000, a federal district court in the Southern
 District of New York confirmed that offering, providing, or
 trafficking in DeCSS, or any other device designed to
 circumvent CSS, violates the DMCA. The district court
 granted a permanent injunction against (1) posting on any
 Internet site, or in any other way manufacturing, importing or
 offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in
 DeCSS or any other technology primarily designed to
 circumvent CSS, and (2) linking any Internet web site, either
 directly or through a series of links, to any other Internet web
 site containing DeCSS.
 
 Based on the foregoing, we request 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.
 
 By copy of this letter, the owner of the above-referenced URL
 and/or email account is hereby directed to cease and desist
 from the conduct complained of herein.
 
 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
 
 
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 edited by Harkank
 published on: 2000-09-09
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