Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes

OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

This is an action by major motion picture studios against Eric Corley and 2600 Enterprises, Inc. 1 under the Digital Mille-nium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). 2 Plaintiffs in substance claim that the defendants threaten to post a software program known as DeCSS on their Internet web sites. As the function of DeCSS allegedly is to circumvent the encryption software that protects plaintiffs’ copyrighted movies that are distributed on digital versatile discs (“DVDs”), it is plaintiffs’ position that defendants’ dissemination of DeCSS via the Internet (or otherwise) would…