00 Civ. 277 (LAK)(RLE)ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE)Upon the annexed Complaint of plaintiffs Universal City Studios, Inc.; ParamountPictures Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; TriStar Pictures, Inc.;Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.; Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P.; DisneyEnterprises, Inc.; and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (collectively"Plaintiffs"), the Declaration of Fritz Attaway, sworn to January 13, 2000, theDeclaration of Michael Ostroff, sworn to January 13, 2000, the Declaration ofBruce E. Boyden, Esq., sworn to January 13, 2000, and Plaintiffs' Memorandum ofLaw in Support of their Application for a Preliminary Injunction, and good causebeing shown therefore;IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that defendants, Shawn C. Reimerdes, Eric Corley a/k/aEmmanuel Goldstein, and Roman Kazan (collectively "Defendants"), show causebefore this Court, at the United States District Court for the Southern Districtof New York, Room 12D, 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York on January 20, 2000,at 11:00 am, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why an order shouldnot be entered pursuant to Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedurepreliminarily enjoining Defendants, their agents, servants, employees, and allother persons in active concert or privity or in participation with them, duringthe pendency of this action, from:(a) posting on any Internet website, or in any other way manufacturing,importing, offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking inDeCSS, and(b) posting on any Internet website, or in any other way manufacturing,importing, offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in anytechnology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that:(i) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing, orcircumventing the protection afforded by, CSS, or any other technological measureadopted by Plaintiffs that effectively controls access to Plaintiffs' copyrightedworks or effectively protects the Plaintiffs' rights to control whether an enduser can reproduce, manufacture, adapt, publicly perform and/or distributeunauthorized copies of their copyrighted works or portions thereof,(ii) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than tocircumvent, or to circumvent the protection afforded by, CSS, or any othertechnological measure adopted by Plaintiffs that effectively controls access toPlaintiffs' copyrighted works or effectively protects the Plaintiffs' rights tocontrol whether an end user can reproduce, manufacture, adapt, publicly performand/or distribute unauthorized copies of their copyrighted works or portionsthereof, or(iii)is marketed by Defendants and/or others acting in concert with them with theknowledge of its use in circumventing, or in circumventing the protection affordedby, CSS, or any other technological measure adopted by Plaintiffs that effectivelycontrols access to the Plaintiffs' copyrighted works or effectively protects thePlaintiffs' rights to control whether an end user can reproduce, manufacture,adapt, publicly perform and/or distribute unauthorized copies of their copyrighted
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