Shawn Reimerdes
- Web: https://shawn.reimerd.es
- Email: shawn at reimerd.es
My Federal Court Cases
- Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes (1999)
- Novell, Inc. v. Reimerdes (1993)
January 14, 2000:
8 movie studios
(Universal City Studios, Inc.,
Paramount Pictures Corporation,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc.,
Tristar Pictures, Inc.,
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.,
Time Warner Entertainment Co.,
Disney Enterprises, Inc. and
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)
all filed lawsuit.
This was the first ever test of the DMCA. Reimerdes was originally sued because he hosted the source code for DeCSS on dvd-copy.com, a personal website.
September 27, 1993:
a multinational software company, Novell, served a summons to him while in a high school class. Over a dozen Federal agents arrived from Utah arrived to seize all computer equipment at his parents house. They claimed that he operated a pirate bulletin board system (BBS) that distributed copyrighted computer software programs over telephone wires outfitted with modems.
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