Sandra Day O'connor threw out an emergency stay that was requested by the movie industry that was to stop Matthew Pavlovich (former webmaster) from posting DVD decryption programs on the net. The stay was dropped after Pavlovich's lawyer argued that Matthew had no plans to post any more, and that there were already lots of other sites on the internet that had similar software. SecurityFocus Online said this:
The Supreme Court threw out an emergency stay that barred a former webmaster from putting DVD decryption programs on the Internet. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on Friday had imposed the stay last week at the urging of a group that licenses software to film studios to block the illegal copying of DVDs. New York attorney Jeffrey Kessler said the association fears that former webmaster Matthew Pavlovich will repost programs that help people duplicate movies for free. Pavlovich's lawyer said he has no plans to do that, and argued that the stay was unnecessary because decryption programs are already available on hundreds of other Web sites and have been printed in magazines and newspapers. |
Matthew Pavlovich cannot be sued in California as he is not a citizen there. You can read the entire article here.
Source: Associated Press
