I’ve made the Pavlovich Decision available in HTML too (that’s true to the PDF document page-number-wise – for easy printing, citing, etc.).
Let me know if you need me to embed a link for you for a specific purpose. (That’s the point of having these documents available online — So we can all reference them and cite specific portions directly.)
Supreme Court Intervenes in DVD Dispute
Supreme Court Urged to Settle DVD Copying Dispute; Could Be Landmark for Online Content
The Supreme Court has temporarily intervened in a fight over DVD copying, and the justices could eventually use the case to decide how easy it will be for people to post software on the Internet that helps others copy movies.
More broadly, the case against a webmaster whose site offered a program to break DVD security codes could resolve how people can be sued for what they put online…
The California Supreme Court ruled in November that the former webmaster, Matthew Pavlovich, cannot be sued for trade secret infringement in California. Justices said he could be sued in his home state of Texas, or in Indiana, where he was a college student when codes that allowed people to copy DVDs were posted on his Web site in 1999.
Here is the full text of the article in case the link goes bad:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20021230_1575.html
WASHINGTON Dec. 30