UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTSOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK--------------------------------------------xUNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., et al.,                             Plaintiffs,               -against-                                                             00 Civ. 0277 (LAK)SHAWN C. REIMERDES, ERIC CORLEYa/k/a "EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN," andROMAN KAZAN,                             Defendants.--------------------------------------------x                               PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIONLewis A. Kaplan, District Judge.                    Plaintiffs having moved for a preliminary injunction and the Court having consideredpapers in support of and in opposition to the motion, heard argument of counsel, made preliminaryfindings of fact and conclusions of law on the record, and indicated that it subsequently will file afuller opinion, it is hereby                    ORDERED, as folows:                    1.      Plaintiffs' motion is granted.                    2.      Defenants Shawn C. Reimerdes, Eric Corley a/k/a "Emmanuel Goldstein"and Roman Kazan, their officers, agents, servants, employees and attorneys and all persons in activeconcert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this order by personal service orotherwise be and they hereby are enjoined and restrained, pending the hearing and finaldetermination of this action from                             (a)      posting on any Internet web site, or in any other way manufacturing,                    importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in DeCSS, and                             (b)      posting on any Internet web site, or in any other way manufacturing,                    importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in any                    technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that:                                       (i)      is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of                                                 circumventing, or circumvention the protection afforded by,                                                 CSS, or any other technological measure adopted by plaintiffs                                                 that effectively controls access to plaintiffs' copyrighted                                                 works or effectively protects the plaintiffs' rights to control                                                 whether an end user can reproduce, manufacture, adapt,                                                 publicly perform and/or distribute unauthorized copies of                                                 their copyrighted works or portions thereof;                                       (ii)     has only limited commercially significant purposes or use                                                 other than to circumvent, or to circumvent the protection                                                 afforded by, CSS, or any other technological measure adopted                                                 by plaintiffs that effectively controls access to plaintiffs'                                                 copyrighted works or effectively protects the plaintiffs' rights                                                 to control whether an end user can reproduce, manufacture,                                                 adapt, publicly perform and/or distribute unauthorized copies                                                 of their copyrighted works or portions thereof; or                                       (iii)    is marketed by defendants and/or others acting in concert with                                                 them with the knowledge of its use in circumventing, or in                                                 circumventing the protection afforded by, CSS, or any other                                                 technological measure adopted by plaintiffs that effectively                                                 controls access to the plaintiffs' copyrighted works or                                                 effectively protects the plaintiffs' rights to control whether an                                                 end user can reproduce, manufacture, adapt, publicly perform                                                 and/or distribute unauthorized copies of their copyrighted                                                 works or portions thereof.                    3.      Certain terms use in this order are defined as follows:                             (a)      "DVD" means digital versatile disc.                             (b)      "CSS" means the Contents Scramble System used to encrypt,                             scramble or otherwise protect the contents of certain DVDs from being                             copied.                             (c)      "DeCSS" means any computer program, file or device that may be                             used to decrypt or unscramble the contents of DVDs that are protected, or                             otherwise to circumvent the protection afforded, by CSS and that permits the                             copying of the contents or any portion thereof.                   4.       The preliminary injunction containted herein is effective immediately. Itscontinuation beyond 5 p.m. on January 24, 2000 is contingent upon plaintiffs filing with the Clerk,at or before that time, cash or a bond in the amount of $10,000 for the payment of such costs anddamages as may be incurred or suffered by any party who is found to have been wrongfully enjoinedor restrained.                             SO ORDERED.Dated: January 20, 2000Issued at: _5:40_ p.m.                                                                                   ___________[Signed]___________                                                                                                   Lewis A. Kaplan                                                                                         United States District Judge