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UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS, INC., )
5 PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION, )
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS, INC.,)
6 TRISTAR PICTURES, INC., COLUMBIA )
PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC., TIME )
7 WARNER ENTERTAINMENT CO., L.P., )
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., and )
8 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM )
CORPORATION, )
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Plaintiff(s), )
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vs. )
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ERIC CORLEY a/k/a "EMMANUEL )
12 GOLDSTEIN" and 2600 ENTERPRISES, )
INC.,, )
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Defendant(s). )
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16 CONTINUED DEPOSITION OF
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13 Motion Picture Association
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2 K E N N E T H A. J A C O B S E N, having
3 been previously sworn, resumed as a witness
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6 MR. HERNSTADT:
7 Q. Good morning. I'm Ed Hernstadt for
8 the Defendants in this case. I will be deposing
9 you today.
10 I take it that you have been deposed
11 before?
12 A. I'm not sure that I have been. I
13 can't remember ever being deposed.
14 Q. Really?
15 A. Yes.
16 Q. 25 years in the FBI and you never
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18 A. No, I don't think so.
19 Q. Have you testified at trial?
20 A. Yes.
21 Q. So you are aware of what's implicated
22 in testifying under oath and the seriousness of
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24 A. Yes.
25 Q. Let me ask you: During your career
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2 with the FBI, did you ever handle cases that
3 dealt with piracy or with some of the types of
4 things that you're responsible for now?
5 A. I don't recall ever being assigned to
6 a squad that worked copyright violations.
7 Q. But any kind of an overlap in terms of
8 your prior experience?
9 A. No.
10 Q. What kind of cases were you doing?
11 A. During my career, I worked fugitives;
12 I worked national security cases; I worked white
13 collar crime investigations; I was our in-house
14 legal advisor for a number of years; I worked
15 drug cases on the task force with the DEA.
16 I then became a supervisor of the
17 first drug squad in Los Angeles when the FBI had
18 and ran that program. I then became the
19 supervisor of our major case squad which would
20 have been high-jacking, extortions, fugitives,
21 kidnappings. Those types of violations.
22 I then became the supervisor of our
23 special operations group, which was a
24 surveillance group that supported Investigations.
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3 MR. COOPER: That's all.
4 Q. Yesterday you mentioned the names of
5 people at the Plaintiffs who dealt with piracy.
6 Let me ask you: Are there any people at each of
7 the Plaintiffs, of course, excluding Time Warner,
8 that deal with the non-proliferation of DeCSS?
9 MR. COOPER: Why don't you read back
10 that question?
11 (Record read.)
12 MR. COOPER: I just want to take us
13 back to the limitation on the answer that
14 was given yesterday. I think the witness
15 clarified that he was referring to people
16 other than the in-house litigators at each
17 of the studios who were involved in one way
18 or the other with this and the other DeCSS
19 litigations.
20 So are you asking a different question
21 than that?
22 MR. HERNSTADT: Yes.
23 MR. COOPER: In what way are you
24 asking; people who may be tangentially
25 involved?
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2 MR. HERNSTADT: No. People that he
3 works with other than the lawyers.
4 Q. Or people you have talked to other
5 than the lawyers who have anything to do with
6 DeCSS or the non-proliferation of DeCSS?
7 MR. COOPER: All such people at the
8 studios?
9 MR. HERNSTADT: Yes.
10 A. Any people that I have been involved
11 with in discussions on DeCSS have been within the
12 context of the attorney/client relationship.
13 Q. Can you be a little more clearer on
14 that?
15 MR. COOPER: I just want to
16 distinguish. I think what you are saying I
17 understand. He's entitled, even if a
18 conversation may be privileged as to a
19 substance, the fact of the conversation and
20 the persons with whom you may have had it
21 are fair areas of inquiry.
22 THE WITNESS: Okay.
23 MR. COOPER: So the question, as I
24 understand it, is who besides the lawyers at
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2 that you identified yesterday are persons
3 with whom you had communications at the
4 studios specifically regarding the efforts
5 to curtail the proliferation of DeCSS.
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7 MR. HERNSTADT: Yes.
8 A. You are asking me people who are not
9 involved as the lawyers representing the studios
10 in putting together this litigation?
11 MR. HERNSTADT: Let's go off the
12 record for a second.
13 (Discussion off the record.)
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15 Q. The names of the people that you spoke
16 to. I'm not asking about the substance of the
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18 A. Including the lawyers.
19 Q. Including the lawyers.
20 A. I've been involved in numerous
21 conference calls and I will try to remember to
22 the best of my ability the name of the lawyers
23 who have been involved in those calls.
24 Let me see. It does not include Time
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23 A. It would be Simon Barsky, Greg
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2 Occasionally Brad Hunt. And it is possible that
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5 Q. When did these calls take place?
6 A. Since I know, ever since the
7 litigation commenced.
8 Q. These are all since the litigation
9 commenced?
10 A. There were some discussions prior to
11 the commencement of litigation.
12 Q. With some or all the same people you
13 just mentioned?
14 A. Yes.
15 Q. Do you know if there is a joint
16 defense agreement in place?
17 A. I do not, no.
18 RQ MR. HERNSTADT: We would call for the
19 production of such agreement if there is
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21 MR. COOPER: I will take it under
22 advisement.
23 MR. HERNSTADT: Just to clarify this
24 point. It is the position of the Plaintiffs
25 in this case that if the MPAA is party to
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2 conversations, that does not destroy the
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4 MR. COOPER: That's correct.
5 MR. HERNSTADT: Okay.
6 Q. Mr. Jacobsen, yesterday -- I don't
7 want to hold you to this. I want to ask you
8 about this. You said piracy was the unauthorized
9 use of property owned by one of the MPAA
10 members. First of all, is that an accurate
11 description of what you said yesterday?
12 A. I don't think it is.
13 MR. COOPER: Neither do I.
14 Q. That was just my notes. Can you give
15 me a definition; the definition of "piracy" that
16 you used in your role as the head of anti-piracy?
17 MR. COOPER: Asked and answered. I
18 think really we are just now testing the
19 witness' memory.
20 MR. HERNSTADT: No. This is what I
21 wrote down. Obviously I got it wrong.
22 MR. COOPER: You have the transcript
23 from yesterday. It seems to me it is simple
24 enough to pick it up if you really want to
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2 MR. HERNSTADT: Fair enough. I do.
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5 THE WITNESS: Can you read back the
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7 MR. COOPER: You know what, in order
8 to try to save time, rather than going back
9 to the record and trying to figure out where
10 the witness' testimony was from yesterday on
11 the definition of "piracy", we have agreed
12 that the witness will give a working
13 definition for purposes of counsel to take
14 off for some additional questioning on any
15 piracy efforts.
16 A. I believe what I said yesterday, when
17 asked that question by Mr. Garbus, was that our
18 program encompassed multiple areas. And within
19 the rubric of the term "piracy," I would include
20 circumvention devices; I would include
21 unauthorized public performance; I would include
22 unauthorized retransmission; I would also include
23 the illegal manufacture, the illegal distribution
24 and the illegal sale of audio visual products
25 owned by my member companies.
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2 Q. Did you come up with that definition
3 of "piracy"?
4 MR. COOPER: He just did. Do you mean
5 is he the sole source of it from an
6 intellectual standpoint?
7 Q. Yes. Are you the person who devised
8 that general definition of "piracy" for the MPAA?
9 A. It is my definition of "piracy" for
10 the MPAA. It is not written down anywhere.
11 That's my definition. When you asked me what I
12 consider piracy for the MPAA, that's my
13 definition of "piracy".
14 Q. Does the MPAA have their own
15 definition of "piracy" apart from yours?
16 MR. COOPER: Calls for speculation.
17 MR. HERNSTADT: If he knows. I'm not
18 asking him to speculate. I'm asking him to
19 answer a question if he knows it.
20 MR. COOPER: I understand. This
21 witness is here as the person most
22 knowledgeable on the topics we identified.
23 He is able to testify from that knowledge.
24 I think he has given you his own
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2 not a written policy articulating the answer
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4 MR. HERNSTADT: He didn't. He said
5 this definition is not written down. It is
6 his definition. What I'm asking is, Is
7 there a preexisting, is there some written
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9 MR. COOPER: Written down?
10 MR. HERNSTADT: Written down for the
11 MPA or the MPAA.
12 A. Use of the term "piracy" is not a
13 legal term. What we are talking about when we
14 quote, discuss "piracy," is basically theft of
15 our member company product or violations of
16 statutes created by either state or federal
17 governments or international statutes which
18 protect the intellectual property of our members.
19 So, no, no one has ever sat down to my
20 knowledge and put together, these will be the
21 only things that will be included in piracy
22 because it is an ever changing world.
23 Q. Let me step back for a second. Is
24 there a person or persons you deal with at the
25 DVD CCA about piracy or proliferation of DeCSS?
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2 MR. COOPER: I believe that's asked
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4 A. I don't personally.
5 Q. Do you work with anyone else at the
6 MPA or MPAA to determine what you include within
7 the rubric of piracy?
8 MR. COOPER: I think that you are
9 giving the rubric of piracy a more formal
10 meaning that it has in fact, based on the
11 witness' testimony.
12 MR. HERNSTADT: I mean it only in the
13 sense that the witness has testified about
14 it, which is that it is his personal
15 definition and he looks to various sources
16 for that personal definition. It is not
17 written down.
18 I understand it to be an informal
19 working definition for him. Within that, I
20 want to know if he talks to other people
21 about it in order to determine what's within
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23 MR. COOPER: If you allow me to finish
24 my comment.
25 He's testified about everybody who
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2 works for him and I believe virtually
3 everybody who works with him. Given his job
4 responsibilities, I'm not sure what he can
5 do beyond repeating his answers on those
6 questions from yesterday, which is to
7 reidentify all the people who --
8 MR. HERNSTADT: I actually have not
9 asked him to identify people yet.
10 Q. Let me rephrase the question. Maybe
11 this will make it easier.
12 When you developed this working
13 definition of "piracy," did you do it by yourself
14 or did you do it in conjunction with discussions
15 with other people?
16 A. The working definition of "piracy" is
17 meaningless in my job.
18 Q. Why is that?
19 A. Because. What I'm hired to do is to
20 construct strategies -- and implement them --
21 that protect my member companies' product.
22 "Piracy" is just the term somebody at some point
23 in time decided to apply to the illegal theft of
24 our product.
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2 "piracy." What I try to do is look at what
3 illegal actions are happening that are stealing
4 my member companies' products, and device
5 strategies to address them. It is not done under
6 a definitional term of piracy. It is done on a
7 situational-by-situational basis.
8 Q. Yesterday Mr. Garbus asked you a
9 number of questions about what was piracy and
10 what was not piracy. One question I don't think
11 we ever got an answer on is: Is it the position
12 of the MPAA that it is piracy to make fair use of
13 copyrighted materials on a video cassette?
14 MR. COOPER: The question was asked --
15 A. I answered that.
16 MR. COOPER: The question was asked
17 and answered. To the extent that you didn't
18 get an answer, it would have been because
19 the formulation was such that it received
20 from me an objection on attorney/client
21 privilege and a variety of other grounds,
22 including that it called for a legal
23 conclusion and was beyond the ambit of this
24 witness' scope of testimony.
25 So I really don't think it is
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2 productive to go back through that whole
3 area. We did spend a significant amount of
4 time yesterday on it.
5 MR. HERNSTADT: Thank you. I
6 disagree. The witness in answering that
7 question introduced a number of factors that
8 were not part of the question.
9 Q. What is your understanding,
10 Mr. Jacobsen, of "fair use," if you have one?
11 MR. COOPER: I simply cut off the
12 questioning altogether in this area because
13 I really do believe we are going right back
14 to where we were yesterday.
15 Give me some sense of why you want
16 this witness' legal interpretation of that
17 legal term?
18 MR. HERNSTADT: I didn't ask for a
19 legal interpretation. I asked for his
20 understanding, if he has one. If he doesn't
21 have one, he doesn't have one.
22 I understand he is not here as a
23 lawyer. He is here as the chief of
24 anti-piracy efforts for the MPAA.
25 MR. COOPER: He described what those
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3 MR. HERNSTADT: Right.
4 MR. COOPER: For foundation purposes
5 and probably a vain effort to save some
6 time, I'm going to allow the witness to give
7 you his layman's understanding of the term,
8 but I will tell you we are not going to get
9 into a lengthy legal discussion today.
10 MR. HERNSTADT: I have one question on
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12 MR. COOPER: Go ahead.
13 A. I generally understand that within the
14 realm of copyright, there is something called
15 "fair use." And even though someone may have a
16 copyright to a particular piece of intellectual
17 property, if the usage that is made of a portion
18 of that property is for purposes of teaching,
19 let's say, purposes of library maintenance, let's
20 say, purposes of possibly scientific research,
21 purposes of possibly fair comment in a newspaper,
22 and it is done within the rubric of what the
23 courts have said constitutes "fair use" of that
24 product, you may not have a copyright violation.
25 Q. My question then is: Is it the MPAA's
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3 on a video cassette in the way that you have just
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5 MR. COOPER: It is an incomplete
6 hypothetical. You are asking a question
7 without sufficient information to be able to
8 answer the question given what the witness
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10 Q. Mr. Jacobsen, can you answer the
11 question?
12 A. I can tell you "piracy" is not a legal
13 term. It is a meaningless term in your question
14 to my understanding. So I cannot answer your
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16 Q. Let me rephrase that.
17 Is it the MPAA's position that it is
18 not permissible for persons to make use of
19 copyrighted material on a video cassette in the
20 manner in which you just described?
21 A. It is --
22 MR. COOPER: It is beyond the witness'
23 area of testimony. Calls for a legal
24 conclusion. Incomplete hypothetical.
25 Q. Can you answer that question?
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2 A. I can tell you only that the
3 determination of "fair use" is something that has
4 to be described or made by lawyers. And if, in
5 fact, fair use is applicable, then the use of the
6 product within that limited scope of fair use is
7 not illegal, to my understanding.
8 Q. You device strategies for protecting
9 the intellectual property of the members of the
10 MPAA; is that correct?
11 A. That's correct.
12 Q. Have you devised a strategy that seeks
13 to prevent persons from using portions of
14 copyrighted materials on videocassettes in the
15 manner in which you described when you discussed
16 fair use?
17 MR. COOPER: Ambiguous.
18 Q. You can answer the question.
19 A. My understanding of your question
20 presupposes the finding of fair use. If there
21 has been a finding of fair use, we do not have a
22 strategy to take action against those people for
23 use of the product.
24 Q. As chief of anti-piracy, you device
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2 members, the intellectual property of your
3 members; what formats is this intellectual
4 property on when it goes to the public?
5 A. Basically, MPAA deals with audiovisual
6 products. Consequently, it could start with
7 preproduction items which are either on film or
8 on tape. After it has been, after the theatrical
9 showing, normally there is a release at some
10 point in time of the product on videocassette,
11 videocassette disk or DVD.
12 Now, in addition, my members own
13 product which is shown on cable and satellite and
14 on TV. So we have an interest in the actual bits
15 and bytes that are transmitted, or the analog
16 transmission of that data as it comes from the
17 place it is being sent from to the ultimate
18 receiver and what happens to it after that. So
19 we have an interest with anything that has to do
20 with that audiovisual product.
21 Q. Do you have responsibility for CDs or
22 cassette tapes of the soundtracks of films?
23 A. If you are talking about the CD that
24 is created separate from the actual movie?
25 Q. Yes.
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2 A. No.
3 Q. Do you know what organization is
4 responsible for anti-piracy efforts with respect
5 to CD soundtracks?
6 A. There is a trade association known as
7 MIAA, and they are responsible for the products
8 of their member companies.
9 Q. With respect to these various formats
10 and media that you just described, what
11 percentage of your resources are devoted to each
12 of these different formats?
13 A. The majority of the resources would be
14 devoted to the product after -- well, it is hard
15 to make that determination. We are normally
16 looking at product that has been reduced from the
17 film or transferred the film into some type of
18 hard copy format. But often that is before our
19 members have actually released it.
20 So it is a videocassette or a VCD or
21 perhaps a DVD that has been illegally created by
22 some third-party without authority from our
23 member companies.
24 Q. What is a VCD?
25 A. Videocassette disk.
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2 Q. What is that?
3 A. It is a disk-like a compact disk. It
4 holds, I don't know, maybe roughly 600 megs.. It
5 is not a popular format in the United States. It
6 is a popular format over in Asia, and it is an
7 inferior mpeg format to DVD.
8 Q. When you say "inferior," you mean the
9 quality?
10 A. The quality is inferior to what DVD
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12 Q. Both video and audio?
13 A. I don't know about the audio because
14 I'm not an expert. I'm not an expert on the
15 other either, but I'm not conversant with audio
16 compressions.
17 Q. What are DVDs played on?
18 A. On a CD. They can also be played on a
19 DVD player.
20 Q. Can they be played on a CD player on a
21 computer?
22 A. Yes, they could be.
23 Q. With a VCD driver? Do you need a
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25 A. I don't know the answer.
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2 Q. Typically, if you can answer this
3 question, how are these hard copies made prior to
4 the release of the MPAA member of the DVD or VCD
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6 A. You are talking about how is the
7 illegal product created?
8 Q. Yes.
9 A. Normally, there can be several
10 sources. But the criminal who is violating the
11 law will locate a source for the audiovisual
12 product. It can be a camcording that was done
13 surreptitiously in a theater. It can be a stolen
14 pre-released cassette. It can be a screener
15 which has been pre-released prior to the release
16 in video format or DVD format. Anyway, any kind
17 of source like that.
18 Then depending upon the format that
19 they are going to convert that into, depends upon
20 the machinery that they need to finish the job.
21 Q. Roughly what percentage of stolen
22 goods does what you just described constitute?
23 A. What percentage of what?
24 Q. Of the stolen goods you devote your
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3 MR. COOPER: I want to make sure we
4 are all clear. I know where you are going
5 with this, but I want to make sure everybody
6 is using terms the same way.
7 I think the witness has been
8 testifying about the creation of hard goods
9 that are pirated because they are created by
10 people who don't have the right to
11 distribute them.
12 MR. HERNSTADT: Right.
13 MR. COOPER: Are you asking what
14 percentage of the hard goods the MPAA goes
15 after that have been created in the fashion
16 he just described?
17 MR. HERNSTADT: That's exactly what
18 I'm asking.
19 Q. You just described hard goods created
20 by persons who get a hold of the material by
21 camcording it from the theater or stealing a
22 pre-released tape or somehow acquiring it and
23 then making VCD's, videocassettes or DVDs prior
24 to the release by the MPAA member of their own
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2 The question is: What percentage of
3 the pirated goods, the hard goods that you go
4 after, does this type of pirated goods
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6 MR. COOPER: You are distinguishing
7 that from those where someone may take an
8 existing VCD and copy it?
9 MR. HERNSTADT: For example. That was
10 going to be my next question of him.
11 Q. If you want, I will do it the other
12 way around and ask you what other type of pirated
13 goods you spend your time looking for.
14 A. Other types of pirated goods would be
15 situations where someone actually takes a
16 legitimate cassettes and makes copies as opposed
17 to a purloined cassette or a screener.
18 Q. Do you find that in all the above
19 formats; VCD, videocassette and DVD?
20 A. I'm trying to remember if we have been
21 able to determine whether any DVDs have actually
22 been made from original released DVDs, and I
23 don't know the answer. Clearly VCD's are used
24 and so are videocassettes.
25 I'm not sure that we can certify or
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4 Q. When you say "a legitimate DVD," you
5 mean a DVD that was manufactured and sold --
6 A. That's correct. A DVD that was
7 manufactured by one of other members company and
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9 Q. How would you tell if a copy DVD was
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18 A. I did not.
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7 A. It is overwhelming, in the optical
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4 Q. Optical disk being VCD?
5 A. VCD and DVD.
6 Q. Is there a breakdown between VCD and
7 DVD?
8 A. Yes. Overwhelmingly VCD.
9 Q. Do you have documents that reflect the
10 breakdowns I have been asking you about?
11 A. I don't recall if we break it out. We
12 have documents which would reflect statistics on
13 the numbers that are seized on an annual basis
14 and a quarterly basis, I believe. But I don't
15 remember if we break out DVDs out of VCDs or
16 not. I just know from our operations that it is
17 predominantly VCD.
18 RQ MR. HERNSTADT: I would call for the
19 production of the annual and quarterly
20 breakdowns as well as any documents that may
21 exist that show a breakdown between VCD and
22 DVD.
23 By that I mean memos or other internal
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3 MR. COOPER: Noted. For
4 clarification, you asked for the annual and
5 quarterly breakdowns between those that the
6 witness has testified to?
7 MR. HERNSTADT: Right.
8 MR. COOPER: To the extent they
9 exist. I take it you are looking for
10 documents sufficient to show, to the extent
11 they exist, rather than every document that
12 might contain some reference to them?
13 MR. HERNSTADT: That would be correct.
14 MR. COOPER: Thank you.
15 MR. HERNSTADT: In particular,
16 Mr. Jacobsen testified he believes there are
17 annual and quarterly breakdowns. That I
18 would want.
19 MR. COOPER: I understood that
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21 I want to make sure we are not on a
22 hunt for everything that would make an
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24 (Whereupon, a short recess was taken
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3 Q. To the best of your knowledge, what
4 would the total percentage of DVD pirated goods
5 be out of all the products we have been talking
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7 MR. COOPER: Talking about --
8 MR. HERNSTADT: VCD, videocassette and
9 DVD.
10 MR. COOPER: To formats in which they
11 are sold?
12 MR. HERNSTADT: Yes. Exactly.
13 A. I probably have to get out a pencil
14 and paper and work out the percentages. But it
15 is low. Let me see. I'm going to say in the
16 neighborhood of between one and two percent.
17 Q. Of that one to two percent, would you
18 say more than 75 percent is pre-released?
19 A. Of the one or two percent of the
20 DVDs?
21 Q. Right.
22 A. I don't know.
23 Q. Are there any documents that would
24 show that with that kind of detail?
25 A. Not that I'm aware of.
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2 Q. Is there anyone who would know?
3 A. Not that would have created or have
4 that kind of statistic available.
5 Q. Do you work with the IIPA?
6 A. IIPA? Yes.
7 Q. I would like to ask you to take a look
8 at Exhibit 5, it is the declaration of Frank
9 Stevenson. If you can look at Paragraph 23. In
10 Paragraph 23 Mr. Stevenson says, "Bit-for-bit
11 copying, which precisely duplicates the content
12 of one DVD to another, results in a fully-
13 playable product."
14 If you just take a moment to review
15 this paragraph, I would like to know if what is
16 set forth in this paragraph is true.
17 MR. COOPER: Take time to read the
18 entirety of the paragraph.
19 (Witness reviewing document.)
20 A. I don't know, I don't have any
21 technical knowledge to know whether what he
22 claims is true or not about bit-for-bit copying.
23 And two, I don't know about the IIPA 1990 report
24 on Hong Kong. I've never seen it. So I don't
25 know whether this is accurate or not.
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2 Q. If you look at the back of the report
3 that attaches Exhibit B, and if you look at
4 Page 5 of the report and the numbers in the
5 bottom right-hand corner, there is a section on
6 motion pictures.
7 A. Uh-huh.
8 Q. The paragraphs that I think are
9 relevant to the videocassette questions are on
10 the top of Page 6. But feel free to look at that
11 whole section if you want. The first part is VCD
12 and then they go to DVD.
13 MR. COOPER: After he has reviewed the
14 section, what would be the question?
15 MR. HERNSTADT: The question would be
16 is he familiar with this material.
17 MR. COOPER: Document you mean?
18 MR. HERNSTADT: Either the report; if
19 he's not familiar with the report, which
20 sounds likely that he is not, whether he is
21 familiar with the contents of the material
22 through some other source.
23 MR. COOPER: Let's take it a step at a
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25 Take a look at the entire report so
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3 which is: Have you ever seen this report
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5 A. I can tell you from what I've looked
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7 MR. COOPER: Focusing on the last
8 paragraph of Page 5 leading on to the top of
9 Page 6 --
10 MR. HERNSTADT: It is actually the
11 first full paragraph on Page 6.
12 MR. COOPER: Okay. You want him to
13 tell you whether he is familiar from some
14 other source with the material set forth in
15 that paragraph?
16 MR. HERNSTADT: That's correct.
17 (Witness reviewing document.)
18 A. I have never seen this data anywhere
19 else.
20 Q. And no one has ever told you?
21 A. That's correct.
22 Q. Do you receive the IIPA reports on
23 enforcement of intellectual property rights
24 throughout the world?
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2 A. I presume that I will. In the job
3 that I held prior to April, I would not have
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2 A. Yes. The MPAA is the U.S. chartered
3 trade association; the MPA is the international
4 arm of the MPAA.
5 Q. Up until April 1st, were you an
6 employee of the MPAA?
7 A. Well, I've never quite been able to
8 figure that out to be perfectly candid. But yes,
9 I guess I was an employee of the MPAA.
10 Q. Did your paycheck change at all?
11 A. I never even looked. My business
12 cards changed. The paycheck comes from the same
13 company. I honestly don't understand who I'm
14 employed by. I think it is MPAA, but I'm not
15 sure.
16 Q. Well, I ask because your card says
17 MPA.
18 A. Right. It used to say MPAA.
19 Q. There is an overlap but there is
20 different people.
21 I note that on the current MPA
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2 BY MR. HERNSTADT:
3 Q. Yesterday we talked about the cease
4 and desist letters that went out and we asked
5 that all the letters be produced. To clarify one
6 thing, a box was delivered yesterday afternoon
7 that contained a number of responses.
8 MR. COOPER: Okay. I appreciate that
9 clarification.
10 MR. HERNSTADT: That was the
11 confusion. We had not gotten it as of the
12 time of the deposition or the discussion
13 yesterday, but it did arrive yesterday
14 afternoon.
15 Q. Is there a master list of every letter
16 that went out and of every response that came in?
17 A. You're asking me in regards only to
18 DeCSS from the very first one we sent out to the
19 last one?
20 Q. Yes.
21 A. I don't know if a master list of all
22 of them exists.
23 Q. How much of your time have you spent
24 on the cease and desist letters?
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3 Q. The cease and desist letters as
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11 information through counsel to make the
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13 Q. You said Mr. Litvack wrote the
14 letters, but was he in charge of that entire
15 protocol?
16 A. Yes.
17 Q. Do you know if he spent personally a
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11 MR. HERNSTADT: I guess this part of
12 the transcript should be confidential.
13 MR. COOPER: Actually all of the
14 transcript starting yesterday is
15 confidential. I suppose we should have
16 noted that at the beginning.
17 You can pick up the commentary with
18 respect to that determination from the
19 beginning of yesterday's transcript.
20 MR. HERNSTADT: You are now
21 designating the entire transcript
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23 MR. COOPER: That's what we did
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2 certain portions.
3 MR. COOPER: No. We designated all of
4 it, unless otherwise designated.
5 MR. HERNSTADT: I will take a look at
6 it. I didn't understand that to be the
7 case.
8 MR. COOPER: Lest there be any doubt,
9 let me make it clear on the record that we
10 have designated all of the transcript
11 confidential subject to requests by the
12 Defendants for de-designation of any
13 portions they believe do not deserve
14 confidential treatment.
15 There is one section I believe
16 yesterday that we also designated highly
17 confidential pursuant to the Protective
18 Order. But the record should reflect what
19 portion that was.
20 MR. HERNSTADT: The Defendants object
21 to that designation, and on the record
22 request that the entire transcript be
23 de-designated, or that the Defendants do
24 what the Protective Order contemplates which
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2 the transcript to designate those sections
3 that should be confidential.
4 It is a gross over-designation to
5 start by designating the entire transcript
6 by confidential.
7 MR. COOPER: You and I disagree.
8 MR. HERNSTADT: It is inappropriate
9 and it is not what is called for in the
10 Protective Order, which says you are
11 supposed to designate portions at the time
12 or you have a period of time after receiving
13 a transcript to designate those portions.
14 It does not say you designate the entire
15 thing and then it is our burden to tell you
16 which portions should be undesignated.
17 Since you are putting that burden on
18 us, I, on the record, state that the
19 Defendants believe that no part of this
20 transcript is confidential and that,
21 therefore, we request that we shift the
22 burden back to you to designate those
23 portions of the transcript which you think
24 are confidential.
25 MR. COOPER: As I said, we disagree.
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2 I put our position on the record yesterday.
3 If it requires amplification, we will do it
4 in due course.
5 Q. Documents M 130 to M 392 are a number
6 of cease and desist letters.
7 MR. COOPER: Can I have those numbers
8 again?
9 MR. HERNSTADT: 130 to 392.
10 MR. COOPER: Thank you.
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18 you a handful, let's say 321 to 392. I note that
19 these letters are unsigned. My question to you
20 is: Do you know if they were sent?
21 A. Do I know for a fact that they were
22 sent?
23 Q. Yes.
24 A. No.
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2 (Whereupon, a recess was taken from
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4 RQ MR. HERNSTADT: On the record, the
5 Defendants have requested that the
6 Plaintiffs review their records and in some
7 manner or form present us with an answer as
8 to whether the letters, the cease and desist
9 letters at documents 130 through 392 were,
10 in fact, sent out.
11 MR. COOPER: I understand the request
12 and appreciate the Defendant's willingness
13 to try to avoid unnecessary discovery.
14 I'm not sure what information we will
15 be able to provide from the MPAA records on
16 this topic. But we will investigate it and
17 endeavor to reach some kind of mutually
18 acceptable understanding with respect to
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3 A. I don't know if such a list exists.
4 RQ MR. HERNSTADT: As part of the
5 confirmation that the letters were sent, we
6 would also request production of any kind of
7 a master list that would set forth the
8 letters that were sent, whether they were
9 sent, whether there was response.
10 I would assume that any production
11 includes those responses, but I will ask for
12 them just in case.
13 MR. COOPER: So noted.
14 MR. HERNSTADT: Thank you.
15 Q. Mr. Jacobsen, have you ever heard of a
16 format called DivX?
17 A. I think we discussed it yesterday
18 briefly. I'm aware of two things which are
19 called DivX and format. You are interested in
20 the software?
21 Q. I'm talking about the recent DivX.
22 A. Yes, I am generally aware that there
23 is a software called DivX which is available on
24 the Internet.
25 Q. Are you aware of what it does?
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2 A. Again, with the caveat I'm not a
3 technical person. My general understanding is
4 that it can be used to compress a DVD that has
5 been downloaded to a hard drive, so it can then
6 be played in a more playable format and copied in
7 a manner which does not create or does not need
8 multiple disks or multiple CDs.
9 Q. For purposes of that last question and
10 the future question, the question I'm about to
11 ask you, I'm not asking you as a technical
12 person. I'm asking you with respect to anti-
13 piracy.
14 MR. HERNSTADT: I want to make that
15 clear because I understand he is being
16 produced as an anti-piracy witness not a
17 technical witness.
18 Q. Do you know if the DVD movie that is
19 being compressed by DivX has to be decrypted?
20 A. My understanding is that it does have
21 to be decrypted.
22 Q. Do you know what the compression ratio
23 is?
24 A. I don't.
25 Q. Approximate?
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2 A. I am informed that it is an mpeg four
3 compression, but I don't know what that is.
4 Q. I think you were asked this
5 yesterday. Have you ever viewed a movie that has
6 been compressed with DivX?
7 A. I believe I have seen one exhibition,
8 very short, of a DivX compressed movie.
9 Q. Did it have the same quality as a DVD
10 movie?
11 A. No.
12 Q. Would a movie that is compressed with
13 DivX be sold on a VCD?
14 A. It could be.
15 Q. Are you aware of any VCDs having been
16 made using the DivX compression?
17 A. I have no information about any
18 specific instances where VCDs have been created
19 using the DivX compression technology.
20 Q. We looked at yesterday at Defendant's
21 Exhibit 12, this article in Fast Forward.
22 MR. HERNSTADT: I would like to mark
23 as Exhibit 15 an article that appears in
24 MSBC Home, the CNBC and the Wall Street
25 Journal entitled "Movie Pirates Hitting
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2 Prime Time."
3 (Defendant's Exhibit 15, MSBC website
4 article "Movie Pirates Hitting Prime Time,"
5 marked for identification, as of this date.)
6 MR. COOPER: What is the first
7 question on this one?
8 Q. The first question is: Have you ever
9 seen this article?
10 MR. COOPER: Take your time.
11 (Witness reviewing document.)
12 A. I have seen this article.
13 Q. In fact, you are quoted in this
14 article; is that correct?
15 A. Yes. Misquoted.
16 MR. HERNSTADT: Off the record.
17 (Discussion off the record.)
18 BY MR. HERNSTADT:
19 Q. You say you are misquoted; what is the
20 misquote?
21 A. He said that most of the money is
22 spent on analog videotape copies, and I never
23 said that. That was a conclusion he drew from
24 the interview.
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2 quotes you as saying, or paraphrases you as
3 saying, "Traditional forms of piracy cost the
4 industry $2.5 billion. Most of that is spent on
5 analog videotape copies where film quality
6 obviously suffers."
7 My first question is: Is it true that
8 traditional forms of piracy cost the industry
9 $2.5 billion?
10 A. It is true that all forms of piracy we
11 estimate cost the industry 2.5 billion.
12 "Traditional," again, is not what I said.
13 Q. Is there such a thing as traditional
14 forms of piracy? What is the distinction being
15 made there?
16 A. I would not have made that
17 distinction, that's why I know I didn't say it.
18 Q. When you say cost the industry
19 $2.5 billion, what do you mean?
20 A. That is the estimate in lost revenues
21 that we make from unauthorized sales of our
22 audiovisual product.
23 Q. Who makes that estimate?
24 A. It is made, I would have to say, by
25 Mr. Valenti based on information that he
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3 Q. Do you have any role in determining
4 the estimated amount of lost sales based on
5 piracy?
6 A. I have not in the past had a role in
7 making the determination.
8 Q. And in the future will you?
9 A. I would hope that I would, yes.
10 Q. What role do you hope to have in
11 making that determination?
12 A. The role of providing the statistical
13 information necessary to draw whatever
14 conclusions are going to be drawn.
15 Q. What statistical information will you
16 provide?
17 A. I will provide our estimate of the
18 number of illegal copies that have been sold or
19 exchanged or bartered.
20 I will provide information about
21 whether or not they were being sold in countries
22 where they were pre-theatrical or whether the
23 movies were still in theatrical release.
24 Provide information extrapolating the
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2 amount of goods that we do not find, or that the
3 police do not find, and try to come up with a
4 number of how much illegal copies are actually
5 being disseminated, sold, traded, bartered,
6 whatever.
7 Q. How is that information relevant to
8 the estimated loss?
9 A. It is relevant to the estimated loss
10 if you make the argument that the purchase or
11 transfer of an illegal copy may affect theater
12 ticket sales or may affect ultimate rental
13 revenue or may affect ultimate sale of the actual
14 item itself.
15 Q. Do you know the relationship between
16 the number of copies and the impact on theater
17 sales, theater ticket sales or sales of
18 authorized hard copies of member movies?
19 MR. COOPER: Objection to form.
20 A. I'm not sure I understand the
21 question, but if I do, I think I already told you
22 I have not been involved in this process in the
23 past. So if I understand your question, the
24 answer is no.
25 Q. Do you know who would I ask about that
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3 MR. COOPER: You are talking about the
4 relative interaction between various
5 statistics in coming up with the
6 $2.5 billion number?
7 MR. HERNSTADT: Basically how that
8 number is arrived at. What weight is given.
9 I understand from what Mr. Jacobsen
10 has said, there is estimated total number of
11 copies that are out there. There are
12 estimates that are extrapolated on the
13 number of copies that are actually seized.
14 There are estimates of how this impacts
15 theater sales, how this impacts sales of
16 hard copies. What I --
17 Q. Please correct me.
18 MR. COOPER: That's fine. Can you
19 answer the question generally speaking?
20 A. Actually, that is not what I said. I
21 said if I were involved in the process in the
22 future, that's what I would expect to do.
23 MR. COOPER: That's fair.
24 Q. Do you know who is doing that today?
25 A. I don't.
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2 Q. You said Mr. Valenti?
3 A. Mr. Valenti is usually the person who
4 talks about the loss numbers, so I'm assuming.
5 MR. COOPER: Don't assume.
6 A. I don't assume.
7 MR. COOPER: Testify to knowledge. He
8 is not asking for assumptions. He is
9 specifically not.
10 Q. Let me ask you, the prior quote, "Do I
11 feel there is a huge river damming up? Yes.
12 Yes, we see it coming. We are doing everything
13 we can to deal with it." Is that an accurate
14 quote?
15 A. No. I never talked about a river
16 damming up.
17 Q. What did you actually say?
18 A. We had a wide-ranging interview about
19 the Internet and whether or not it created
20 current problems for us, and whether or not we
21 suspected it would create future problems for us.
22 Q. Can you tell me what you said about
23 both of those areas?
24 A. Yes. I can tell you that we discussed
25 generally how our member company product is
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2 illegally sold or transferred on the Internet. I
3 can tell you that we generally talked about the
4 four areas of the Internet which concern us,
5 which would be: circumvention devices which are
6 transferred via the Internet; hard good sales via
7 the Internet; downloadable media on the Internet;
8 and it would be streaming using the Internet.
9 And although I don't remember how
10 specific we were in this particular interview,
11 I'm sure we discussed what the problem looked
12 like today and whether we expected that it would
13 increase in the future.
14 Q. With respect to circumvention devices
15 currently available on the Internet, what are
16 they?
17 A. DeCSS in terms of a software utility.
18 We find on the Internet -- you are talking about
19 not what I would have discussed in terms of this
20 article, but what I'm --
21 Q. Now I'm asking you more broadly.
22 A. Thank you. We look for unauthorized
23 Smart Cards which are sold via the Internet which
24 are used to illegally capture satellite
25 transmission. And we look for what are called
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2 black boxes, which are basically a device that is
3 sold to defeat encryption or protection measures
4 on cable TV to steal signals.
5 Q. Are there other utilities on the
6 Internet that you look for besides DeCSS?
7 A. We would look for other utilities
8 located that in effect defeats the technological
9 measure that our industry has put on its
10 product.
11 I am not aware of the fact that we are
12 addressing anything right now besides DeCSS in
13 regards to a software utility.
14 Q. Are you aware of the existence of any
15 others?
16 A. No.
17 Q. For example, DODsripper or
18 PowerRipper.
19 A. I heard the term "ripper" before, but
20 I myself do not know whether these are
21 circumvention devices, whether they defeat the
22 encryption placed on DVDs or any other kind of
23 technological measure.
24 Q. For purposes of your job as
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2 A. CSS?
3 Q. Yes.
4 A. Generally.
5 Q. What is your general understanding of
6 what CSS does?
7 A. My general understanding is that there
8 is an encryption placed in the bit stream that is
9 on the disk. My general understanding is that
10 there is a series of keys that has been licensed
11 to people who make DVD players.
12 And that the system requires a key
13 exchange when the disk is placed into the player
14 so that it recognizes the disk and it recognizes
15 the player; they match. And then there is an
16 authorized -- I mean, the signal is played. It
17 is authorized to be played.
18 Q. Did you mention a disk locking
19 component?
20 A. I did not.
21 Q. Do you understand there is a disk
22 locking component to CSS?
23 MR. COOPER: Ambiguous. I don't know
24 what that means.
25 A. I don't know what it means either.
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2 Q. Are you aware of a security provision
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4 A. I don't know what disk locking is.
5 Q. Turning back to Exhibit 15. You are
6 familiar with this article?
7 A. I have read the article, yes,
8 previously.
9 Q. This article nowhere mentions DeCSS;
10 is that correct?
11 MR. COOPER: The article speaks for
12 itself. If you want us to take a look
13 through it and give you a specific response,
14 I suppose we can go through the exercise.
15 If you are looking at the same one I am.
16 MR. HERNSTADT: Yes.
17 MR. COOPER: I object to the question
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19 have now turned to the first page of the
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21 A. It does mention DeCSS.
22 Q. Where is that?
23 MR. COOPER: Bottom of the first
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5 Q. My question is really that it does not
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8 MR. COOPER: The document speaks for
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10 Q. As counsel says, the document speaks
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12 MR. HERNSTADT: I would like to mark
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14 (Defendant's Exhibit 16, ZD Net News
15 website article "Inside the Online Movie
16 Underground," marked for identification, as
17 of this date.)
18 Q. First question is: Have you ever seen
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20 A. Which one are we looking at?
21 Q. Defendant's Exhibit 16, which I will
22 define as an article entitled "Inside the Online
23 Movie Underground" that comes from ZD Net News.
24 The subtitle of that is "Technology News Now."
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7 A. I understand there is a Microsoft ASF
8 format, but I know nothing else about it.
9 Q. Without getting into the technical
10 merits, is that format a concern of your
11 organization in terms of piracy?
12 A. I don't know what it does.
13 MR. HERNSTADT: I would like to mark
14 as Defendant's Exhibit 17 an article
15 entitled "Piracy Intrigue in Palika Bazaar:
16 Hollywood Goes Toe-To-Toe With India's Video
17 Counterfeiters."
18 This is an article on the on-line
19 version of MSBC and it is dated May 11th.
20 (Defendant's Exhibit 17, MSNBC website
21 article "Piracy Intrigue in Palika Bazaar:
22 Hollywood Goes Toe-To-Toe With India's Video
23 Counterfeiters," marked for identification,
24 as of this date.)
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6 A. If I said that, I may not have been
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8 say that it can be given the -- well, let me
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2 Q. Do you know what region coding is?
3 A. Generally.
4 Q. Can you describe it, please, what your
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6 A. My understanding is the world has been
7 divided into -- I don't recall if it is five or
8 six regions. Six.
9 Q. Seven?
10 A. Seven regions, which -- I'm sorry.
11 Divided into seven regions. When the DVDs are
12 manufactured, they are manufactured for play in
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17 Q. Your testimony a few minutes ago about
18 the resale may be unauthorized if a disk is
19 released for sale in one country but it is then
20 acquired and resold in a different country, is
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23 A. Sometimes.
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2 MPAA member to distribute movies?
3 MR. COOPER: I think it is confusing
4 as asked. He included in his description of
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8 In addition to which, sometimes the
9 member companies are licensors and sometimes
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12 MR. HERNSTADT: It is. Let me start
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14 Q. In region coding you said the DVDs are
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17 A. I think I said in one or more.
18 Q. One or more of the seven regions.
19 Do you know whether the decision of
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5 Do you know why DVDs are manufactured
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7 A. Generally, my understanding is to
8 protect release windows.
9 Q. Can you expand on that answer? What
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11 A. Well, the way the member companies
12 release their movies, they do not release
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14 As an example, you may have a movie
15 that is released in the United States. That
16 movie has a theatrical run. That movie may then
17 be released into cable, Pay-Per-View. That movie
18 may then be converted into a videocassette and/or
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20 being played in another part of the world.
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7 Q. Are DVDs and videocassettes released
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9 A. Sometimes.
10 Q. Is there any regional restriction on
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13 Q. What is that?
14 A. The format that it's played in.
15 Basically if my memory serves me correctly, there
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12 A. It is not my definition of a website.
13 Maybe my definition of a website might be
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16 Q. Neither am I. Why don't you give me
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18 A. When I think of a website, I think of
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20 This could be just a direct
21 conversation between you and I on the Internet.
22 There may be no web page. It could just be the
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3 A. I'm not sure I understand the
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5 Q. We identified a couple of different
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9 A. Actually, I guess we have. We have
10 found web pages that are devoted to the transfer
11 of our media.
12 Q. How many web pages have you found?
13 A. I don't know.
14 Q. Would it be more than 50?
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12 MR. COOPER: You are talking about
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15 MR. HERNSTADT: No, not for streaming
16 purposes. For uploading and downloading
17 purposes. Mr. Jacobsen said there is where
18 the audiovisual product is compressed and
19 then uploaded on to the net and then someone
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22 A. I don't understand the technology
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2 Q. I guess what I'm asking for is the
3 name of the compression. Like DivX, I take it
4 that would be one of them. DivX compression
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6 A. DivX could be one of them, yes.
7 Q. Do you know any other?
8 A. It started, as I recall, with VIVO,
9 which is probably no longer used. You asked me
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11 compression technology created by Microsoft that
12 might be used. I'm sure there are others. I
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15 Q. In this category or this area of
16 Internet problems for the MPAA members, I take it
17 that the copyrighted material is being
18 transmitted via modem or T1 line or T3 line?
19 A. It would be across the Internet.
20 Q. By whatever --
21 A. Exactly.
22 Q. -- access they are using?
23 A. (Witness nodding.)
24 Q. The last one is streaming. What is
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2 A. Streaming is a, it can be several
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7 receivers actually have the ability to just watch
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9 Q. Are entire movies streamed or is it
10 portions of movies that are streamed?
11 A. I don't know that we have -- I think
12 the answer is entire movies can be. But the
13 source in that instance is -- yes, they can be.
14 Let me just say it can be.
15 Q. Have you ever found that to be the
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17 streamed?
18 A. I can't think of the specific, but I
19 believe that we have.
20 Q. How much resources does the MPAA
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22 prevent these four categories of problems you've
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5 as the compression gets better, as the bandwidth
6 gets better, as the ability to stream gets
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9 Q. You anticipate that it will become a
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11 A. Absolutely.
12 Q. Is the MPAA working on security
13 systems to prevent this from becoming a larger
14 and larger problem?
15 A. The MPAA itself does not develop
16 security systems.
17 Q. Do you know who does?
18 A. Any technological company out there
19 that wants to work on a security system. I don't
20 think there is an answer to that question. It
21 can be anybody anywhere.
22 Q. Do you know if MPAA members are
23 developing security systems?
24 A. Developing it themselves?
25 Q. Yes.
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2 A. I don't know the answer.
3 Q. Do you know if they are working with
4 third-parties to develop security systems?
5 MR. COOPER: You know, I think the
6 witness knows what he means by security
7 systems. It is not clear to me that you are
8 both using it the same way. For the clarity
9 of the record we should get some kind of
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11 MR. HERNSTADT: Sure.
12 Q. How are you using "security systems"?
13 A. I'm using a security system to mean
14 some form of technology which will protect our
15 product from being illegally copied, illegally
16 screened, illegally downloaded.
17 MR. HERNSTADT: That is essentially
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19 MR. COOPER: I just wanted to make
20 sure. I'm not sure that the average reader
21 would know what either of you meant even if
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23 MR. HERNSTADT: That's fine. What was
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2 MR. LITVACK: Off the record.
3 (Whereupon, a recess was taken from
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5 MR. COOPER: Can you read back the
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7 (Record read.)
8 MR. COOPER: The area of current
9 development of future security systems is
10 one of particular concern to the member
11 companies. I want to make sure that in
12 allowing the witness to answer foundation
13 questions regarding his general knowledge in
14 the area, we don't waive objections of any
15 type with respect to propriety of inquiry
16 into this general subject matter.
17 With that understanding, I will let
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19 you have to determine whether the witness
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21 MR. HERNSTADT: That's understood.
22 That's fine.
23 A. I think yesterday we talked about the
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5 Since I know that the member companies
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7 answer to your question is yes, they are working
8 with third-parties to develop technology.
9 Q. Apart from the CPWG, working group, do
10 you know of any other third-party that the MPAA
11 member companies are working with on security?
12 A. Not specifically, no.
13 Q. You discussed yesterday a meeting some
14 time in mid to late October and December at which
15 the DVD CCA, the MPAA and the MIAA were present?
16 A. That's not an accurate depiction. I
17 don't recall I said the DVD CCA was there.
18 Q. Weil Gotshal was.
19 A. That's different. To be clear, I did
20 not say the DVD CCA was present.
21 Q. That is correct. I made that
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6 MR. HERNSTADT: You were going to --
7 MR. COOPER: Yes, I do assert the
8 attorney/client privilege. My understanding
9 is the subject of that meeting would be
10 covered by that privilege, and that anything
11 the witness remembers from those
12 conversations, therefore, would be subject
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14 MR. HERNSTADT: What is the basis of
15 the privilege if there were lawyers for a
16 third-party present, the Weil Gotshal
17 lawyers? Weil Gotshal is not representing,
18 as far as I know, as far as you told us, do
19 not represent either the MPAA or the
20 Plaintiffs in this matter.
21 In fact, we know they represent the
22 DVD CCA. So how is there a privilege when
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24 MR. COOPER: My understanding is that
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5 MR. HERNSTADT: At that time.
6 Q. My understanding, let me clarify: Did
7 this meeting take place prior to December 24th?
8 MR. COOPER: The witness testified he
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10 I think the prior question was asked in
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12 Superior Court action filed by the DVD CCA.
13 MR. HERNSTADT: Exactly.
14 MR. COOPER: The witness has testified
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17 MR. HERNSTADT: He recalls it was some
18 time between October and December.
19 Q. Does that fairly state what your
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21 A. Yes.
22 MR. HERNSTADT: It is my understanding
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