Introduction
Understanding the pending appeal and the issues it raises requires some familiarity with technical
aspects of computers and computer software, especially software called "digital versatile disks"
or "DVDs," which are optical media storage devices currently designed to contain movies. Those
lacking such familiarity will be greatly aided by reading Judge Kaplan's extremely lucid opinion,
Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294 (S.D.N.Y. 2000) ("Universal I"),
beginning with his helpful section "The Vocabulary of this Case.