Common use of Phase I Control Clause in Contracts

Phase I Control. For all Phase I implementations, the regional code playback instructions contained on a DVD Disc shall be implemented for DVD Drives through Hardware or Software closely coupled with the Hardware and/or Software modules responsible for the authentication function and for the descrambling of the CSS Data. As used in the previous sentence, "closely coupled" shall mean that: (a) the Hardware or Software that supports the regional playback control function does not support substitution of Hardware and/or Software modules that will circumvent the regional playback control capability but continue to allow playback. (b) In the case of operating system Software which fully supports regional playback control, "closely coupled" shall mean that the Software that supports the regional playback control function will also perform critically necessary functions for the playback of regionalized movies and thus will be difficult to re- engineer, replace or modify in order to circumvent regional playback control. (c) The regional playback control shall disallow playback unless the region setting of the DVD Disc is consistent with the single region setting of the regional playback control module. End users shall not be permitted to alter the region assignment of the regional playback control module once such region assignment has been set.

Phase I Control. For all Phase I implementations, the regional code playback instructions contained on a DVD Disc shall be implemented for DVD Drives through Hardware or Software closely coupled with the Hardware and/or Software modules responsible for the authentication function and for the descrambling of the CSS Data. As used in the previous sentence, "closely coupled" shall mean that:: Amendment as it applies to Electronic Sell Through shall be the later of July 1, 2008 and the provision by such CSS Licensee of the signed Acknowledgment. (a) the Hardware or Software that supports the regional playback control function does not support substitution of Hardware and/or Software modules that will circumvent the regional playback control capability but continue to allow playback. (b) In the case of operating system Software which fully supports regional playback control, "closely coupled" shall mean that the Software that supports the regional playback control function will also perform critically necessary functions for the playback of regionalized movies and thus will be difficult to re- engineer, replace or modify in order to circumvent regional playback control. (c) The regional playback control shall disallow playback unless the region setting of the DVD Disc is consistent with the single region setting of the regional playback control module. End users shall not be permitted to alter the region assignment of the regional playback control module once such region assignment has been set.

Phase I Control. For all Phase I implementations, the regional code playback instructions contained on a DVD Disc shall be implemented for DVD Drives through Hardware or Software closely coupled with the Hardware and/or Software modules responsible for the authentication function and for the descrambling of the CSS Data. As used in the previous sentence, "closely coupled" shall mean that: (a) the Hardware or Software that supports the regional playback control function does not support substitution of Hardware and/or Software modules that will circumvent the regional playback control capability but continue to allow playback. (b) In the case of operating system Software which fully supports regional playback control, "closely coupled" shall mean that the Software that supports the regional playback control function will also perform critically necessary functions for the playback of regionalized movies and thus will be difficult to re- re-engineer, replace or modify in order to circumvent regional playback control. (c) The regional playback control shall disallow playback unless the region setting of the DVD Disc is consistent with the single region setting of the regional playback control module. End users shall not be permitted to alter the region assignment of the regional playback control module once such region assignment has been set.