뉴단에 대해 궁금하신 분 - 줄거리는 아래에 있습니다.

The following is information I obtained on one of the many Dahn lawsuits. And in case you are interested, the "trade secret" documents, were never made part of the record. They couldn't prove the defendant hacked their system and had to pay certain costs, and they ended up paying attorneys fees to them, after they lost.

A Dahn World Co Lawsuit
Case 8:06-cv-02170-RWT
United States District Court, District of Maryland

In August of 2006, Dahn World Co. LTD, a Korean Corporation, filed a complaint against Eun Hee Chung of Maryland, claiming she was Zhibin Zhong@newdahn.com. The Plaintiff claimed that Dahn World provided a secure internet computer service for their Dahn Centers worldwide, and that the defendant had improperly obtained access to this system, obtaining their trade secret documents and posting them on the net, also committing copyright infringment. Eun Hee Chung, in her answer denied she had even accessed this computer system.

According to her motion for Summary Judgment, Chung said that she had been involved with Dahn World when she was in high school in Korea, and had then moved to Maryland, and had been involved in other Dahn activities until approximately 1999. Previously in 2005 Dahn had sued her in Arizona court where their case was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction in June of 2006.Chung had been sued because an anti-Dahn website had its web hosting fees charged to her credit card, charges which she disputed within a week or so of their charging.

Based on Dahn’s non-answers to 19 of the 30 requests for admissions, the defendant’s lawyers moved for summary judement, claiming that the plaintiff had failed to allege facts that would give rise to the elements necessary to establish an action under the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, copyright act infringement under the DMCA, breach of a non-disclosure policy, tortious interference with business relations, and violation of Maryland’s Uniform Trade Secret Act claim.

In its Motion in reply, Dahn claimed that not only did they have credit card information linking Chung to the newdahn.com site but their private investigator had recovered notes from her garbage indicating that she was looking to host this website on Pegasus Web Technologies in Turkey. (The defendant replied her notes were being misconstrued.) The Plaintiff then claimed that Chung had been hospitalized after visiting their Sedona Arizona center in 1999 and was therefore seeking revenge. Based on her August, 2007 deposition. (See page 258-9) it appeared that the defendant was at least helping other people who were running the New Dahn website. In their reply brief, the defendant pointed out that there was no evidence that she administered the New Dahn Site, or had broken into JJAN without authorization. The Defendant claimed the handwritten notes were produced after she was sued in Arizona, when she was investigating the suit against her.

The court granted summary judgment for the defendant on June 26, 2008 through a one page order, and the Defendant then moved to collect her attorney’s fees under the DMCA and the Maryland Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Up to that point she had spent $52,000 of her own money defending the action. The court would eventually award her $68,000 in attorneys fees. Dahn World’s attorneys withdrew from the case, and the defendant’s attorneys proceeded to try to serve post judgment interrogatories on Dahn World, so they could collect their judgment. After further efforts to obtain information from the corporate entity known as Dahn World, the original plaintiff finally paid the attorney’s fees and the defendant filed a Notice of Satisfaction on 7-22-2009


2006년 8월 메릴랜드 지방법원에서 진행 되었던 한국의 단월드가 메릴랜드주에 사는 정은희 씨를 고소한 정황 입니다. 한참 뉴단이 활성화 될때였죠. 정씨가 짠 싸이트를 해킹해서 영업기밀을 공개해서 저작권을 위반했다는 고소였고 정씨는 고소내용을 부정했습니다. 단월드측에서 뉴단 싸이트 관련 정씨의 크레딧 카드 증거를 제시하였고, 단월드측 사설탐정이 정씨의 쓰레기를 뒤진결과 뉴단관련 자료를 입수 했다고 주장 했습니다. 아울러 단월드측은 정씨가 1999년에 세도나에 갔다가 갑자기 아파서 병원신세를 진 이후 보복을 할 생각을 했다고 주장 했습니다.

법원은 2008년 정씨측 승소를 판결 헀고, 정씨측은 이 케이스를 변호 하느라 변호비용 미화 $52,000불을 지출 했습니다. 법원은 단월드에게 $68,000불을 배상할것을 명령헀습니다. 단월드 변호사는 사임했고 (단월드 측에서 돈을 안주려는 계산이었죠) 정씨측에서는 다양한 방법으로 단월드와 접촉해서 2009년 7월 22일 배상금을 받아 냈습니다.