Accusations fly over Cuban Internet

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Kerry center of internet accusations,
denials

Kerry center of internet accusations,
denials 02/15/2004 02:32 AM
Jang Group Feb 15 2004 6:36AM GMT

Kerry center of internet accusations,
denials (0920 PST)

Kerry center of internet accusations,
denials (0920 PST) 02/15/2004 05:50 AM
Hi Pakistan Feb 15 2004 9:45AM GMT

AOL may face SEC accusations

AOL may face SEC accusations 04/13/2004 07:25 AM
CNN Apr 13 2004 11:34AM GMT

IE Developer Responds to Mozilla
Accusations

IE Developer Responds to Mozilla
Accusations 03/24/2005 10:09 AM

Armstrong: Doping Accusations Are False
(AP)

Armstrong: Doping Accusations Are False
(AP) 06/15/2004 06:10 PM
AP - Lance Armstrong juggled controversy and ceremony Tuesday, promising to take action against "absolutely untrue" doping accusations and announcing a new sponsor.

Futuremark official comment to
Gainward's accusations

Futuremark official comment to
Gainward's accusations 11/12/2003 04:28 PM

Apex Answers Accusations by TV Maker in
China

Apex Answers Accusations by TV Maker in
China 01/04/2005 11:49 PM
Apex Digital, the electronic goods company accused by a Chinese television maker of causing it huge financial losses, has fought back against the charges.

Online marketer faces 'thiefware'
accusations

Online marketer faces 'thiefware'
accusations 07/10/2004 06:49 AM
Seattlepi.nwsource.com - Sat Jul 10, 08:22 am GMT

Iran Rejects Chalabi Spying Accusations
(AP)

Iran Rejects Chalabi Spying Accusations
(AP) 05/23/2004 03:19 AM
AP - Iran acknowledged Sunday it had a strong dialogue with embattled Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, but rejected accusations that he passed classified intelligence to Iran.

Iran rejects Chalabi spying accusations

Iran rejects Chalabi spying accusations 05/23/2004 01:44 PM

Campaigns Trade Accusations Over
National Security

Campaigns Trade Accusations Over
National Security 04/26/2004 05:18 PM
The presidential campaigns attacked each other on the question of which candidate has the better credentials to protect the country.

Cheers from Microsoft follow state
e-mail accusations

Cheers from Microsoft follow state
e-mail accusations 04/04/2005 09:45 PM
bizjournals.com Apr 5 2005 1:23AM GMT

Sun fires back over Open Source Java
accusations

Sun fires back over Open Source Java
accusations 02/17/2004 05:01 PM
Sun has offered a frank response to the open letter from Eric S, Raymond, President, Open Source Initiative, in which he called on Sun to make its Java platform Open Source and described the company's Open Source strategy as 'spotty' and 'confused'.

2nd Iraqi Assembly Meeting Breaks Down
Amid Accusations

2nd Iraqi Assembly Meeting Breaks Down
Amid Accusations 03/29/2005 11:40 AM
The meeting turned into a shouting match and showed the tensions that are rising as the main parties fail to reach an agreement to form a coalition government.

Iran Rejects Accusations Over Sept. 11
Attacks (Reuters)

Iran Rejects Accusations Over Sept. 11
Attacks (Reuters) 07/23/2004 11:21 AM
Reuters - Iran dismissed Friday U.S. accusations that it may have been linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and called the charges part of a cover-up to divert attention from Washington's failures in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Accusations exchanged over Bush's
military record (USATODAY.com)

Accusations exchanged over Bush's
military record (USATODAY.com) 09/10/2004 05:19 AM
USATODAY.com - President Bush's advisers accused his Democratic rival Thursday of orchestrating new accusations about Bush's National Guard service.

Abbas Rejects Accusations by Sharon at
Bush Talks (Reuters)

Abbas Rejects Accusations by Sharon at
Bush Talks (Reuters) 04/13/2005 11:25 AM
Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday rebuffed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's accusations made during U.S. talks that the Palestinians were at fault for stalled peace moves.

Jerry Killian's Secretary Surfaces: Says
CBS Docs 'Forgeries', But Stands By
Accusations Against Bush

Jerry Killian's Secretary Surfaces: Says
CBS Docs 'Forgeries', But Stands By
Accusations Against Bush 09/15/2004 07:32 PM
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Cuban: No wimping out

Cuban: No wimping out 03/28/2005 08:05 PM
Blog: He’s got a big mouth and an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. But Marc Cuban also has moxie – and that counts for a...

Cuban vs. Google: It's On!

Cuban vs. Google: It's On! 08/03/2004 02:44 PM
Mark Cuban, who obviously just has too much time on his hands, is teaming up with Icerocket in an attempt to thwart Google for search engine dominance.

Cuban artists

Cuban artists 01/07/2004 04:27 PM

One of our friends has a young Cuban lover and she goes to visit him there periodically.  This situation spurred some reflection:  "Why are there so many artists and musicians in Cuba?"The next thought "Well, why not?"In the U.S. when Johnny decides to ignore his family's advice and take up oil painting or guitar playing instead of investment banking it is a big crisis.Johnny is very likely giving up the opportunity to own real estate, send his kids to private school, and otherwise enjoy the great festival of materialism that is the United States.  In an economy with hardly any opportunity, however, why wouldn't a person choose to do art or music?

Art doesn't require a lot of capital investment.  You really just need a crayon and some paper (or scissors and paper if you were Matisse).  If human ability is equally distributed across the globe you'd therefore expect the best art to come from the poorest countries where people have no competing bourgeois job offers.  Yet paradoxically the art for which people are willing to pay the most money seems to come from advanced economies such as Germany, England, Japan, and the U.S.

For the comment section:  Why?

[I'll start by throwing out a personal opinion:  art can only touch you if the artist shares a similar social and economic environment, which is why Westerners mostly like the art that is produced in Western countries; art produced in poor countries is actually much better but we can't appreciate it because, despite heavy doses of ecotourism, we can't understand the milieu in which it was produced.]

The Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution 03/30/2005 06:49 AM
Maverick billionaire blogger Mark Cuban wants to take the film out of the film industry. And his all-digital vision is coming soon to a screen near you. By Xeni Jardin from Wired magazine.

Cuban on Sweat

Cuban on Sweat 06/08/2004 09:50 PM
Via Mark Cuban, some very wise remarks about how to build a business from scratch, and why you should avoid taking VC money if you possibly can. [PS: I’m not going to turn ongoing into a collection of pointers to other Web stuff, this is just a coincidence, partly due to the fact that I’m hovering over the aggregate PlanetSun feed to see how this experiment goes, and I keep seeing interesting things go by.]

Mark Cuban, Longtailer

Mark Cuban, Longtailer 03/30/2005 06:11 PM
Xeni Jardin: On the Long Tail blog, Wired Magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson lists ten reasons why Mark Cuban is "today's Long Tail hero." Incidentally -- I wrote a profile on Mr. Cuban's digital cinema plans ("The Cuban Revolution") for this month's issue of the magazine. Excerpt from the ten-point list:

1. He's promoting HDTV the right way, by commissioning and distributing content. 
2. He's funding the Grokster defense. 
3. He's a real blogger, warts and all. 
4. He says that he won't use the broadcast flag. 
5. He got the idea of reinventing TV a decade ago, and his work lives on in Yahoo!'s excellent video search and music video services. 
6. He doesn't believe the RIAA. 
7. He sent a team to cover the Iraq elections, live, in high-def. 
8. He has a successful reality TV show. 
9. He really gets the Long Tail: "Popular items are just that, popular. My guess however is that in absolute numbers, the long tail of the download distribution curves, both in terms of number of songs and in number of songs downloaded, overwhelm the number of copyrighted songs illegally being downloaded."

Link to blog post. Mr. Anderson also has an op-ed about MGM v. Grokster in today's Los Angeles times, and it's well worth a read. Snip:

What's at stake is the realm of ideas, sliced and diced a million ways. The peer-to-peer music sites are the closest current approximation to the celestial jukebox we all want. Kazaa, for instance, has 25 million unique tracks, dwarfing iTunes' measly 1 million. BitTorrent has more videos than Blockbuster. Much of it is pirated, to be sure, but a significant portion of it — videogame highlights, say — was never intended to be moneymaking in the first place. The problem is that we don't know how to stop the piracy without chilling the creativity.

The main flaw in the case against Grokster is that the action attempts to criminalize a technology rather than a specific use. It also fails to distinguish between commercial content and noncommercial content. Restricting these powerful new distribution tools to fight piracy would hobble the new emerging creative class too. The potential collateral damage to legitimate users is much higher than in the Betamax case.

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Mark Cuban On The Death Of The CD

Mark Cuban On The Death Of The CD 04/05/2005 10:17 PM

Cuban on Music Retailing

Cuban on Music Retailing 04/05/2005 07:07 PM
Mark Cuban is always worth reading, but when he’s right, as in this piece on the extinction of the CD, he’s really right.

"Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald""

"Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald"" 04/17/2004 03:09 PM

Three Minutes With Mark Cuban

Three Minutes With Mark Cuban 09/02/2004 07:32 PM

Mark Cuban, DVD killer

Mark Cuban, DVD killer 09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Dallas Mavs and HDNet owner Mark Cuban has an interesting blog entry today on the future of DVDs and PVRs:

I love looking for ways to screw up conventional wisdom. Right now in the entertainment world, the conventional wisdom is that both sides on the HD DVD vs Blue Ray DVD will battle it out and a standard for HD on DVD will emerge. No one is trying to rush to a compromise because the big media companies want to squeeze as much money as they possibly can out the current DVD business cycle.

Good. The longer it takes, the less chance any format of DVD has of having a place in the future of home entertainment. Don’t look now, but the price and size of hard drives have fallen like a rock, while capacities have soared, with no slowdown in site.

Which leads to the question — What is the best way to distribute content? DVDs which will be limited in capacity to 9.4gbs on a single DVD for another year, and then after that 50gbs on a single disk for years to come after that, or rewritable media that can hold 2gb already in a device half the size of a pen, or in a hard drive that can hold 200GBs plus in a drive the size of your cell phone?

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Two more Cuban dissidents freed

Two more Cuban dissidents freed 06/24/2004 10:57 PM
Two ailing Cuban dissidents are released, including poet Manuel Vázquez Portal, after four left jail earlier.

Mamma Slides as Cuban Sells

Mamma Slides as Cuban Sells 07/02/2004 09:52 AM
TheStreet.com Jul 2 2004 1:58PM GMT

No Waste, a booklet about Cuban
recycling

No Waste, a booklet about Cuban
recycling 08/20/2004 07:59 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Bruce Sterling sent me a copy of No Waste, a free booklet published by Pentagram Design about the ingenious re-use of stuff by Cubans. In a country where new appliances and vehicles are unheard of, resourceful people are turning soda cans into mousetraps, glue bottles into toy cars, plastic jugs into taxi lights, and fumigator engines into motorcycles. These "objects of necessity" are works of wonder. You can get a free copy of the book by emailing Pentagram.

Cuban dissidents held at Gitmo?

Cuban dissidents held at Gitmo? 05/20/2004 11:43 AM

Mark Cuban on the future of HD Media

Mark Cuban on the future of HD Media 08/23/2004 02:25 PM

"Like those who smuggle Cuban goods into
their country."

"Like those who smuggle Cuban goods into
their country." 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

Interview With Mark Cuban About Grokster

Interview With Mark Cuban About Grokster 03/31/2005 12:18 AM

Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood
disgust

Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood
disgust 03/31/2005 11:39 AM
Hollywood vs P2P It's a morality thing

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM
case.

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM
case. 03/27/2005 10:46 AM

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM case

Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM case 03/27/2005 01:20 PM
Slashdot Mar 27 2005 4:33PM GMT
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