Technologies that will be criminal if we lose Grokster: email, blogs, Xerox machines

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Samsung, Xerox Roll Out New Machines

Samsung, Xerox Roll Out New Machines 05/10/2004 08:45 AM
Samsung Electronics last week introduced several color, monochrome and multifunction printers.

Blogs lose their voice

Blogs lose their voice 06/16/2004 06:08 PM
ZDNet Jun 16 2004 9:42PM GMT

3,000 bl0gs lose their voice

3,000 bl0gs lose their voice 06/16/2004 02:51 PM
Software developer Dave Winer shutters Weblogs.com without notice, citing heavy traffic load. Some blogging fans blast the move.

Case study: Secure eMail - helps join up
the Criminal Justice System

Case study: Secure eMail - helps join up
the Criminal Justice System 04/19/2004 02:43 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 19 2004 7:08AM GMT

Why bl0gs are better (funnier) than
email

Why bl0gs are better (funnier) than
email 09/02/2004 05:51 AM
I know, I know... There are hundreds of reasons why, and a lot of people would completely disagree with that statement.

But today I realized one big reason: choice.

Many people send funny jokes and pictures around the office and friends. You know - a long joke, or a funny picture, or in the extreme cases, a 3.5 Megabyte Powerpoint (with pictures) or a Quicktime movie file.

I hate it. On some of my email accounts, I have a mail quota - and I hit it really fast if I'm away a week. If I printed and burned all the Powerpoint slideshows I get, I could comfortably warm my house through the winter. I also read my mail quite often through GPRS (40 kbps or less), and I really, really don't like it when a "fun" movie clogs the connection for several minutes.

On the other hand, I have no problems whatsoever with people who post fun things on their blogs. The difference? Choice.

I get to choose whether I want to see that "fun" thing or not. Sometimes I don't have the time, or I don't have the equipment, or I just can't be bothered. With email it just comes to your inbox, and you cannot do a damned thing about it. Anyone can send me email, even the people with a bad sense of humour. (Not that I know any) You have to react to email, even if it's just deleting the message without reading. If someone, however, posts a link to their blog, I can read the description, bookmark it and come back to the message later on. Bloglines allows me to save blog entries easily for later viewing - which is highly useful and does not clutter my Bookmarks bar.

Blogs are a far better way of spreading memes than email, because they reach fertile ground quicker. Email depends too much on people forwarding your "funny" thing to others - blogs are visible to all people (and Google). Therefore, blogs will eventually surpass email as the preferred communication medium for non-personal items. I think :)

Fox is advertising on Grokster, also
suing to put Grokster out of business

Fox is advertising on Grokster, also
suing to put Grokster out of business 03/25/2005 06:37 PM
Cory Doctorow: Grokster goes to the Supreme Court next week, where the MPAA studios are suing the P2P company over producing a tool that can be used to infringe copyright, and nevermind that it has lots of non-infringing uses too. Ironically, Fox, a leading MPAA member, is actually advertising its movies on Grokster:

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP., currently suing Grokster and Morpheus for alleged copyright violations enabled by their peer-to-peer technology, apparently advertises through software bundled with Grokster, according to adware researcher Eric Howes. Howes reported Thursday afternoon that he was served a full-screen trailer for the DVD of the 20th Century Fox movie "Fat Albert," after downloading all of the software bundled with Grokster--eight separate adware programs.

Link (Thanks, Molly!)

Alt-N Technologies Announces New Mdaemon
8.0; Latest Version Continues Tradition
Of Powerful, Affordable Email

Alt-N Technologies Announces New Mdaemon
8.0; Latest Version Continues Tradition
Of Powerful, Affordable Email 04/13/2005 02:02 AM
Alt-N Technologies, the premier publisher of email, groupware and fax software for the Windows platform, announces the product release of MDaemon 8.0. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines

Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines 06/14/2004 03:33 AM
It appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling machines. Perhaps that's because electronic gambling machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines. Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had convict ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting machines as well.

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004 03/27/2005 05:50 AM
ZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines 12/04/2003 01:10 PM
Slashdot Dec 4 2003 12:50PM ET

Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway

Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway 09/05/2004 02:37 AM
Atlantic Sky has announced its support to the Sender ID standard for email sender authentication. Atlantic Sky's support will make Sender ID available to global enterprises through its Mailqube 2003 E-mail gateway. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004]

TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic

TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic 04/07/2005 07:33 AM
dBusinessNews.com Apr 7 2005 10:26AM GMT

802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies

802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies 08/29/2004 03:57 AM
[PRWEB Aug 29, 2004]

Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7%

Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7% 02/14/2004 10:52 AM
Canadian Press Feb 14 2004 2:11PM GMT

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs 12/28/2004 11:37 AM
CERT Reveals Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs .. Permanent link to this item

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Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

boston.com/news/blogs/dnc/2004/07/blogging_crosse.html
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Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report

Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report 06/28/2004 03:12 PM
In the latest in an occasional series of e-mails to Microsoft customers, Microsoft's chairman provides an update on the progress of efforts to curb the epidemic of junk e-mail.

Free Email Notifier for POP3, IMAP4 and
Gmail Email Accounts

Free Email Notifier for POP3, IMAP4 and
Gmail Email Accounts 06/17/2005 03:17 PM
Chrysanth Software has released Chrysanth Email Notifier v2.3, a free POP3, IMAP4 and Gmail notification software that helps you to get notified of every incoming email and even spams in your mail boxes while they are still sitting on the remote email servers. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Email Hosting Service by Runbox Provides
Businesses with Premium Email

Email Hosting Service by Runbox Provides
Businesses with Premium Email 06/05/2005 11:37 PM
Offer premium email to your business with Runbox Email Hosting. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2005]

MGM v. Grokster

MGM v. Grokster 03/29/2005 02:08 PM

TechNews.com's Grokster Case At a Glance: Big Supreme Court case today — MGM v. Grokster. This is considered by many to be the showdown in the file sharing and P2P frontier. The ruling here will have huge reverberations on both the entertainment and Internet industries.

This article has a good wrap-up.

So far, lower courts have ruled that the defendants in the case — Grokster and StreamCast Networks — can't be held responsible for what users do with their software, even if that includes illegally downloading copyrighted songs, films and software products.

For their sake, I hope Big Media has got a better attorney than the last time they lost. I heard an MP3 of the arguments (available at the link), and their guy was just destroyed by the other side (I think it was a EFF or someone that was fronting the counsel). The media attorney seemed like a total amateur.

"MGM v. Grokster - The Law and IT"

"MGM v. Grokster - The Law and IT" 04/03/2005 10:12 PM

"MGM et. al. v. Grokster"

"MGM et. al. v. Grokster" 08/19/2004 09:00 PM

Big Win for Grokster

Big Win for Grokster 08/20/2004 04:22 AM
US Court of Appeals .. opinion .. ruling .. ruled

ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/E9CE41F2E90CC8D788256EF40 0822372/$file/0355894.pdf?openelement
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Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail

Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail 08/17/2004 02:00 AM
Aliencamel.com announces that the email-storage-space race is over. This race was started by Google's Gmail service offering 1GB of storage. AlienCamel has gone the final step and is now offering its users unlimited storage. By removing limits on space, users now have a simple, low-cost service which will keep their emails safe, secure and backed up forever. AlienCamel has implemented the most sophisticated anti-spam filtering and email-virus-blocking technology over the last 18 months. Now, AlienCamel is the first independent commercial email service in the world to offer "unlimited storage for personal email". [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]

In the Wake of Grokster...

In the Wake of Grokster... 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
...the Justice Department is conducting criminal investigations of file-sharing networks. This development illustrates a point I made in a previous posting (a Lessig point) about the relationship of substitution between law and technology. The Grokster decision last week, if it holds up, will facilitate circumvention of copyright law by file...

The Grokster appeal

The Grokster appeal 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
News from the oral argument in the Grokster case yesterday is quite good. The argument on our side of the debate was excellent. Fred was extraordinary, and the judges seemed perfectly tuned to the issues. EFF's got a recording of the argument here, and Ed Lee's got a nice write up on his blog as well. The tide is turning.

Grokster is the new Betamax

Grokster is the new Betamax 02/11/2004 12:29 PM
My cow-orker Ren Bucholz has done a magnificent and pithy analysis of the parallels between the 1983 Supreme Court arguments in Betamax, in which the studios argued that the VCR should be criminalized, and last week's arguments in the 9th Circuit Appeals Court in Grokster, in which the recording industry argued the same thing about P2P file-sharing networks:

Later in last week's argument, Judge Thomas took Frackman's argument (knowledge - ability = contributory infringement) to its logical conclusion by asking whether he thought Xerox should be held liable when a UCLA student uses a photocopier to make infringing copies. Here's what happened to Kroft in '83:

Justice Stevens: Under your test, supposing somebody tells the Xerox people that there are people making illegal copies with their machine, and they know it. What are they supposed to do? ... Your view of the law is that as long as Xerox knows that there is some illegal copying going on, Xerox is a contributory infringer?

Kroft: To be consistent, your honor, I'd have to say yes.

Justice Stevens: A rather extreme position.

Link

Grokster Wins

Grokster Wins 08/19/2004 04:59 PM
Grokster has won MGM v. Grokster. Analysis coming soon....

EFF: Countdown to Grokster

EFF: Countdown to Grokster 03/27/2005 04:46 AM

Livebl0gging Grokster

Livebl0gging Grokster 03/29/2005 11:57 AM
Cory Doctorow: Several bloggers -- include EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer -- are in DC today for the Supreme Court hearing on Grokster, where the movie studios are asking the court to criminalize any technology where the designers have failed to anticipate the ways in which it could be used to infringe and designed to block it (e.g., email, photocopiers, the Internet). They're blogging it and posting pictures, too. Wendy Seltzer Link, Machination.org Link, Photos (Thanks, Cyrus!)

Grokster and the Future of the Net

Grokster and the Future of the Net 02/01/2005 09:33 PM

The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of the Grokster litigation on March 29. The case deals directly with the legality of distributed peer-to-peer file-shsaring services, but its ramifications could go much further. Like the landmark 1997 case striking down the Communications Decency Act, the Grokster decision could be a bellweather for Internet freedom... or it could push the Net down a much less open, less innovative, less dynamic, and less valuable path.

Several amicus briefs were just filed in the case. Ed Felten gives a good summary of what's wrong the with anti-P2P view:

"These briefs are caught between nostalgia for a past that never existed, and false hope for future technologies that won't do the job."

Like it or not, much more than the future of the music industry is at stake here. In fact, business models for recorded music are are among the least likely things to change depending on how Grokster comes out. The P2P horse is out of the barn, but so is the licensed digital music horse, thanks to iTunes, Real Rhapsody, Mercora, and other innovators. I'm much more worried about what the case might mean for the Net as a whole.

Grokster transcript PDF

Grokster transcript PDF 04/07/2005 02:57 AM
Cory Doctorow: The oral argument from last month's Grokster Supreme Court case (where EFF argued that technology companies shouldn't have to imagine all the infringing ways that their customers might use their products and design to prevent them -- otherwise the iPod, Outlook and the Xerox machine would all be illegal) is available online now as a transcript. It's 55 pages long, but the type is big and double-spaced! 144K PDF Link (via Copyfight)

Grokster roundups

Grokster roundups 03/30/2005 01:37 AM
Tim Anderson was at the Supreme Court hearing on the Grokster case and writes it up without too too much legalese. So does Donna Wentworth at Copyfight. Wendy "Berkperson" Seltzer has a bit at EFF, as well as a photo of her camping out on the Courthouse steps. Would we expect any less from the EFF? Here's the friend of the court brief prepared by three of the Berkman's leaders: The brief urged the Court not to modify the standard it created 20 years ago in its landmark Sony-Betamax decision, which exempted from liability the distributors of technologies - in...

bl0gging mgm vs. grokster

bl0gging mgm vs. grokster 03/28/2005 11:36 PM
Blogging it Live from outside SCOTUS and MGM vs. Grokster, it's NickD.

Grokster, the FEC, Apple and Me

Grokster, the FEC, Apple and Me 03/31/2005 09:04 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 31 2005 1:14PM GMT

Xerox Gets Jammed

Xerox Gets Jammed 04/27/2004 10:09 AM
Xerox shares took a hit despite better-than-expected first-quarter earnings.

Trash Your Xerox

Trash Your Xerox 09/14/2004 12:43 PM
A lame, grammatically challenged tag line speaks volumes about Xerox's problems.
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