Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM case

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Mark Cuban to fund Grokster vs. MGM
case.

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

Interview With Mark Cuban About Grokster

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

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense 03/27/2005 05:49 PM
Billionaire announces he will finance the peer-to-peer software company's defense to preserve technological innovation.

Mark Cuban Explains Why Grokster Is
Worth Supporting Any Way Possible

Mark Cuban Explains Why Grokster Is
Worth Supporting Any Way Possible 03/28/2005 03:37 AM
While most of the coverage of Mark Cuban's latest announcement focuses on the fact that he recently agreed to fund the EFF's legal defense of Grokster at the Supreme Court, reading his full statement on the matter is much more interesting. It's not about the fact that he's helping out, but goes into the details of what's at stake -- and why everyone should support the Grokster case, however they can. What he's saying (in somewhat different words) is that, if the entertainment industry wins, they'll have succeeded in turning the internet in the US into television: a medium where they are the sole gatekeepers of the content and what can be done with it. That ignores the fact that the internet is about commu nications, not broadcast content -- where anyone can create the content they want and deliver it however they want. Mark Cuban is creating a ton of content and he wants that "content to get to the customer in the way the customer wants to receive it, when they want to receive it, at a price that is of value to them." He can do that now. He can't if the entertainment industry wins the Grokster case, because they'll cut off many of the channels by which content now reaches people.

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense |
CNET News.com

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense |
CNET News.com 03/28/2005 08:06 AM
Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense

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Mark Cuban will fund Grokster's legal
battle

Mark Cuban will fund Grokster's legal
battle 03/28/2005 01:16 PM
Xeni Jardin: Dallas Mavs owner and serial digital entrepreneur Mark Cuban, whose digital cinema plans I profile in the current issue of Wired Magazine, has agreed to fund the legal defense of P2P service Grokster. Link to Cuban's blog entry, "Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster"

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, 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?

Link

Mark Cuban On The Death Of The CD

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

Three Minutes With Mark Cuban

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

Mark Cuban on the future of HD Media

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

Mark Cuban Sells Mamma.com Stake

Mark Cuban Sells Mamma.com Stake 07/02/2004 06:09 PM
Source: InternetNews.com - Mamma.com tumbled 15% Friday on news that the Internet billionaire had sold his stake in the company....

Mark Cuban to Finance Grokster's Fight
(PC World)

Mark Cuban to Finance Grokster's Fight
(PC World) 03/28/2005 01:03 PM
PC World - Internet millionaire lends his support to the peer-to-peer company's legal battle.

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster's Supreme
Court battle

Mark Cuban to finance Grokster's Supreme
Court battle 03/28/2005 08:14 AM
Lawyers for Grokster have recruited a financially powerful ally in their fight against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

Mark Cuban talks about how he thinks the
RIAA doesnt have a Clue

Mark Cuban talks about how he thinks the
RIAA doesnt have a Clue 04/01/2005 03:24 PM

This is a great article and I think Mark Cuban's comments are dead on accurate. The RIAA has not a clue of the actual impact File Sharing has had on the market place.

For those not aware Mark Cuban bank rolled the legal challenge of MGM vs Grokster and those of you that worry about the impact of this Supreme Court ruling need to go over their and thank Mark for what he did. [Blog Maverick]

Thank you, Donald - Blog Maverick - The
Mark Cuban Webl0g - www.bl0gmaverick.com

Thank you, Donald - Blog Maverick - The
Mark Cuban Webl0g - www.bl0gmaverick.com 04/17/2004 12:38 PM
Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald" .. Mark Cuban gets personal .. smacks down

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Camping Out for the Grokster Case

Camping Out for the Grokster Case 03/30/2005 06:49 AM
Cold and sometimes rainy weather didn't deter some from waiting in line for the Grokster hearing. Pilgrims came from places like Canada and California to watch the historic file-sharing case unfold. Katie Dean reports from Washington.

Grokster case may have large impact
beyond P-to-P

Grokster case may have large impact
beyond P-to-P 03/24/2005 12:14 PM
WASHINGTON -- When the entertainment industry faces off against two peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors in the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, nothing less than the future of technological innovation is at stake, according to some technology trade groups.

Kerry Fund-Raising Hits $180 Million
Mark (Reuters)

Kerry Fund-Raising Hits $180 Million
Mark (Reuters) 07/01/2004 05:17 PM
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has raised $180 million in his bid for the White House, including $34 million in the last month alone, his campaign announced on Thursday.

Grokster / StreamCast legal case
continues

Grokster / StreamCast legal case
continues 04/01/2005 03:38 AM
TechSpot Apr 1 2005 8:06AM GMT

Supreme Court Hears Grokster Case
(washingtonpost.com)

Supreme Court Hears Grokster Case
(washingtonpost.com) 03/29/2005 11:03 PM
washingtonpost.com - The entertainment industry yesterday took its campaign to stop illegal sharing of music and videos to the U.S. Supreme Court, telling the justices that popular online services such as Grokster and Kazaa should be held responsible for the unlawful acts of their users.

Grokster File-Sharing Case Hits The
Supreme Court

Grokster File-Sharing Case Hits The
Supreme Court 03/31/2005 12:35 PM
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday from representatives of major film studios and the recording industry who are seeking to shut down peer-to-peer services they say are costing them billions of dollars. One of the questions the court kept coming back to was this: What's more important — preventing potential copyright violations or allowing the market to come up with innovative new products?

The case began when MGM and several record labels filed suit against StreamCast Networks and file-sharing network Grokster, arguing that they were intentionally created to allow people to illegally trade copyrighted material. That case was thrown out by a circuit court in August, paving the way for it to be argued in front of the Supreme Court. "The scale of the whole thing is mind-boggling," argued recording industry lawyer Donald Verrilli. "They intentionally built a network of infringing users."

News source: mtv.com

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DCIA Achieves Milestone of Fifty Members
Trade Association Looks Forward to
Supreme Court Decision in MGM v.
Grokster Case

DCIA Achieves Milestone of Fifty Members
Trade Association Looks Forward to
Supreme Court Decision in MGM v.
Grokster Case 06/17/2005 03:15 PM
The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) announced at the Washington Digital Media Conference today that it has recruited fifty Members since its inception, and expects to surpass that number by its second anniversary on July 1, 2005. [PRWEB Jun 17, 2005]

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!)

Oracle-Linked Industry Group Says DOJ
Misses Mark in Case

Oracle-Linked Industry Group Says DOJ
Misses Mark in Case 06/04/2004 06:51 PM
As it heads to court next week to try to stop Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, the Department of Justice lacks a "basic understanding" of what's happening in the market for HRM and FMS software, an industry lobbying group charges.

PM Presses Legal Case as Ukrainians Mark
New Year (Reuters)

PM Presses Legal Case as Ukrainians Mark
New Year (Reuters) 12/31/2004 10:36 AM
Reuters - Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich on Friday pursued a dogged challenge to his loss in presidential elections while Ukrainians geared up for a tumultuous New Year celebration alongside the preliminary winner.

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 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.]

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: 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 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.]

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

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

Accusations fly over Cuban Internet

Accusations fly over Cuban Internet 08/11/2004 05:07 PM
Big News Network Aug 11 2004 8:32PM GMT

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.

Cuban dissidents held at Gitmo?

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

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.

Mamma Slides as Cuban Sells

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

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

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

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