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The countdown for the extinction of CDs
is about to begin - Blog Maverick -
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The countdown for the extinction of CDs
is about to begin - Blog Maverick -
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The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin .. explains why .. Mark Cuban

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

Thank you, Donald - Blog Maverick - The
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Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald" .. Mark Cuban gets personal .. smacks down

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Do the Right Thing - Cancel Inauguration
Parties - Blog Maverick -
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Do the Right Thing - Cancel Inauguration
Parties - Blog Maverick -
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a great suggestion for president Bush .. the same idea

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"Let the truth be told - MGM vs
Grokster"

"Let the truth be told - MGM vs
Grokster" 03/29/2005 04:56 AM

pt’s “How-To”
Tuesday…How to play purchased
music on other systems… -
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pt’s “How-To”
Tuesday…How to play purchased
music on other systems… -
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How to play purchased music on other systems€¦ .. How To Break iTunes DRM .. step-by-step

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BUSH LIED TOLD THE TRUTH! A UK

BUSH LIED TOLD THE TRUTH! A UK 07/08/2004 12:04 PM
Glenn Reynolds .. we learn this .. Instapunit .. right

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Media lawyer's bl0g from Grokster
hearings

Media lawyer's bl0g from Grokster
hearings 03/30/2005 04:32 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Media Access Project's Harold Feld attended yesterday's Grokster hearing and has blogged his impressions of the proceedings:

Don Virelli led off for the recording industry. He began with the assertion that Grokster's P2P software has no legitimate uses. The justices reacted skeptically. "Didn't the court below find lots of legitimate uses, such as distribution of public domain works or distribution of works authorized by the rights holders, even if the vast majority of traffic was arguably infringing?" Virelli stuck to his guns, thus falling prey to the trap that has undermined industry so many times in this fight: they over sell.

Scalia then started in on innovation: "But what about inventors? How will they know what people will use this for? Do they get a free ride for a few years to see if the predominant use is infringing or non-infringing?" Again, Virelli went too far. "In reality, these people don't get sued just for inventing stuff" he claimed, while the entire bar section rolled its eyes. Again, the Justices weren't buying. "Inventors need certainty they won't be sued or they won't invent," said Breyer.

Link (Thanks, John!)

The New York Times > Washington
> Campaign 2004 > Truth Be Told,
the Vietnam Crossfire Hurts Kerry More

The New York Times > Washington
> Campaign 2004 > Truth Be Told,
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Wilgoren quoted him .. scrambling to salvage .. dubious

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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!)

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads 09/01/2004 06:10 AM
open letter to John Kerry .. offered

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The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1

The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1 11/03/2003 06:39 AM
Miles from 'fair and balanced' .. Media Matters column .. fair

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car-laons.conjuratia…

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So Chalabi knew we had broken the
Iranian code and he told them. According
to an intercepted cable, the american
who told him was drunk

So Chalabi knew we had broken the
Iranian code and he told them. According
to an intercepted cable, the american
who told him was drunk 06/02/2004 07:58 PM
gave an important, specific secret to Iran .. NY Times reports

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New Ways to Skirt DMCA & hellip;
Legally!

New Ways to Skirt DMCA & hellip;
Legally! 10/29/2003 09:09 AM
The U.S. Copyright Office gives consumers the right to work around certain provisions of the controversial law. Digital-rights advocates worry the exemptions don't go far enough. By Katie Dean.

"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..."

"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..." 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

Wired News: New Ways to Skirt DMCA
… Legally!

Wired News: New Ways to Skirt DMCA
… Legally! 10/30/2003 06:01 AM
American congress has ruled that it is legal to get around copyright protection schemes if your intended use is covered under the definition of fair-use .. New Ways to Skirt DMCA Legally!

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On scientific truth and Christian
truth...

On scientific truth and Christian
truth... 07/16/2004 06:40 AM

In the middle of an article about the way that the religious right have interfered with scientific work in the US, I find a troubling paragraph:

At a time when biology is poised to undergo a fundamental revolution, the US government, arguably the most potent government in the history of the world, is rife with White House appointees who believe that scientific truth and Christian truth cannot be synonymous, and may well be in opposition.

I ask myself - do I believe that scientific truth and Christian truth can be synonymous? My answer - no. I ask myself - do I believe that they may well be in opposition? My answer - yes. The only difference between me and the people from the religious right then, is that we disagree with which 'truth' is the more reliable. I stick on the side of the people who test their conclusions and refine their belief systems with reference to evidence - they stick to the side of the people who believe that a magic being sets bushes on fire and turns women into salt.

So the scary bit for me is not that the nutters in power believe that the two are incompatible, but that the assumption is that for reasonable, normal, run-of-the-mill scientists all across America that it's normal to be able to reconcile meteorology with the concept of rains of blood and biology with people who bring people back from the dead...

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Bush Gets a Boost from Maverick McCain

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Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood
disgust

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

HBO Emerges as a Mecca for Maverick
Filmmakers (Los Angeles Times)

HBO Emerges as a Mecca for Maverick
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Maverick Envoy Leaves with Sporting
Gesture (Reuters)

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Gesture (Reuters) 05/18/2004 10:21 AM
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Maverick Seeks Small Towns for
Convergent Wireless Networks

Maverick Seeks Small Towns for
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"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..."

"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..." 08/12/2004 08:05 AM

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow 08/20/2004 10:56 AM
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow .. Larry Thurlow responds to attacks from the Kerry campaign .. Instead Thurlow has spurned this dishonorable honor

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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

Big Win for Grokster

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

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"MGM et. al. v. Grokster"

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

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 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 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...
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