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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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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.

Las Vegas, Nevada-World Series of Poker
Comes to Hollywood - New Hollywood
Motion Picture "Lucky You" Scheduled for
Casting and Filming in Hollywood and Las
Vegas, Soon

Las Vegas, Nevada-World Series of Poker
Comes to Hollywood - New Hollywood
Motion Picture "Lucky You" Scheduled for
Casting and Filming in Hollywood and Las
Vegas, Soon 03/14/2005 05:55 PM
Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana are set to star in "Lucky You" at Warner Bros. Story revolves around struggling singer (Drew Barrymore)who hooks up with professional poker player (Eric Bana)as he collides with his estranged father at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The casting company for the movie is currently seeking poker players and dealers for the film. Details and application forms are available on the front page of www.PokerConnection.net [PRWEB Feb 15, 2005]

Disgust

Disgust 07/17/2004 01:18 PM
You stink, therefore I am. Philosophers and psychologists have been studying the science of disgust, and its proper place in the law. Leon Kass, the chairman of the president's council on bioethics, cites "the wisdom of repugnance" in arguing against cloning. More recently, Martha Nussbaum has written a new book, "Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law," which rejects disgust as a moral guide. She has also written on the role of disgust in the mutilations of women in Gujarat.

Digital Disgust

Digital Disgust 07/14/2004 01:33 PM
Thomas Sowell on the maddening things about computer programs.

BBC's disgust survey

BBC's disgust survey 04/23/2004 12:06 PM
Test your disgust threshold by taking this photo survey. Before you look, know that you may consider some of these pictures to be disgusting. Li nk

The wisdom or capriciousness of disgust

The wisdom or capriciousness of disgust 09/04/2004 07:16 PM
Conserva tives have been talking about the Wisdom of Disgust for a long time -- most recently with regard to human cloning, but usually, of course, homosexuality. Nussbaum counters at Reason Online. (And Kimball rips her a new one at the New Criterion.)

"oh, for fuck sake. could i have any
MORE Dubya Disgust???"

"oh, for fuck sake. could i have any
MORE Dubya Disgust???" 11/03/2003 09:33 PM

Disgust over Iraq torture photos

Disgust over Iraq torture photos 05/01/2004 04:59 AM
The UK armed forces minister says if photos of British soldiers torturing an Iraqi are genuine they are "appalling".

Maverick

Maverick 06/27/2004 04:06 PM
Maverick 2.2.2 released

A Maverick Becomes the Man

A Maverick Becomes the Man 06/05/2005 10:45 PM
The chief of Archipelago Holdings is making the transition from scrappy outsider to establishment insider as he sells his business to the New York Stock Exchange.

The Maverick and His Machine

The Maverick and His Machine 02/10/2004 02:40 PM

"BBC's disgust survey includes pretty
disgusting pictures..."

"BBC's disgust survey includes pretty
disgusting pictures..." 04/25/2004 03:19 PM

BBC's disgust survey includes pretty
disgusting pictures

BBC's disgust survey includes pretty
disgusting pictures 04/24/2004 07:27 AM
Test your disgust threshold by taking this photo survey .. disgust?

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Maverick MP3 Management Utility

Maverick MP3 Management Utility 12/13/2003 01:54 PM
Maverick Initial Source Release

Maverick plugin for Eclipse

Maverick plugin for Eclipse 01/03/2005 12:43 PM
Version 0.2.1 released

J2SSH Maverick SSH Ant Task 1.1

J2SSH Maverick SSH Ant Task 1.1 05/05/2004 09:36 AM
An advanced SSH based task for the Java ANT scripting tool.

Bush Gets a Boost from Maverick McCain

Bush Gets a Boost from Maverick McCain 06/19/2004 01:12 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 19 2004 4:39AM GMT

Maverick Envoy Leaves with Sporting
Gesture (Reuters)

Maverick Envoy Leaves with Sporting
Gesture (Reuters) 05/18/2004 10:21 AM
Reuters - Living up to his maverick reputation, Spain's departing U.N. ambassador presented a Real Madrid soccer jersey to his Chinese counterpart during a Security Council meeting on Monday.

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

HBO Emerges as a Mecca for Maverick
Filmmakers (Los Angeles Times) 09/19/2004 05:53 AM
Los Angeles Times - Independent filmmakers have complained for years that Hollywood's specialized film companies have grown from artistic gamblers into cautious corporations, as former art-house heroes like Miramax Films turn to $100-million epics and splashy star vehicles.

The countdown for the extinction of CDs
is about to begin - Blog Maverick -
www.bl0gmaverick.com _

The countdown for the extinction of CDs
is about to begin - Blog Maverick -
www.bl0gmaverick.com _ 04/08/2005 05:05 AM
The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin .. explains why .. Mark Cuban

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Let the truth be told…MGM vs
Grokster - Blog Maverick -
www.bl0gmaverick.com

Let the truth be told…MGM vs
Grokster - Blog Maverick -
www.bl0gmaverick.com 03/28/2005 05:45 AM
Mark Cuban will fund Grokster vs MGM case .. Let the truth be told - MGM vs Grokster .. full statement on the matter .. heis financing the EFF .. comes out against .. has announced

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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 -
www.bl0gmaverick.com 01/02/2005 04:45 AM
a great suggestion for president Bush .. the same idea

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Maverick Seeks Small Towns for
Convergent Wireless Networks

Maverick Seeks Small Towns for
Convergent Wireless Networks 07/19/2004 01:19 PM
Seattle-area firm focuses on towns under 50,000 to bring data at affordable price: By partnering with local utilities in these smaller towns, Maverick can reduce its capital risk and focus entirely on service. The company charges $25 to $60 per month for rates from about 128 Kpbs to 1 Mbps. They may be in 23 markets by fall 2005, including their current deployments being built out in Kennewick, Silverdale, and Poulsbo. Although this brief company overview doesn't mention it, an important application for having these kinds of robust Internet connections is for Internet telephony. If you're in a rural area, "local calling" is quite local. A VoIP line from Vonage or Packet8 could dramatically decrease the charges for calling within the state as well as for long distance....

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 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.]

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.]

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.

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

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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"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

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.

Mark Cuban On The Death Of The CD

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

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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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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