Thanks, JD
I just wanted to thank JD Lasica for dropping by this week (good timing!) as part of his Blogger Book Tour for Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation. A quick guide to his...
View ArticleHodder: Grokster Victory in 5-8 Years
Mary Hodder's analysis of the ultimate impact of Grokster is very similar to mine (The 5-8 Year Problem: Asking the Ocean To Turn Back Won't Work With Digital Media Tides).In 5-8 years, I think the...
View ArticleGoldman on Recent DOJ Warez Group Busts
Eric Goldman writes about the continued futility of the law enforcement fight against warez groups (Operation Site Down--The Latest Warez Group Bust (vintage 2005)).As I've written previously, the war...
View ArticleJuly 4 Grokster Roundup
The debate about the meaning and impact of the Grokster continues. C.E. Petit of Scrivener's Error has collected his thoughts now that the decision is a few days old (Grokster Conclusion: Everything...
View ArticleGerman Publisher's Group Pushing to Poison DNS
Constitutional Code brings some disturbing news from Germany (DNS Poisoning Requested From Providers by Rights Organisation).The German rights organisation for composers, lyricist and publishers, GEMA,...
View ArticleMeta Grokster Roundup
For future reference purposes, just thought I would put together a post with all my coverage of the Grokster decision: My Commentary HereEldred Begat Grokster Kicking the Sony Can Down the Road...
View ArticleSenior Fellow for Progress and Freedom Foundation Compares Alternative...
Derek Slater justly smacks James DeLong, a senior fellow for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, for saying that "'collective licensing or a media levy' is a euphemism for turning creativity into a...
View ArticleSamuelson on Grokster
Pam Samuelson weighs in on the Grokster decision in the forthcoming (Oct 2005) Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. Read the 7-page paper: Legally Speaking: Did MGM Really Win the...
View ArticleOpera Browser Embeds BitTorrent Functionality
Opera Watch ("the unofficial Opera blog") reports that the latest version of the Opera web browser will natively support BitTorrent (Opera Adds Support for BitTorrent). Unfortunately, Opera is a fairly...
View ArticleSenate Hearings on Grokster Decision
Public Knowledge reports that the Senate Commerce Committee will be holding a hearing on the Grokster decision on July 14. The Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness subcommittee will hold...
View ArticleSenior Fellow for Progress and Freedom Foundation Defends Comparison of...
Yesterday, James DeLong, a senior fellow for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, wrote that "'collective licensing or a media levy' is a euphemism for turning creativity into a socialist gulag" (More...
View ArticlePrediction: No Lawsuit Against Slingbox
Yesterday, the Hollywood Reporter published an article warning that the Slingbox from Sling Media (which allows you to stream video from their DVR to a computer outside the home) risks a secondary...
View ArticleBBC Blasted for Making Music Freely Available
One would think this is parody, but apparently it is not. The Independent reports that classical music labels are lambasting the BBC for making MP3s of classical music available for free download...
View ArticleAnti-Spoofing Technologies and Grokster
Ed Felten points to a report (behind a firewall) that the RIAA is making the argument that anti-spoofing technologies on P2P networks may be evidence of inducement under Grokster (RIAA Saber-Rattling...
View ArticleCoCo on German Copyright Decisions
Constitutional Code has a great roundup of information on several decisions in German courts regarding the copyfight (German File-Sharing Round-Up: TV P2P & Advertisement). One version of P2P...
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