Podcasts about grokster

In this final bonus Walled Culture podcast episode - recorded mid-2022 and kept under wraps as a special 1st anniversary episode, we welcome Fred von Lohmann, former Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Google copyright counsel. Our conversation starts with recalling how he got intrigued by copyright, crediting John Perry Barlow, and explaining how he was at the right juncture to become a tech enthusiast. Fred talks about his role at EFF during what was a unique time from a copyright perspective, characterised by pivotal court cases in the 2000s. He looks back at the impact and effects of the rights holders' battle against peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. Their fierce resistance against anything related to P2P, in his view, crippled the potential transition towards a decentralised Internet back then. He did see one silver lining from the aftermath: the P2P revolution opened music fans' eyes to what could be, pressuring the music industry to start meeting consumers' demand. Fred highlights the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) (invisible) role in shaping our daily lives. On the one hand, the DMCA gave a legal justification to rights holders' control over technology beyond the copyright realm by providing legal protections for Digital Rights Management (DRM). This has impacted various types of content, be it (now old-school) DVDs, eBooks or games. On the other, the DMCA boosted the Internet's success through the safe harbour regime, offering a shelter from the ‘open sea' with hurricanes of lawsuits. The latter troubled rights holders, leading Fred to discuss the emergence of (imperfect) copyright filters. In this context, he touches upon Google's Content ID, rights holder abuses, and the EU Copyright Directive's questionable filtering obligations. He puts forward a crucial, yet unanswered, question in this debate: “how do you build filters that are fair to users and also don't constrict creativity too much?” Finally, Fred briefly shares his insights on how copyright intersects with competition and innovation, especially in the context of software interfaces. In his closing remarks, he echoes some of Cory Doctorow's wisdom, as he emphasises the need to think about copyright's impact on fans and innovators.

Jim talks with Cory Doctorow about the ideas in his new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. They discuss Cory's long affiliation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, destroying Big Tech instead of "fixing" it, why tech lords are not evil geniuses, how Big Tech consolidated, antitrust law, the felony contempt of business model, interoperability, the high-speed shell game of digital, the kill zone, the case of Diapers.com, the falling fortunes of tech workers, defining IP, Grokster, "polite competition," automated notice and takedown, Jim's proposal for content moderation, the flexibility of fair use, Interoperable Facebook, prioritizing individual choice, and much more. Episode Transcript The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, by Cory Doctorow Craphound Pluralistic JRS EP 4 Cory Doctorow - "Radicalized," Race and Resilience Radicalized, by Cory Doctorow Red Team Blues, by Cory Doctorow "Musk and Moderation," by Jim Rutt Interoperable Facebook - EFF Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual; Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 555, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Flower Power 1: You can get a low-cal treat by sniffing Cosmos astrosanguineus, with the aroma of this sweet treat. Chocolate. 2: This popular Christmas flower comes in several different colors, but the red variety is in greatest demand. the poinsettia. 3: This "bruised" Maryland state flower is also called a yellow daisy. Black-Eyed Susan. 4: A species of this beautiful tropical flower is classified as vanilla planifolia. the orchid. 5: The term "perfect" refers to a flower that has both of these male and female reproductive organs. Stamens and pistils. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 555, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Jackie Auction 1: Can we talk? This comedienne snapped up a French painting, saying it was for her daughter Melissa. Joan Rivers. 2: A triple strand of these went for $211,500, even though they were fake. pearls. 3: Lyricist Carole Bayer Sager paid $453,500 for this piece of furniture JFK used in the White House. a rocking chair. 4: This husband of JFK's niece "terminated" the bidding for a set of Kennedy's golf clubs with $772,500. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 5: The decorator who bought this item for $48,875 said the first thing he measured with it was his sanity. a tape measure. Round 2. Category: In The News 2005 1: This country's new president Ahmadinejad may have minored in embassy hostage taking in the 1970s. Iran. 2: 12 years after approving NAFTA, Congress barely passed this trade deal opening southern markets. CAFTA. 3: On Sept. 28, 2005 he stepped down as House Majority Leader (at least temporarily) upon being indicted. Tom DeLay. 4: Napster's gone legit, but the Supreme Court ruled against this file-sharing company in MGM Studios v. it. Grokster. 5: (Hi, I'm Nancy Grace with CNN Headline News.) On a busy March 16, 2005, I reported on Scott Peterson's death sentence and this actor's murder acquittal. Robert Blake. Round 3. Category: Africana 1: The southern part of Africa is often called "Sub-" this 3 1/2-million-square-mile area. Sahara. 2: The country's name is properly pronounced "Luh-Soo-Too", but is spelled this way. L-E-S-O-T-H-O. 3: In 2000 Durban in this country hosted the 13th International AIDS Conference and the first held on the continent. South Africa. 4: A lion subspecies shares its name with these nomadic people of Tanzania and Kenya. Masai. 5: Meaning "guided one", it was the title of the 1880s Sudanese leader whose forces defeated General Gordon. The Mahdi. Round 4. Category: The Rise Of The Machines 1: This refrigerator introduced in 1918 was named for a scientist who created a temperature scale. Kelvinator. 2: Milestone machines using this type of energy include Clarence Kemp's 1891 water heater. solar energy. 3: The 880-ton Hulett ore unloaders were built for ports like Cleveland and Ashtabula along this lake. Lake Erie. 4: Barthelemy Thimmonier, an early maker of these machines, saw them smashed by a mob of angry tailors. sewing machines. 5: In computers, the ILLIAC IV pioneered the simultaneous processing of many operations, known by this geometric term. parallel processing. Round 5. Category: Washingtonians 1: Since his death in 1970, some 100 albums of this guitarist's wo

22 years later on Tuesday 10 May 2022 Apple announced the end of production for the  Apple iPod. The device had proven to be a real breakthrough digital device not just for  Apple but for the music and the technology world. The iPod turned Apple from a nearly bankrupt company to an eventual $3 trillion behemoth. After 22 years since this product was designed and manufactured its chief architect,  Tony Fadell, speaking at the Computer History Museum said “Apple iPod is the only  reason why Apple is the company it is today”.  The device inspired the creation of the iPhone. It also saved the music industry from  piracy. Before the iPod, the music industry was plagued by a bestiary of piracy services - Napster, Grokster, Gnutella, Kazaa - that enabled people to get songs for free. Partly as a  result, legal sales of CDs were down 9% in 2002. As the iPod bows out, the technology industry has to take lessons from the creation of  this revolutionary product. One of those lessons is that it is not enough to just create a  product the product has to make a difference. It's safe to say that the iPod made a difference in the music industry, the tech world, and our society. Since then no tech product has come closer to resembling what Apple created. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This newfangled Internet is so hard to use! What happened to the good old World Wide Web of the 90s. It's this damn laws and regulations, and of course, this millennial act Chris is talking about today. All you zoomers need to figure out how to use Microsoft Office and Encarta like the rest of us.Suggest talking points: The Letter K, Life on Easy Mode, DMCA, Article 17, An Incel Gets What He Deserves

IP expert Stacey Dogan joins us to discuss: the merits and demerits of trademark law, values and stock characters of IP, non-interference and design choice, antitrust and IP optimists and skeptics, BU’s new clinics and collaborations with MIT for law and innovation. This show’s links: Stacey Dogan’s faculty profile (https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/stacey-dogan/) and writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=87890) Barton Beebe, Intellectual Property Law and the Sumptuary Code (https://harvardlawreview.org/2010/02/intellectual-property-law-and-the-sumptuary-code/) Smith v. Chanel (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16887560236890964726) Stacey Dogan and Mark Lemley, Parody as Brand (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2170498) Stacey Dogan, The Role of Design Choice in Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862594) INS v. AP (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16577297531712180725), Berkey Photo v. Eastman Kodak (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9338840886663363935), Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5876335373788447272), and MGM v. Grokster (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8647956476676426155) About the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.) Kim Zetter, Federal Judge Throws out Gag Order Against Boston Students in Subway Case (https://www.wired.com/2008/08/federal-judge-t) Peter Dizikes, New Legal Program to Support Students (https://news.mit.edu/2015/support-students-business-cyber-law-0909) About the BU School of Law’s Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinic (http://sites.bu.edu/elawclinic/about-the-clinic/) And about the school’s Technology and Cyberlaw Clinic (http://sites.bu.edu/tclc/about-the-clinic/) Special Guest: Stacey Dogan.

The fall of Napster (see Part I of this series) has left a vacuum in the world of file sharing - and as the saying goes, the Internet abhors vacuum... Various File Sharing programs such as Gnutella, Kazaa and others quickly filled the void. In this episode, we'll describe Grokster's legal battle against the Record Companies, the sinister poisoning of file sharing networks by OverPeer - and the rise of BitTorrent. The post The History of File Sharing, Part 2: Grokster & BitTorrent | Curious Minds Podcast appeared first on Curious Minds Podcast.

נפילתה של נאפסטר, עליה הרחבנו בחלקו הקודם של הפרק, היתה הזרז לעלייתה של טכנולוגיית שיתוף קבצים חדשה ומשופרת: FastTrack. תוכנות כדוגמת Kazaa, Grokster, eMule ודומיהן הציפו את עולם שיתוף הקבצים. חברות התקליטים והסרטים המשיכו להלחם בהן בבית המשפט, ומשכשלו - פנו לטקטיקות מלוכלכות יותר...ואז הגיעה Bittorent, וטרפה את כל הקלפים.

Our main topic is fair use, the engine of so much cultural reuse and advancement. We’re joined by one of the doctrine’s most interesting scholars, Mike Madison. But the conversation spans: Joe’s telecomm cursing issues (0:00:36), FBiPhones and the Apple-FBI imbroglio (0:09:26), and fair use (0:28:27), including discussion of Mike’s Big Idea of social practices (0:53:03), reverse engineering, parody, video tapes, and much more. This show’s links: Mike Madison’s website, writing, and blog FCC v. Pacifica Foundation FCC v. Fox (Fox II) (containing a link to Fox I) This American Life 267: Propriety (It’s all good, but the discussion of the legal issue in Fox is at about 19:15.) Amy Davidson, The Dangerous All Writs Act Precedent in the Apple Encryption Case John Gruber, The Next Step in iPhone Impregnability Oral Argument 80: We’ll Do It LIVE! Oral Argument 42: Shotgun Aphasia (guest Orin Kerr) Orin Kerr, An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment Apple’s motion to vacate the order to assist the FBI Riley v. California (and see Orin Kerr’s post about the case shortly after it was decided About Fair Use Week Ty v. Publications Int’l (Judge Posner, giving an explanation of market substitution and fair use); see also Richard Posner, When Is Parody Fair Use? Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co. Key, lower-court cases deciding whether university course packets qualify for fair use protection: Basic Books Inc. v. Kinko’s Graphics Corp., Princeton Univ. v. Michigan Document Services, and, most recently, Cambridge University Press v. Patton David Fagundes, Market Harm, Market Help, and Fair Use Kickstarter page for Star Trek: Axanar, an independent Star Trek film (includes the twenty-minute video Prelude to Axanar) Ryan Reed, Crowdfunded 'Star Trek' Movie Facing Copyright Infringement Lawsuit; Eriq Gardner, 'Star Trek' Fans Want Paramount, CBS to Do Better Job Explaining Franchise to Court See also the unrelated and rather amazing Star Trek New Voyages, a nonprofit web series; and Paul Post, A ‘Star Trek’ Dream, Spread From Upstate New York A googol Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking; about anti-circumvention exemptions Electronic Frontier Foundation, Victory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses Michael Madison, A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Fair Use Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios Joel Hruska, How Sony’s Betamax Made YouTube and Twitch Possible Sega v. Accolade Frank Pasquale, Toward an Ecology of Intellectual Property: Lessons from Environmental Ecology for Valuing Copyright’s Commons Randy Picker, Closing the Xbox Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corp. MGM v. Grokster Jonathan Zittrain, The Generative Internet Horace Dediu, Seeing What’s Next (featuring a wonderful graph showing the adoption rates of various technologies, including the VCR); see also Derek Thompson, The 100-Year March of Technology in One Graph Eduardo Peñalver and Sonia Katyal, Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership (see also this article-length treatment) Eben Moglen, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture (“It is wrong to ask, ‘What is the incentive for people to create?’ It's an emergent property of connected human minds that they do create.”) Jennifer Rothman, The Questionable Use of Custom in Intellectual Property Michael Madison, Madisonian Fair Use Special Guest: Mike Madison.

Ask the EFF: The Year in Digital Civil Liberties Kurt Opsahl General Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation Nate Cardozo EFF Staff Attorney Mark Jaycox EFF Legislative Analyst Corynne McSherry EFF Legal Director Nadia Kayyali EFF Activist Peter Eckersley EFF Technology Projects Director Get the latest information about how the law is racing to catch up with technological change from staffers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the nation’s premiere digital civil liberties group fighting for freedom and privacy in the computer age. This session will include updates on current EFF issues such as surveillance online and fighting efforts to use intellectual property claims to shut down free speech and halt innovation, discussion of our technology project to protect privacy and speech online, updates on cases and legislation affecting security research, and much more. Half the session will be given over to question-and-answer, so it's your chance to ask EFF questions about the law and technology issues that are important to you. Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. Opsahl is the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook." In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his work on the O'Grady v. Superior Court appeal. In 2014, Opsahl was elected to the USENIX Board of Directors. Nate Cardozo is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s digital civil liberties team. In addition to his focus on free speech and privacy litigation, Nate works on EFF's Who Has Your Back? report and Coders' Rights Project. Nate has projects involving cryptography and the law, automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, electronic privacy law reform, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state. A 2009-2010 EFF Open Government Legal Fellow, Nate spent two years in private practice before returning to his senses and to EFF in 2012. Nate has a B.A. in Anthropology and Politics from U.C. Santa Cruz and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings where he has taught first-year legal writing and moot court. He brews his own beer, has been to India four times, and watches too much Bollywood. Mark Jaycox is a Legislative Analyst for EFF. His issues include user privacy, civil liberties, surveillance law, and "cybersecurity." When not reading legal or legislative documents, Mark can be found reading non-legal and legislative documents, exploring the Bay Area, and riding his bike. He was educated at Reed College, spent a year abroad at the University of Oxford (Wadham College), and concentrated in Political History. The intersection of his concentration with advancing technologies and the law was prevalent throughout his education, and Mark's excited to apply these passions to EFF. Previous to joining EFF, Mark was a Contributor to ArsTechnica, and a Legislative Research Assistant for LexisNexis. Peter Eckersley is Technology Projects Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists who watch for technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to computer users' freedoms—and then look for ways to fix them. They write code to make the Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance and censorship. They explain gadgets to lawyers and policymakers, and law and policy to gadgets. Peter's work at EFF has included privacy and security projects such as the Let's Encrypt CA, Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, SSDI, and the SSL Observatory; helping to launch a movement for open wireless networks; fighting to keep modern computing platforms open; and running the first controlled tests to confirm that Comcast was using forged reset packets to interfere with P2P protocols. Peter holds a PhD in computer science and law from the University of Melbourne; his research focused on the practicality and desirability of using alternative compensation systems to legalize P2P file sharing and similar distribution tools while still paying authors and artists for their work. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Nadia Kayyali is a member of EFF’s activism team. Nadia's work focuses on surveillance, national security policy, and the intersection of criminal justice, racial justice, and digital civil liberties issues. Nadia has been an activist since high school, when they participated in the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. Nadia is one of the creators of the Canary Watch website, which tracks and classifies warrant canaries. Corynne McSherry is the Legal Director at EFF, specializing in intellectual property, open access, and free speech issues. Her favorite cases involve defending online fair use, political expression, and the public domain against the assault of copyright maximalists. As a litigator, she has represented Professor Lawrence Lessig, Public.Resource.Org, the Yes Men, and a dancing baby, among others, and one of her first cases at EFF was In re Sony BMG CD Technologies Litigation (aka the "rootkit" case). Her policy work includes leading EFF’s effort to fix copyright (including the successful effort to shut down the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA), promote net neutrality, and promote best practices for online expression. In 2014, she testified before Congress about problems with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Corynne comments regularly on digital rights issues and has been quoted in a variety of outlets, including NPR, CBS News, Fox News, the New York Times, Billboard, the Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. Prior to joining EFF, Corynne was a civil litigator at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Corynne has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Ph.D from the University of California at San Diego, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. While in law school, Corynne published Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001). Twitter: @eff, @kurtopsahl

Panel: Ask the EFF: The Year in Digital Civil Liberties Kurt Opsahl Deputy General Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation Nate Cardozo EFF Staff Attorney Mark Jaycox EFF Legislative Analyst Yan Zhu EFF Staff Technologist Eva Galperin EFF Global Policy Analyst KURT OPSAHL is the Deputy General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation focusing on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law. Opsahl has counseled numerous computer security researchers on their rights to conduct and discuss research. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook.” In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the “Attorneys of the Year” by California Lawyer magazine for his work on the O'Grady v. Superior Court appeal, which established the reporter’s privilege for online journalists. In addition to his work at EFF, Opsahl is a member of the USENIX Board of Directors. NATE CARDOZO is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s digital civil liberties team. In addition to his focus on free speech and privacy litigation, Nate works on EFF's Who Has Your Back? report and Coders' Rights Project. Nate has projects involving automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, electronic privacy law reform, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state. A 2009-2010 EFF Open Government Legal Fellow, Nate spent two years in private practice before returning to his senses and to EFF in 2012. Nate has a B.A. in Anthropology and Politics from U.C. Santa Cruz and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings where he has taught first-year legal writing and moot court. EVA GALPERIN is EFFs Global Policy Analyst, and has been instrumental in highlighting government malware designed to spy upon activists around the world. A lifelong geek, Eva misspent her youth working as a Systems Administrator all over Silicon Valley. Since then, she has seen the error of her ways and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. She comes to EFF from the US-China Policy Institute, where she researched Chinese energy policy, helped to organize conferences, and attempted to make use of her rudimentary Mandarin skills. MARK JAYCOX is a Legislative Analyst for EFF. His issues include user privacy, civil liberties, surveillance law, and "cybersecurity." When not reading legal or legislative documents, Mark can be found reading non-legal and legislative documents, exploring the Bay Area, and riding his bike. He was educated at Reed College, spent a year abroad at the University of Oxford (Wadham College), and concentrated in Political History. The intersection of his concentration with advancing technologies and the law was prevalent throughout his education, and Mark's excited to apply these passions to EFF. Previous to joining EFF, Mark was a Contributor to ArsTechnica, and a Legislative Research Assistant for LexisNexis. YAN ZHU is a Staff Technologist with EFF. Yan writes code and words to enable pervasive encryption and protect Internet users' privacy. Besides maintainingHTTPS Everywhere at EFF, she is a core developer ofSecureDrop and founder of the Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series. In her spare time, Yan writes about the intersection of computer security and humansand tries to find interesting ways to break web applications. She holds a B.S. in Physics from MIT and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford. Twitter: @eff Twitter: @kurtopsahl

After the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 2005 that Internet file-sharing sites Grokster and StreamCast had illegally aided their customers' efforts to share pirated copies of copyrighted music and video files many commentators predicted the demise of businesses that depended on online file-sharing. But new start-ups say they have found ways to make peer-to-peer (often called P2P) file-sharing legal and perhaps profitable. Still their business plans need tweaking according to a paper published recently by Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar and two University of Washington colleagues. One suggestion: The networks should sometimes be willing to pay more than they get for content. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Special Guest Mike Yarbrough, Dave's engagement, Dave's very long bitch of the week, Judge's ruling on 4 years of molestation, Dwarf Family, Jack Abramoff, Judicial Activism, Digitally Distorted interview with Mike Szyszka, 250 Lancaster Students get suspended, Our new Myspace page, Orson, Robert Cringely's predictions, Condoms filled with flour, Trading CD's for an iPod, Allofmp3, Mentos and Coke, Google composite art, The new Camaro, Life size Lego Han Solo, Michael Johnston Live at MacWorld, Vista is everything OSX can already do, Grokster, Elmo Hack, and Tech Support Blunders.

One of the most important cases being heard before the supreme court at the moment is MGM vs Grokster. Twenty-eight of the world's largest entertainment companies brought the lawsuit against the makers of the Morpheus, Grokster, and KaZaA software products, aiming to set a precedent to use against other technology companies (P2P and otherwise). In honor thereof, i took animated some text in VDMX from an article on Salon.com by Andrew Leonard: The deeper we get into the digital age, the more we will be defined not by our relationships with physical objects but with the data that we have accumulated in our journeys through life. If we lose the right to own that data and do what we want with it, if the power of the computer, and the Net, is taken from us, we're at risk of losing a lot more than a few files -- we stand at risk of losing the evidence that tells us who we are. The track is "Run The Crowd" by The Shapeshifters taken from the SXSW music festival performing artist bittorrent.