Word: copyright
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...almost philosophical note: he complains that the entertainment industry has a knee-jerk instinct to try to stand in the way of technological progress. It's something the music industry has been accused of since 1908, when it went to the Supreme Court to argue, unsuccessfully, that its copyrights were being violated by player-piano rolls. More recently, in 1984, the movie studios went to the high court in an unsuccessful attempt to block Sony from selling VCRs. There's a pattern here, Napster's defenders say: copyright holders have always resisted new technology and then--as with the movie...
...Boies starts by saying copyright does not apply to noncommercial uses like Napster. The service is free, and users don't charge one another for the music. So, he argues, it isn't piracy at all. He also notes that in the VCR case, the Supreme Court endorsed the idea of "fair use"--that if a product could be used for a legal purpose (like taping TV shows to be watched at a more convenient time), the product itself was legal. Boies says Napster also relies on fair use. In addition to copyrighted songs, it offers files from...
...label approach doesn't play fast and loose with copyright laws. Napster's "directory" model sure does, even if the company claims the fault lies with users, not itself. David Boies, once the government's lead lawyer against Microsoft and now representing Napster against Big Music, wasn't there to tell the committee how he plans to find enough loopholes in the laws to keep Napster from getting stomped by the RIAA...
Zittrain made several off-the-cuff remarks about Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America who has worked to protect his industry from copyright infringement...
...suits saw was a maverick who went around claiming that they were dinosaurs who didn't get it. And when he launched the My.MP3.com service that allowed users to copy their CDs into his online folders and listen to them from anywhere they chose, those dinosaurs won a copyright-infringement court case that threatened to take the upstart dotcom for every penny...