[Commons-Law] Grokster Transcript PDF

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

hey lawrence read this transcript. the last statement by MGM's lawyers 
is a photocopy of the `panic` brief in lamhe case.

"Now, their rule is a rule of immunity.  It's a free pass.  It says, all 
you've got to do is speculate  about noninfringing use, and you can 
continue with  infringement, ad infinitum.  And that's not a rule that  
protects innovation; that's a rule that destroys innovation.  It 
certainly destroys the innovation that the  creators of the copyright 
law is supposed to protect, and  ......And, beyond that, Justice 
Kennedy, as you suggested, it isn't just that they get to use our 
copyrighted -- the value of our copyrighted materials as  the seed 
capital, that's the whole business.  That is the whole business.  And 
that's the reality here, and that's the problem.  They can talk about 
the hundreds of  thousands, or maybe even millions, of uses, but the 
reality is that there are 2.6 billion downloads, unlawfully, every 
month.  So what they're talking about as lawful is a tiny, teeny little 
fraction of what's really going on here." (pg 52 - 54)

why dont you to do a comparative take on these. compare the lamhe 
affidafit with these statements.

it will be fun and make some interesting comparision.....please do 
it....well production relations are now becoming a barrier to productive 
forces!! maybe dear charlie was correct afterall.....

cheers
jeeebesh


Jeebesh Bagchi wrote:

> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/06/grokster_transcript_.html
>
>
>        Wednesday, April 6, 2005
>
> *Grokster transcript PDF*
> The oral argument from last month's Grokster Supreme Court case (where 
> EFF argued that technology companies shouldn't have to imagine all the 
> infringing ways that their customers might use their products and 
> design to prevent them -- otherwise the iPod, Outlook and the Xerox 
> machine would all be illegal) is available online now as a transcript. 
> It's 55 pages long, but the type is big and double-spaced! 144K PDF 
> Link 
> <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is296a-2/s05/pdf/GroksterOA.pdf> 
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