Cuban on Grokster case
Good take from a man in a position to know whereof he speaks….
It won’t be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get a fairness opinion from a technology oriented law firm to confirm that big music or movie studios won’t sue you because they can come up with an angle that makes a judge believe the technology might impact the music business. It will be a sad day when American corporations start to hold their US digital innovations and inventions overseas to protect them from the RIAA, moving important jobs overseas with them.
That’s what is ahead of us if Grokster loses. That’s what happens if the RIAA is able to convince the Supreme Court of the USA that rather than the truth, which is “Software doesnt steal content, people steal content,” they convince them that if it can impact the music business, it should be outlawed because somehow it will. It doesn’t matter that the RIAA has been wrong about innovations and the perceived threat to their industry, EVERY SINGLE TIME. It just matters that they can spend more then everyone else on lawyers.
As noted before, I don’t know what the smart answer is, but the first thing we should do is toss out whatever the RIAA wants because that’s positively what the right answer isn’t.
lullaby pit 
“Software doesnt steal content, people steal content”
Can I take it that you think that you are a “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” type of person? 😀
It’s interesting that the RIAA tries desperately to protect their industry at a time when the big money labels are foundering with unlistenable tripe. Popular music, by and large, is terrible lately. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been around too long at this point but there is very little to get excited about anymore. People are not ilegally trading Modest Mouse live albums, they are downloading Ashlee Simpson and Three Doors Down tunes because actually paying for the drivel is out of the question. I don’t even know anyone that still uses file sharing programs “ilegally” so this is definitely a case of the RIAA screaming “the sky is falling!” while everyone else stares and wonders what the fuss is. The genie is out of the bottle and it is not going back in no matter how much the RIAA and Lars Ulrich may wish. The corporate labels are dying and their stranglehold on distribution will hopefully die with them. Thank God.
Now if we could switch focus to destroying Clear Channel next that would be gravy.