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Grokster Gets a Little Help

Grokster is getting some help in the MGM v. Grokster case - from Mark Cuban. Mr. Cuban owns various media interests, movies, television shows, movie distribution networks and other things related. He also owns the Dallas Mavericks, which as I am told is a game involving a ball and a wire hoop that does NOT involve ice or a puck. Huh, imagine that.

Mr. Cuban's blog entry has a more complete listing of items which he owns or has financial interest in. It's a pretty extensive list of entertainment industry companies which caused me to raise an eyebrow. Why would a gentleman such as Mr. Cuban want to help out the pure, uncut evil that is Grokster? Surely he's heard the RIAA/MPAA's claims stating that P2P software will bring about the end of the entertainment industry, leave hundreds of thousands of people in the
industry unemployed. And it makes the baby Jesus cry.

Scroll down past the vastness that is the list of Mr. Cuban's many posessions (can I call you Daddy, by the way?) and he gets to the point. Daddy actually gets it. Outlawing technology in such broad terms that the entertainment industry would like has unknown effects in the future. It's like that episode of Simpsons where Homer somehow kludges together a time machine out of a toaster, goes back in time and does various sundry things that in turn change the timeline in ways that couldn't be known to even Steven Hawking.

The point I was trying to make in the previous run on sentence is that banning technology, ney, anything, also bans the possible benefits of the anything. Stem cell reseach is a perfect example. How can we ban such promising tech when we don't know just how positive an effect it can have on the world? It's tough to argue that P2P is used for primarily legit purposes, but there are most certainly other uses for the technology that we have yet to think up, so why ban it?

Also of interest, there is a link on BITTORRENT for the MGM v.
Grokster briefs. It's a 20 meg file consisting of a large number of
briefs.

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