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A Supreme Court Showdown for File Sharing
By SAUL HANSELL and JEFF LEEDS, New York Times, March 28, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/technology/28grokster.html?ex=1269666000&en=d5be63556bd61cca&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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"For someone whose business is under attack in the United States Supreme
Court, Mark Gorton was remarkably serene last week, sprawled on a couch
in his Manhattan office."
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Top court to hear landmark P2P case Tuesday (today)
By John Borland, CNET News.com, March 28, 2005
http://news.com.com/Top+court+to+hear+landmark+P2P+case+Tuesday/2100-1027-5638040.html?part=dht&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e703
"Ken Fuhrman's Colorado-based start-up company is a television junkie's
dream, making powerful home media servers to hold digitized versions of
television shows, movies and music. "
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FAQ: Betamax--tech's favorite ruling
By John Borland, CNET News.com, March 28, 2005
http://news.com.com/FAQ+Betamax--techs+favorite+ruling/2100-1027-5637912.html?part=dht&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e703
"On Tuesday morning, lawyers from Hollywood and the technology industry
will meet at the U.S. Supreme Court to argue over the fate of
peer-to-peer software. But they'll be spending much of their time
talking about the VCR."
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POINT OF VIEW: Hollywood Profits v. Technological Progress
By DORON BEN-ATAR, Chronicle.com, April 1, 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i30/30b02401.htm
"This week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in MGM Studios
Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., a suit by 28 of the world's largest entertainment
companies against Grokster, StreamCast Networks, and KaZaA -- software
companies that develop peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs."
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Report: TIME FOR THE RECORDING INDUSTRY TO FACE THE MUSIC: THE
POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORKS
By Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America,
Fellow, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, March 2005
ISSUE BRIEF
http://www.consumerfed.org/peertopeerissuebrief.pdf
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Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense
By Steven Musil, CNET News.com, March 27, 2005
http://news.com.com/Mark+Cuban+to+finance+Grokster+defense/2100-1032-5641530.html?part=dht&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e703
"Billionaire Mark Cuban has announced that he will finance Grokster's
defense against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit, which is expected to be
argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. "
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Gigs & Bytes: Kazaa Downunder
By Pollstar.com, Mar 27 2005
http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=3887
"Looks as if the Australian copyright infringement lawsuit against
Sharman Networks, makers of Kazaa, may soon come to an end."
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Copynight: Events for patent and copyright freedom fighters: Tuesday
March 29th
By Technocrat, March 26, 2005
http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=05/03/26/2330223&mode=thread
"Copynight is a monthly gathering of people interested in ensuring
freedom for artists and tinkerers, fostering innovation, and restoring
the balance between the public interests and intellectual property
rights holders for the benefit of all. We're going to have kick off
events on Tuesday, March 29, when the Supreme Court will hear arguments
about the future of file sharing."
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Music pirates choose iPods over P2P
By Jo Best, CNET News.com, March 24, 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5634177.html
"As legal music downloading takes off as never before, music pirates are
shunning peer-to-peer services in favor of using iPods to swap music."
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Pew: File swappers use iPods, IM to trade tunes
By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service, Boston Bureau, 3/23/05
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/050323pewtrade/
"Recording industry lawsuits against file swappers and P-to-P
(peer-to-peer) software companies may be forcing Internet users onto
informal networks to exchange songs and videos, according to a new study
by the Pew Internet & American Life Project."
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Report:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/101/press_release.asp
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Press Release: Ourmedia seeks to spur the citizens media revolution
By Ourmedia.org, March 21, 2005
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/729
"SAN FRANCISCO, A whos who of bloggers, scholars and citizens media
advocates today announced the launch of a new showcase for digital content."
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Univ. adopts file sharing service: Cdigix's 90-day trial begins in June
By Tom Howell Jr., Diamondback, March 15, 2005
http://www.diamondbackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/15/42367543cc822
"Tens of thousands of university undergraduates will have access to a
free legal downloading service this week as part of a pilot program
intended to decrease illegal peer-to-peer file sharing on the campus."