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By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0000

A-men.

We’re legitimate content creators and we’re starting to benefit from P2P by offering consumers free viewings of our ad-supported videos, which look better than half of the comparable content on traditional TV.

Who’s the loser in this P2P application? How could this ever harm “Hollywood”? Other than a little competition, God forbid.

The notion that the Supreme Court could possibly outlaw one of our most promising long-term opportunities is…well…BEYOND “frightening”.

In short, monopolies often get fat and lazy. Evidently, facing competition head-on is too much work; they need the government to protect them from free market forces, and if they can pretend that their own business interests are somehow tied to the public good, they might have a shot.

If it weren’t so true, it would be laughable.

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0000

You know Mark, you hit the nail on the headl. It’s a sad day when mega corporations step in and decide what should be legal or illegal. Now, I don’t have a degree in political science or anything, but from what I understand, the will of the people is what should decided what is legal or not in a democratic society. Perhaps Europeans are right. American’s are a bunch of idiots. We run around screaming things like “freedom” and “free speech” but rarely do we exercise that “freedom” anymore. More and more the American public is allowing their elected officials (whose pockets are being lined by Big Business) to take away more and more of our freedoms.

First, it was the DMCA which took away a persons right to innovate. Like the college professor and his team that cracked Adobe’s encryption scheme to demonstrate that it was flawed and really offer no protection. Instead of being thankful that someone had shown the flaw in their program, which in turn could be correct to make it safer, they instead opted to be one the first companies to enact the DMCA. They threatened legal action, based on the DMCA, for things like copyright infringement, reverse engineering, stealing trade secrets and the like. All because this professor and his team wanted Adobe to know that their encryption didn’t work and wanted to make suggestions about how to make it better.

Then came Oct. 24, 2001 and the passage of the USA Patriot Act. The USA Patriot Act is a wholly unconstitutional piece of legislation that violates a number of Amendments (First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth). The Patriot Act was passed during a time when the country was attacked by terrorist. It was written and passed into law in around 45 days without debate or hearings.

One of the biggest problems with the Act is that it allows the FBI to monitor (read Spy) on people, American citizens, without probably cause. That means the FBI can do wire taps, read your email, monitor your web habits, follow you around, look at your library records and your medical records, etc. etc. without a court order and without just cause. Oh, and they can also do a search and seizer without a warrant if they feel it MIGHT help an investigation. They can now detain people for unlimited amounts of time, with reason, without warrant, without court permission, and without a trial date.

It’s a sad day in America. You think you are free, you send your sons and daughters and fathers half way around the world to die so someone else can live in a free society but you don’t even recognize that your freedoms are being stripped away one by one.

Peace.

Mitchell

USA Patriot Act Links:
http://bernie.house.gov/civil_liberties/index.asp

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12126&c=207

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/PATRIOT/

DMCA Links:
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/

anti-dmca.org/

chillingeffects.org/

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0000

The DMCA reaches too far, agreed. P2P networks do need to be held accountable for their content though, remember Napster dragging on for months that it was impossible to control what was available through their service, that was bull.

Look at what happened with bittorrent, the leading sites shut down and a constant crackdown, of course new ones are always springing up and IRC/newsgroups are always around, but suprnova (etc) going cut down on alot of BT traffic.

But that’s the problem, media companies (more importantly, the consumer) need a solution, not just a ‘fix’ of stifling p2p.

Macrovision has the CDS family, this copy protects music files AND allows you to drag and drop your tracks onto your PC. Your cd can still be played in 99.9% of cd players too. How long before DVDs get this way?

Is HD-DVD/Bluray going to have any decent form of copy protection? the worrying thing is hearing some of these execs say “oh it’s 50GB, nobody will transfer that amount over the internet”. They seem oblivious to the fact that technology changes, very rapidly…maybe they hope if they ignore it long enough, it’ll go away?

I remember reading somewhere about your desire to start a digital music company, what happened with that?

By: Peatey

Peatey — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0000

Mark Cuban, I call YOU to action to donate $100 million to independent public education about this matter. Let them know that you respect the rights of the content industry, but that protecting innovation is more important.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0000

Beautifully written by Mark, but I disagree to an extent. The point of the matter is that P2P in the form of Kazaa or BitTorrent, regardless if the creators or others would admit it, was geared towards anonynomous file sharing via file content searching. By common sense, we all know that 99% of the users and traffic taken up by P2P in the consumer space is used to share and retrieve protected content (and for those who don’t know, P2P of this sort takes up the most traffic in consumer Internet usage – beyond even e-mail, or web surfing! I know, I work at an ISP and analyze traffic usage data). If we are talking about the conceptual benefits of P2P as in file transfer from one client to another with locations as the agents of definition rather than the content, then Hollywood wouldn’t care – and in fact, this “P2P” technology already exists – it is merely regular file transferring. Just because P2P network can be used for legitimate purposes, these uses are merely, in my opinion, pleasant unexpected side effects; we should not use it as an argument. Long story short, the P2P networks we see now is a DIRECT consequence for the want to get, otherwised paid content, for free and was developed so. I feel that Hollywood has an absolute right to be concerned because the 1/10th of 1 percent that their content represents of all digital files is much more than that when you count it as the percentage of what they produce…I mean, what movie or music can not be had nowadays on P2P?

What I do agree with Mark (as he has wrote before) is that Hollywood is handling it all wrong. Instead of lawsuits, they should think of new business models to take advantage of the new technology. They should embrace and twist it to an acceptable model rather than shy away from it and try to kill it – because if they do, they would loose the opportunity to truly utilize technology to better the experience of their customers. Hollywood (if looked at as a whole) is pretty much a “monopoly” of sorts. They earn more than enough (look at how much those movie stars and studio execs make) and is, of course, reluctant to change a good thing. Technology has played a hand in “breaking up” this monopolisitic behavior, and as such, the government should realize it and not make a grave mistake in limiting the affects of technology as a catalyst for innovation and change.

By: Frank Ruscica

Frank Ruscica — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0000

What is needed, then, is content that 1) the creators would *thrill* to see distributed via P2P, and 2) catalyzes the creation of good jobs in the immediate term.

Enter Land of OpportuniTV, a startup comedy about making America the Silicon Valley of customized lifelong learning and career services, the global market that Peter Drucker says will be the biggest over the next 30 years.

Details are coming online at http://www.opportuniTV.com

Some reviews:

“Frank [Ruscica, creator of Land of OpportuniTV], you are a good man. Have you thought about joining this team? Your only alternative, of course, is venture capital. But their usual models require getting rid of the ‘originator’ within the first eighteen months. With Netscape it took a little longer, but you get the idea.”

Randy Hinrichs
Manager, Learning Sciences and Technology Group
Microsoft Research
December 1998

“Hi Frank, Thanks for your time today. If you would like to provide us with further information about your [business plan for a CLLCS startup], we would be happy to review it in more detail.”

Tristen Langley
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
June 30, 2004

“I just spent about an hour surfing around [the business plan] with a bit of amazement. I run a little company…We are a team of folks who worked together at Amazon.com developing that company’s personalization and recommendations team and systems. We spent about 1.5 years thinking about what we wanted to build next. We thought a lot about online education tools. We thought a lot about classified ads and job networks. We thought a lot about reputation systems. We thought a bit about personalized advertising systems. We thought a lot about blogging and social networking systems. Eventually, we came up with the idea behind 43 Things.

…I guess I’m mostly just fascinated that we’ve been working a very similar vein to the one you describe, without having a solid name for it (we call it ‘the age of the amateur’ or ‘networks of shared experiences’ instead of CLLCS, but believe me, we are talking about the same patterns and markets, if not in exactly the same way). Thanks for sharing what you have – its fascinating stuff.”

Josh Peterson
Co-Founder/CEO
The Robot Co-op
December 12, 2004

By: dan

dan — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:02:23 +0000

Your points are well taken however-you surprised me at the end by your “Call to Action”
We are dealing with a Supreme Court that put “W” in office.
We now have “W” for another four years!If MGM vs Grokster goes MGM’s way. Just imagine what the Supreme courts decisions will look like after “W” gets a couple of his appointees in the Supreme court!
Trying not to get too political but-Did you think about that when you voted for him?