IP: Re: Sega tries to censor hacker discussions of Dreamcast system

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 23:59:11 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Pamela Jones <pmljn19@mindspring.com>
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>Dave:
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>There's no need to rely on this account.  The entire debate is up at
>Harvard's Berkman site here:
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/futureofip/archive.asp
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>You need RealPlayer to view it, but you can download off their site, if you
>wish.
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>Questions from audience are also logged there, if anyone wants to read them.
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>IANAL, but I think it's worth pointing out that Napster's case is based on
>the position that using Napster is *not* illegal, because of fair use,
>among other reasons.  The technology involved isn't one person sharing with
>millions;  it's one person to another person...  Just like you do when
>sharing your CDs with friends, who then might pass them on to others, all
>of which is perfectly legal.  It's peer-to-peer sharing, which is, by
>definition, one on one.  You can read an interview with Boies, in which he
>explains his strategy, in Wired:
>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/boies.html.
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>I have no angle here, no ax to grind, and no hard drive full of Napster
>downloads. My interest is just accuracy.  I took the time to watch the
>debate, and I would have written a very different account.
>
>Pamela Jones
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>At 10:32 PM 10/6/00 -0400, you wrote:
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> >>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 21:14:01 -0400 (EDT)
> >>From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
> >>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
> >>Subject: Re:  IP: Sega tries to censor hacker discussions of Dreamcast
> >>     system
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> >>Dave,
> >>         Here is something I recently sent out over PATNEWS about music,
> >>copyrights and the Internet.  Feel free to send it out over your list.
> >>Greg Aharonian
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> >>!20001004  Copyrights: Lessig versus Valenti; rapper Chuck D & Napster
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> >>     Last Sunday and Monday, I had a chance to sit in on an interesting
> >>debate between Prof. Lawrence Lessig and Jack Valenti over the future
> >>of copyrights and intellectual property on the Internet (given at the
> >>Harvard Law School on Sunday) followed the next day by a talk by the
> >>rapper Chuck D on copyrights, music, the Internet and Napster.  What
> >>follows below are my best attempts to capture the gist of what they
> >>said, all quite interesting.
><snip>