[d@DCC] NYT: As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court, the Messages Grow Manic

From: "tOM Trottier" <tOM _-at-_ Abacurial.com>
To: discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 05:04:57 -0500

As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court, the Messages Grow Manic

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/technology/07sharing.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=

    .......

    For groups like Public Knowledge, antipiracy tactics like the 
    entertainment industry's case against Grokster and StreamCast or 
    legislation like the Induce Act, which stalled in Congress last year 
    and which opponents argued would have stifled technological innovation 
    by making developers of file-sharing software subject to lawsuits, 
    present a morass of legal and technical nuance that is hard to reduce 
    to sound bites.  

    That is why the Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken to turning the 
    gizmos they see threatened by the Grokster lawsuit into pandas and 
    spotted owls. "That's an image," Ms. Crawford said. "They can play on 
    people's love for gadgets," although she added that it's not quite the 
    humanizing stroke one might hope for.  

    "It's an uphill battle to visualize innovation," she said.  

    The Business Software Alliance, the powerful consortium of software 
    manufacturers, might well agree with that sentiment.  

    The group clearly wants to stamp out the use of pirated software - a 
    recent study by International Data Corporation estimated that 36 
    percent of software installed on computers worldwide was pirated. But 
    it is also interested in fostering the development of new technologies 
    that, in addition to having perfectly legal uses, could also be abused 
    by pirates.   

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