Mark Cuban on the DMCA

From: Jason Young <jyoung _-at-_ lexinformatica.org>
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 03:10:05 -0400

C|Net interview with Mark Cuban
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-912395.html?tag=fd_nc_1

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Speaking of dot-coms, where do you think the next big burst of 
Internet innovation will come from?

I don't think it's here or on the horizon, and that's a big problem. 
The growth of technology over the last 20-plus years has been based 
on a technology creating a competitive advantage for businesses of 
all sizes. PCs, software, LANs, WANs, e-mail, collaboration, Web 
sites, Web-based transactions, wireless LANs--those were all things 
every business could benefit from and quickly and easily identify 
productivity or competitive advantages from their investments. 
Unfortunately for many companies and the stock market, we have 
reached points of diminishing returns. Going from 1GHz to 2GHz PCs 
doesn't mean anything to 98 percent of corporate users. Going from 
100MB per second Ethernet to 1 gigabyte per second or 10 gigabytes 
per second Ethernet doesn't mean anything to 98 percent of 
applications.

I had hoped it would be ultrabroadband to the home. But I don't see 
that happening now. When we get 100MB per second or more to our 
homes, then bandwidth-hogging applications that leverage video and 
data can start to come to fruition. Medical applications, watching 
and monitoring patients from home, with the inherent insurance cost 
reductions could lead the way if it happens. Unfortunately, it's a 
huge if because of the politics of today. The home-based 
bandwidth-consumption applications--in particular music--that could 
have driven consumers to buy broadband, which would drive the profits 
that will lead to investment that will lead to the innovations that 
will drive price points to make ultra-broadband to the home viable, 
will never happen. Our government will screw it up by taxing all 
technologies to protect the entertainment industries.

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