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:
> > > 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
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > !20001004  Copyrights: Lessig versus Valenti; rapper Chuck D & Napster
> > >
> > >     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>