Grokster v. MGM March 29th

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  • Squeek
    let it snow~
    • Jan 2004
    • 14444
    #1

    Grokster v. MGM March 29th

    The Supreme Court date for the MGM v. Grokster case approaches! The most (read: only) important court case of our lives.

    The date is March 29, 2005. AKA, next Tuesday. I only care about this right now because I'm writing a paper on it (that's due tomorrow. Obviously).

    What do you all think? Obviously we all side with Grokster on this one, but I'd love to hear your reasons why. No, I won't cite you in my paper. I have to use reliable sources, not a pack of high-school chillun'

    ~Squeek
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    • tnyhwk900
      FFR Player
      FFR Simfile Author
      • May 2003
      • 4106
      #2
      RE: IT approaches...

      What's it about, and why haven't I heard about it?

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        • Squeek
          let it snow~
          • Jan 2004
          • 14444
          #3
          RE: IT approaches...

          You kids these days...

          Look, 3 years ago now, MGM Studios sued Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. for copyright infringment. Every court through the Court of Appeals has favored Grokster and StreamCast. They (MGM) basically begged the Supreme Court to hear the case even though they lost like 4 times now, and so they accepted. It'll be heard on the 29th.

          Basically, this will decide whether or not sharing files over the Internet is legal or not. I THINK IT'S KINDA IMPORTANT.

          See, when something gets to the Supreme Court, the resolve the case and make new rules for legal and illegal acts. Haven't you seen Gideon's Trumpet, where the guy got the Supreme Court to offer lawyers, psychologists, and other such professions to the Prosecution and the Defendant? Worst decision ever... "TEMPORARY INSANITY OLOL".

          Anyway, the SC will basically set the precedent for legal and illegal in file-sharing...once they actually learn what file-sharing is, of course.

          ~Squeek

          PS - something I thought of while writing this paper: Our founding fathers stole and smuggled things all the time. We stole land from the Native Americans and the Spanish. If we can't steal data, we have let our fore fathers down and shamed American history as we know it.

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            • Enigma-7
              FFR Player
              • Nov 2004
              • 184
              #4
              RE: IT approaches...

              This is terrible news.

              Stock up on simfiles now, guys, Bemanistyle is DOOMED!

              Originally posted by MrESqueek
              Vomit: "Spew a rainbow of past-digested delicacies."

              ~Squeek

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                • gardyloo
                  FFR Player
                  • Feb 2005
                  • 580
                  #5
                  RE: IT approaches...

                  when will people learn not to use horrible p2p programs?

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                    • Omeganitros
                      auauauau
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 8897
                      #6
                      RE: IT approaches...

                      Who can say?

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                        • Squeek
                          let it snow~
                          • Jan 2004
                          • 14444
                          #7
                          RE: IT approaches...

                          Uh.

                          Never?

                          Or maybe when something better comes out?

                          Do you even have a clue as to WHY P2P programs like BitTorrent exist? They were created to share legal material, such as the widespread distribution of Linux.

                          The reason this case is going to go to Grokster is because they are not responsible for the actions of their users and that the program was intended for legal purposes. The SC has ruled in favor of the "copyright infringing" company in the past many many times. When the VCR first came out, there was a lawsuit saying people could tape movies and bootleg them. Well, that wasn't the purpose of the VCR, so it was deemed legal to own a VCR.

                          Besides, Grokster's servers aren't in the US. There's no jurisdiction anyway.

                          ~Squeek

                          PS - From the looks of my posts, you can tell my paper is ownage.

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                            • Omeganitros
                              auauauau
                              • Jun 2003
                              • 8897
                              #8
                              RE: IT approaches...

                              This is way off topic, but I need somewhere to post this.

                              "I recieved a perturbing piece of junkmail from Dell today. Normally I toss the stuff reflexively, but this time my eye was drawn to the baffling phrase emblazened on its front cover in large, bold letters:

                              "Get what you want without spending what you don't."

                              It almost slips by the first time. We are all sufficiently familiar with marketing schlock to know instinctively what they must be getting at. But this time, in the back of your head, you know something is not quite right. And so you read it again, and again, and again, but the more you look at it the more you realize there is something amazingly wrong with that sentence. No matter how hard you try, once you start breaking the structure down your brain just can't make that sentence mean what it was probably intended to mean. You want to add words to the end, but you can't... that would be cheating!

                              What exactly does the phrase mean? Let's be charitable and say that it does mean SOMETHING. As far as I can tell, Dell exists in some parallel universe where things you don't want are exchanged as currency in a sort of barter system. But you will not have to spend your precious unwanted items in order to buy a Dell. No, they just take money. How convinient! Thanks, Dell!"

                              Anyways, yes, your paper will "rock hard," Squeek.

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