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March 29, 2005
Mark Cuban's new cause
Mark Cuban is paying for Grokster's legal defense as it goes before the Supreme Court later today to argue a landmark case about peer-to-peer networks. It's a case not totally unlike a case 20 years ago about the then-burgeoning VCR industry.
On his blog, Cuban writes:
It wont be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get a fairness opinion from a technology oriented law firm to confirm that big music or movie studios wont sue you because they can come up with an angle that makes a judge believe the technology might impact the music business. It will be a sad day when American corporations start to hold their US digital innovations and inventions overseas to protect them from the RIAA, moving important jobs overseas with them. Thats what is ahead of us if Grokster loses.
That's quite a statement from someone who's a content owner (and a wealthy one). But then again, that's why Mark Cuban has a devoted following.
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