Monday, June 3, 2002

One for the good guys! This is only the first round in the fight against the entertainment industry but it's nice to see some sanity in this trial. There's a long court fight to go I'm sure. Judge: Sonicblue needn't monitor viewing. A district judge overturns a late April ruling that required the maker of ReplayTV set-top box technology to write and install software to monitor what its customers were watching. [CNET News.com] 11:53:44 AM     Everything old is new again Jack Valenti, in 1982: "We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright."   [Scripting News] 8:38:17 AM

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