Fred Lohmann
Fred Lohmann
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We think this is an enormous privacy risk for users who choose to utilize it.
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It would be more of an uphill fight to justify downloading 'The Sopranos' if you're not an HBO subscriber.
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I think people are encouraged that now you have television episodes that you can download. It shows that (the industry) is finally beginning to take seriously the demand for online.
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We haven't had a case that really tests the case of whether providing an indexing service by itself an infringement.
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Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.
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Music fans deserve to know whether EMI's copy-restricted CDs are exposing their computers to security risks. When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble.
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Now that the Sony debacle is widely known, it's pretty much known that other bad guys will be looking for vulnerability in copy protection technology.
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They've sued more than 19,000 people for file-sharing, so they clearly have shown a willingness to go after regular people.
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It really shows they are becoming a grown-up company. The Internet companies are belatedly realizing that they can't ignore Washington.
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The fact that plaintiffs are using a court order to go into people's homes and collect data for them is unheard of. This is a company that has not been found guilty of doing anything wrong.
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We are all waiting very anxiously to see what is going to happen.
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There's basically no benefit from the consumer's point of view.
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This potential outcome just underscores what we've seen from the beginning. Small companies just can't afford to fight the entertainment industry, even if they might have a good case.
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This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too.