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RIAA Seeks Summary Judgement Against P2P Services

Posted by timothy on from the this-hammer-is-for-evil dept.

kanad writes: "RIAA seeks summary judgement against Musiccity , Kazaa and Grokster. In other words they want the above to be banned even before the trial. RIAA accuses them as Napster clones. Read the official statement here BTW does anybody knows of 'Leonard Kleinrock' described as "one of the original founders of the Internet" in the article and an expert witness ?" I wonder whether the mimeograph machine would survive if it was invented today.

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  1. Leonard Kleinrock? by dubious9 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why is the inventor of basic packet switching an expert witness against P2P Networks? Maybe he'll claim every P2P that has uses packet switching is his IP. Hell, go after the whole internet, he "invented" it didn't he?

    He has a much stronger claim than Al Gore though :)

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  2. Re:Kleinrock by guttentag · · Score: 1, Troll
    From Kleinrock's UCLA page:
    his Host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969.
    The "first node of the Internet?" You can't have an Internet with only one node. A man who does not understand this basic concept claims to have invented packet-switching?
  3. What about Al Gore? by fabbers · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they wanted someone famous as a witness, why didn't they choose Al Gore? After all, he is the man behind the internet.