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2002 MP3 Winners and Losers
An anonymous reader writes "MP3newswire.net is running their annual losers and winners list in digital media. Each has 8 finalists with the big winner KaZaa for becoming profitable and doubling Napster's peak traffic despite setbacks like getting briefly booted from Download.com. The big loser? No surprise, it's the RIAA who despite several wins in court have failed in their quest to stem file trading. Lawrence Lessig and Dmitry Skylarov also made the winners list, though as the article points out it wasn't exactly a great year for Dmitry."
Beautiful DMCA fearmongering... but this doesn't have anything to do with MP3s.
If you have a product that's legal in country A, but you market it to the citizens in country B where it's not, to the point that you attend a conference in country B to try to market your product, you are going to have a hard time leaving country B. Dmitry wasn't just a tourist, nor was he baited into this country by American authroities. Oh, BTW... Dmitry was freed, so maybe the courts can lead to the right result once in a while.
The rant on Scientology is totally out in left field. They publish books and qualify for copyright. Since their book isn't as old as the Bible, not's not in the public domain. Sorry, there's no exemption in the law for texts some people claim to be holy. Are you saying their books should not qualify for the same copyright protection as everybody else?
Misinformed ranting about a popular topic leads to a +5 around here? Come on mods, say it ain't so...