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Grokster Case Aftermath: Busy times Ahead for EFF

Posted by Hemos on from the but-of-course dept.

Tractorjector writes "Mad Penguin has published part two of their MGM vs Grokster interview series (the first part was featured on Slashdot on 2005-06-27). This time the focus is on EFF Director Shari Steele. A very compelling (and somewhat concerning) interview."

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  1. EFF is great! by tetrahedrassface · · Score: 4, Interesting
    We need to top piracy, but we should also encourage authors/songwriters/performers/composers, to do what the BBC did the other day.. Namely release a copyrighted work for personal use..

    Sure there were strings attached but when isn' there?

    I really don't understand why these companies think thier stuff is the only media to be had. They think they have us over a barrel, and currently they do..

    As a community we should shun copyright infgringement, but at the same time we should encourage the copyright holders to release their material for personal use..

    Thats how I do my stuff.. My songs are copyrighted, or CC, but they have "no profit" without permission clause.. You are free to have them as long as you don't sell them.. Its really really simple.

    Since I started posting my little songs up on the net I have contacted by BMI.. I am going to join, but only because they can help me if an artist took something i have written and recorded it/ changed it. etc and proffited without compensation or permision from me..

    I need the EFF to ensure that I have the right to make my stuff available. They fight the good fight for us honest little people.

    Long the the EFF!

  2. Re:How to increase Linux penetration by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But people need to think they beat the system! heck, I keep a Windows 95 CD with the serial written on the disk just the the sake of remembering the pleasure I had in the mid-90s when I though that, after all, I didn't pay for the steaming pile when I finally ditched it (which, incidentally, probably helped me ditch it earlier: if I had paid for it, I'd probably have put up with it much longer than it deserved).

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  3. Re:How to increase Linux penetration by Daengbo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That quote is BS, at lest in Thailand. Piracy is in the high 9x% (98.5 a few years ago), and Linux is huge there. Heck, my brother-in-law told me that he wants Linux because the Prime Minister uses it and says that Windows is old technology. You can't walk into a subway newsstand without seeing Linux for sale.

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