From: Ian Andrew Bell (chimp@ianbell.com)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 15:06:09 PDT
Well, there's a deeper irony here.
If CNN hadn't put the URL here, would they not be in moral contravention of
the separation of church and state that is so famously supposed to exist,
within news organizations, between management and editorial? Arguably, we
could just as easily be criticizing them for that.
Me, I get captivated by the irony that by suing Napster via the RIAA, they
are functionally protecting technology that was/is clearly being developed
within AOL/Time-Warner by the Nullsoft folks.
I think that the fact that AOL is allowing Nullsoft to portray themselves
as "nihilistic media terrorists", and that this proclamation has only
emerged in the wake of damage control after the GNUtella release, is more
than just a little contrived.
-Ian.
At 10:15 PM 25/08/00 +0000, DaveNet email wrote:
>DaveNet essay, "Time-Warner steps in it, again", released on 8/25/2000;
>3:09:03 PM Pacific.
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>***A damning chain
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>Here's a CNN story.
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>http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/23/decss.part2.idg/index.html
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>Scroll to the bottom.
>
>There's a pointer to a site where you can download the DeCSS software.
>
>Now, follow this trail.
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>CNN is a Time-Warner company.
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>As is Warner Brothers Pictures.
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>Warner Brothers Pictures is a member of the MPAA.
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>Which won a case on 8/17/00, where this act was the matter in question.
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>(I kept a screen shot in case the page is modified.)
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>***This is round two
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>In July, while Time-Warner, as part of the RIAA, was suing Napster for
>facilitating user-sharing of MP3s, AOL, which is in the process of merging
>with Time-Warner, was running a search engine that did the same thing.
>
>Now the movie industry sued a website for pointing to DeCSS software, and
>won, and a week later they're doing the same thing.
>
>This hypocrisy is making a joke of the US Constitution. If the litigants
>can't keep their own act clean, how dare they sue others to stop what is
>clearly an expression of free speech.
>
>Dave Winer
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>PS: Thanks to Ravi Nanavati for the pointer.
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