David Boies
David Boies
David Boiesis an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
thinking important napster
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
home audio copying
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
simple shade complicated
It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
technology data people
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
divorce totally
This summer, we're going to totally divorce Sun.
agencies court positions shut trying willing written
What is going on is AIG is trying to shut down the Starr agencies as competitors, and that AIG is willing to take positions in court that are inconsistent with written contracts, and internally inconsistent.
word
What is it about the word 'concerned' that you don't understand?
company likely potential
What company is most likely to be a potential entrant for operating-system competition?
absence admitted afraid choice consumers credible depriving hurt monopoly prices raising reason view whether witnesses wrong
Whether you think their witnesses are credible or non-credible ... they've admitted monopoly power, they've admitted the absence of competitive constraints, they've admitted raising prices to hurt consumers, they've admitted depriving consumers of choice and they've admitted that the reason that they did that was because they were afraid that consumers would in their view make the wrong choice, which is the non-Microsoft choice,
browser company comparing mean producing share somebody winning
Well, if you're winning browser share, that must mean that some other company is producing browsers and you're comparing your share of browsers with somebody else's share of browsers, ... Is that not so, sir?
telling understand
You don't? ... Is that what you're telling me? You don't understand what that means?
invent
You didn't invent or fabricate it, did you?
continue driven energy gas historic natural prices reason scarcity sell
The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs.
january view
Was that your view on January 6, 1999?