Fred Lohmann
Fred Lohmann
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We are all waiting very anxiously to see what is going to happen.
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The fact that plaintiffs are using a court order to go into people's homes and collect data for them is unheard of. This is a company that has not been found guilty of doing anything wrong.
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This potential outcome just underscores what we've seen from the beginning. Small companies just can't afford to fight the entertainment industry, even if they might have a good case.
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This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too.
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I think people are encouraged that now you have television episodes that you can download. It shows that (the industry) is finally beginning to take seriously the demand for online.
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Music fans deserve to know whether EMI's copy-restricted CDs are exposing their computers to security risks. When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble.
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Hollywood wants to put a mark -- sort of like a mark of the beast for video content -- that says that this is MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) content, and we want to control what you can do with it.
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The DMCA has chilled the efforts of computer security researchers interested in examining copy-protected CDs.
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There's basically no benefit from the consumer's point of view.
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We haven't had a case that really tests the case of whether providing an indexing service by itself an infringement.