On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Steve Schear wrote:

At 01:29 PM 7/30/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:

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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010730_chander.html

It will be very interesting if Napster decides to take Mr. Chander's suggestion and ask the court to force copyright holder's back to the table and compel them to negotiate or face an arbitrated result based on New York Times v. Tasini

I certainly hope some party acts on this. This would force Napster to recognize the rights of the copyright holder and at the same time prevent the copyright holder from being too 'exclusive' in their license grants. On a distantly related note, DirecPC has announced they're going after 'pirates' of their services. Not just the middle men (provided hardware or software) as has been the case in the past. In this example there is no middle man 'server' between the producer and consumer once the hack is setup. Therefore there isn't a single contact point between the provider and the pirates. This would seem to effectively bar such an approach for sat-tv. Would digital TVR be the 'middle man' in that case?

From a systems perspective this is a case of adding a link (edge or arc) of feedback from the distributor to the producer node (directed to undirected graph). Something that was missing previously (there is already 2-way link between consumer and distributor nodes).

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