One of the most succinct briefs submitted by amici to respondents in the MGM v. Grokster case was authored by a team of CS professors. The crazy thing is that an earlier post of mine pretty much summarizes their argument. Which isn't to say I'm special in any way - the ideas present in both pieces are basic knowledge to all computer scientists. The main point is that the Internet, and every type of communication the Internet allows, is content neutral. When organizations say they have a problem with file sharing, they should blame this content agnostic nature of the Internet, not file sharing companies. Unfortunately, though they either aren't keen enough or willing to pick up on this, they are trying to lock down new digital platforms so they can avoid 'problems' in the future.
Posted by Susheel Daswani at March 02, 2005 12:45 PM | TrackBack