John Young
Ever the optimist and the wit, John writes on dvd-discuss today:
It was Seth Schoen joining EFF that caused the flood of articles and editorials in recent days questioning the DMCA and Dmitry's arrest. A technical wizard teamed with the implacable legal attackers must have shaken the copyright industry.Today's Wall Street Journal has an op-ed taking issue with Jack Valenti's stance on copyright, and advocates that MPAA cease and desist its losing game against digital piracy and get on with making piles of money deploying tools that take advantage of easily available content as evidenced by the movie-via-Internet initiative.
And yesterday the Washinton Post editorialized in favor of reassessing the adverse impact of DMCA and coming up with improved legislation. Today CNN. And who else has been mentioned here?
Is Judge Kaplan reading all this and wondering how to plug the growing leak in his dike? Or did his August 17 nervous revisionism get leaked to the media? Seth did you hack the judicial intranet?
and then
Excuse me, I meant to write that it was James Tyre leading and Wendy Seltzer undergirding the Felten attack, being paid a tad less than the $1.2 million fee paid so far in 2600's case, that turned the tide. How can the miserly copyright industry compete with limitless resources of invaluable intellectual treasure?
I'll just say that I've been having a very nice time at EFF this week, thank you.
