Broadcast.com billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has announced that he will finance Grokster's defense against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit, which is expected to be argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 29.
Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion and is now president of HDNet, a provider of high-definition TV programming, wrote in a blog entry Saturday that he had agreed to fund the software company's defense after he was approached by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others.
Steven Musil. Mark Cuban to Finance Grokster Defense. News.com. March 27, 2005.
See also:
Blog Maverick. Let the Truth Be Told…MGM vs Grokster. March 26, 2005.
MercuryNews.com. Is a Software Maker or Distributor Obliged to Build Anti-theft Protections, Like Encryption, Into Its Design?. March 27, 2005. (Editorial)
Joan Biskupic. Online File Sharing to Face Judicial Test. USA Today. March 27, 2005.
P2PNet.com. Crux of Big Music's Problems. March 25, 2005.
Grant Gross. P-to-P Case May Have Far-Reaching Impact. PC World. March 25, 2005.
The Economist. Grokster and StreamCast Face the Music. March 24, 2005. (Editorial)
Julie Hilden. File Sharing Goes Before Supreme Court. CNN.com. Feb. 16, 2005.
Electronic Frontier Foundation. MGM v. Grokster archive. No date.
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Posted by K. Matthew Dames at March 28, 2005 09:00 AM | Send to a friend! | Topic(s): Business & Commerce, Community & Groups, Copyright, Entertainment, File Sharing, Law & Regulation, Multimedia, Peer-to-Peer