Technology Nightmare

It very well could be if the Supreme Court goes with the Hollywood and music industries. A suit has been filed against peer to peer networks like Grokster and many others. If it goes against them they will be held liable for any copyright infringement that happens on their networks. They have until the end of February to respond. The following is an excerpt from Leo Laporte's Laporte Report,

"The court is considering whether to overturn the 20 year old precedent in Sony vs Universal Pictures that made the VCR possible despite its potential for use in copyright infringement. At stake, not only the future of file sharing networks, but many consumer electronics devices like CD and DVD recorders, Tivo, and more. This will be one of the most important decisions from the Supremes all year."

Leo summed it up very well. If this does go through technology could be held back for many, many years.

Now on to more pleasant and happy things. Two packages arrived today, one at Hammond Home Base in Dennison and the other here at Alpha Geek Central in Athens.
The one the arrived here was my order from Amazon.com. It consisted of the following books (all geek books too):

TechTV's Mod Mania with Yoshi : A Guide to Customizing Your Computer and Other Digital Devices



Leo Laporte's 2005 Technology Almanac



Wil Wheaton's

Dancing Barefoot



Just a Geek



Now the package that arrived at Hammond Home Base. It was a package from Apple. You know those computer people. Well I bought my brother an iPod Shuffle.



Yes my brother is now a proud owner of a piece of technology I have not even got to play with yet. I talked to him this evening and he is enjoying it.

Well that is all from my realm, until next time, I'll click ya later.


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