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“Imposing on innovators, such as Intel, an obligation to anticipate potential uses of their innovations, to correctly guess which uses will predominate, and then to design their technologies to prevent infringing uses (even if it were technically and practically feasible to do so) would stifle innovation and dramatically increase the cost of such technologies and of the consumer and enterprise products based on those technologies.”

Intel threw its support behind Grokster earlier this month when it submitted the “Amicus Brief” to the Court for Grokster to use in its defence.

On a side note to Intel, I’m sorry for bashing your products, but I’m still going to buy AMD wherever possible.

Link. (Thanks mtekk!)
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Forget Star Wars premieres. A seat at the MGM Studios v. Grokster Supreme Court hearing Tuesday morning was the hottest ticket in town.

I wish I could have been there. Oh well, you can get a round up of what went on during the hearings today from Wired News as well as an article about the people who waited in line.

Link to summary article.
Link to article about those who waited.

I’m 17!

In other news the Grokster case Supreme Court hearings start today.

Today is the last day to claim free iTunes downloads.

Get on over to mtekk.blogspot.com and wish my buddy mtekk a happy birthday.

I had posted before about the EFF’s collective liscensing proposal to ensure that artists get paid for music downloads without making P2P illegal, but I forgot to post a link to the proposal.

Link to proposal.
Link to old post.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been doing daily updates to a list of devices that will become illegal if things go bad MGM v. Grokster. The Grokster case, which will begin Supreme Court hearings on March 29th, is essentially a test of the 1984 Betamax rulling. The Betamax rulling decided that copying technologies could not be considered illegal (as being able to encourage copyright infringement) as long as they had substantial non-infringing uses. If MGM wins this lawsuit, the Betamax case will be null and void. The list posted by the EFF is an effort to raise awareness about just what can be effected by this case.

Link.

Just to make clear, I don’t like Britney Spears. But I thought I should do another post about her to warn you of her tricky music backmasking.

Listen to this clip from Britney’s song “Hit me baby one more time”

Now listen to the same clip in reverse.

If you didn’t catch that: the second clip said, “sleep with me I’m not too young.” I wasn’t the first to discover this. I found it on the website badmouth.net (not the type of site I would recommend visiting), but I have tested it independently to ensure that the clip is valid.

Note: If anybody from badmouth.net sees this, I’m sorry for deep linking your files, but I didn’t think that my visitors would like to visit your site and you were the only place I could find that had the clips hosted.

Cry.on.my.console, the same guy who did “Super Galang Galang”, has done another “Galang” mash up, this time with Britney Spears and Madona’s song “Me against the music” called “ME against some really good music.”

Technically neither of these mashups are really new, but they’re new to me.

I know you liked M.I.A’s “Galang” (or maybe you didn’t, whatever), but “Superlangalang” is just awsome. How can you not like a mash up of the “Super Mario Brothers Theme” and “Galang”?

I just found out that my blog has been upgraded to WordPress 1.5. I got some new features including one that I really like called Pages. Basically it allows me to create custom pages like this one seperate from my normal blog posts. I’m sure there are other cool features. I’m going to have to look into it to see what all I can do now.