Grokster Briefs demonstrating the point of p2p
A cool new (or I think they're new) organization, outragedmoderates.org has posted a BitTorrent link of all the briefs filed in the Grokster case.
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Another interesting application of legal P2P via BitTorrent is http://www.legaltorrents.com/. Legal Torrents is geared towards media (music/books/movies) but provides some interesting collateral for claims made by various industry associations that P2P is solely the breeding grounds of pirated property.
Tried it and it's not quite up to speed yet. Dropped a line to the Google folks with a url for it... Maybe they could do it better? It would be nice to get several search companies n on this type of search.
Prof. Lessig, thanks for linking to the Grokster briefs torrent and my site (I'm taking a screenshot, which I will attempt to use for extra credit when I take "Computers and the Law" next year). Since Saturday, over 170 people have downloaded the Grokster briefs, which adds up to over 378,387 pages of court documents downloaded over the weekend (yes, I counted them).
Here are two new torrents related to Grokster:
Betamax Legal Documents
Torrent Link: http://24.90.150.65:6969/torrents/Betamax_Legal_Docs.torrent?191214519641D9E311B80FD99E94510D4745637C
Contents: Court documents and amicus briefs from the Supreme Court's 1984 Betamax decision
Size: 4.7 MB
Files: 42 files (41 pdfs, 1 source info word document)
Source: the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Betamax case document archive (http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/betamax)
Betamax mp3s
Torrent link: http://24.90.150.65:6969/torrents/Betamax_mp3s.torrent?44AF47A0E9A3EEAC181CE21BC59EB3E49AAFA582
Contents: mp3s of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court's 1984 Betamax decision
Size: 52.7 MB
Files: 3 files (2 mp3s, 1 source info word document)
Source: the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Betamax case document archive (http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/betamax)
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This case reminds me far too much of the Trial of Hank Rearden...
Commission on Intelligence Capabilities WMD report
Torrent Link: [URL=http://www.prodigem.com/torrents/download/thadanderson/thadanderson-WMD_Report.torrent]http://www.prodigem.com/torrents/download/thadanderson/thadanderson-WMD_Report.torrent[/URL]
Size: 6.4 MB
Contents: the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities WMD report; [b]and[/b] the "Key Findings" section from the Duelfer CIA report on Iraq WMD; the "Conclusions" section from the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Iraq; the 45 PowerPoint slides on WMDs Colin Powell presented to the UN on 2/5/03; and the Forged Iraq Uranium documents cited by President Bush during the 2003 State of the Union Address
[URL=http://www.outragedmoderates.org/default.asp#Intel_Capabilities]Source info[/URL]
I apologize for the bad code on the above post.
Commission on Intelligence Capabilities WMD report and other key WMD documents
Torrent Link:
http://www.prodigem.com/torrents/download/thadanderson/thadanderson-WMD_Report.torrent
Size: 6.4 MB
Contents: the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities WMD report; -and- the "Key Findings" section from the Duelfer CIA report on Iraq WMD; the "Conclusions" section from the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Iraq; the 45 PowerPoint slides on WMDs Colin Powell presented to the UN on 2/5/03; and the Forged Iraq Uranium documents cited by President Bush during the 2003 State of the Union Address
Source info