Movie industry's shortsighted fight Bob Barr
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/09/ED051680HG.DTL ... " There is now unfolding in a federal court in San Francisco a lawsuit in which several major Hollywood movie studios are suing RealNetworks - a relatively small but successful company that develops and markets Internet communications technology - in an effort to prevent the company from selling a software product that simply enables consumers to copy their DVDs to their personal computers. If the studios are successful in this Goliath-against-David legal action, Edison's lesson in hard work will have been effectively reduced to, "genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent permission." ...
