Mark Cuban: Rage Against The RIAA Machine

Mark Cuban comments on the next big p2p case making it’s way to court, MGM vs. Grokster on his blog. I think this is the most facinating part of the post:

Thats what is ahead of us if Grokster loses. Thats what happens if the RIAA is able to convince the Supreme Court of the USA that rather than the truth, which is , Software doesnt steal content, people steal content, they convince them that if it can impact the music business, it should be outlawed because somehow it will. It doesnt matter that the RIAA has been wrong about innovations and the perceived threat to their industry, EVERY SINGLE TIME. It just matters that they can spend more then everyone else on lawyers. Thats not the way it should be. So , the real reason of this blog. To let everyone know that the EFF and others came to me and asked if I would finance the legal effort against MGM. I said yes. I would provide them the money they need. So now the truth has been told. This isnt the big content companies against the technology companies. This is the big content companies, against me. Mark Cuban and my little content company. Its about our ability to use future innovations to compete vs their ability to use the courts to shut down our ability to compete. its that simple.

He’s certainly an interesting character and seems to generally be putting those .com dollars to good work. I actually worked on a site/company which he owns, NetIdentity, once upon a time. I also helped out the guys admining that site with Linux issues a couple of times, but never met Cuban or anything like that since there was a layer or two of people between him and said company.