Cutlass Developers' Journal

It is always interesting to post for the first time on a blog. Since this is a blog dedicated to Cutlass and related topics (P2P, file sharing, VoIP, etc), I thought I’d link to a story I say today on the Washington Post.

I didn’t see any indication in the story about who the suspects are. It will definitely be interesting to see what the courts decide for them if they do get caught.

Speaking of the MPAA, I heard an unbelievable story about why Hollywood is what it is. Apparently, Thomas Edison held the original patent on ‘moving pictures’. Back in Edison’s time, California was considered a ‘lawless frontier’. In order to escape the jurisdiction of patent law, movie makers escaped to California so that they would not have to deal with patent infringement. So, that’s why Hollywood is in California, and not in say, New York.

I find it highly amusing that with the movie people (e.g. MPAA), the shoe is on the other foot. What goes around, comes around, I guess.