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quote; think about it........ "I say with a degree of certainty
that the legislative intent behind the DMCA Section 512(a) was NOT to
enable the powerful telecommunications industry to get away with the
same vicarious copyright infringements that file sharing services like
Napster, Grokster, Limewire and others have been shut down or penilized
for."
................Max Davis, founder of
DataRevenue.Org |
{multimedia messaging
system = MMS} The original system was designed and deployed by wireless
carriers to enable end users to share multimedia files peer2peer while they
(wireless carriers)
profit from these activities. The Carriers' MMS is a dedicated sub-system
of mobile networks that has little to do with the Internet and the providing of
other telecommunications and therefore separate and distinct from their "general
purpose technology".
In contrast, Apple's new SMS/MMS is a different beast as it rides on the back of
the wireless carriers' ISP (Internet Service Provider) "general purpose
technology". iMessage will be free to iOS 5 users and would appear to have
a safe harbor argument since it is free and available via the Internet.
However, it is still enabling users to freely share others' copyrighted
materials without the authorization of the rights holders.
The following diagrams from a "3GPP2" Functional Description document illustrate the fact that an MMS network is a dedicated system for the transport, distribution and publication of MMS content amongst peers for profit. However, this dedicated sub-system of mobile networks also uses relay servers for storage as needed.
........shows the MMS Reference Architecture and identifies reference points within an MMSNA that are further described below. Abstract messages are indicated in section 8 that describe the logical message exchange on these reference points on a high-level basis.
A file-sharing system may be "push or pull". In LimeWire's case it was a "pull". MMS is a "push".
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