President Obama's attorney filed papers supporting an earlier court decision finding Cablevision's remote storage DVR legal. The Solicitor General also showed technology savvy, mentioning 'cloud services' and even music lockers specifically in a footnote.
Footnote 3: 'One example may be music lockering services, which permit users to upload files to a remote computer server and stream that music to a personal device over the Internet. The general development of cloud computing...may generate similar issues.'
This demonstrates a deep technical understanding of technology trends. In the first test pitting consumer interests versus media companies under Obama, the consumer emerged victorious. Let's hope future jurists examining these issues have the same understanding of cloud computing.
--MR
