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Jader · 20-05-01, 04:33 PM

From Wired Magazine, Issue 9.06
- Paul Boutlin

So much for the red carpet. Sixteen-year-old Aimee Deep was thrilled to be on the guest list of Tina Brown's Talk conference, "Innovators and Navigators." Her dad, Aimster founder Johnny Deep, had been invited to participate in the spring Santa Barbara event. The elder Deep -- who named the P2P software after his daughter -- was asked to sit on a panel, "Intellectual Property: Innovation vs. the Law," with Disney's Michael Eisner and BMG exec turned startup maven Strauss Zelnick.

But when dad and daughter showed up, they found Talk was treating them like outlaws, not honored guests. "I got a call on my cell to come to the business office," explains Johnny. It was moderator Gordy Crawford, the brains behind media stock investor Capital Research and Management. "He said I didn't need to be on the panel. It sounded to me like they had a pretty clear opinion that file sharing is piracy."

Things went downhill from there. According to Aimee (whose story was corroborated by others who attended the panel), "Strauss said he wanted to put 10 students in jail. The guy (Michael Eisner) from Disney and a couple other guys agreed. They said maybe we should take a couple of college students out of their dorms and put them in jail, and that will stop this."

That evening, at a screening of Bridget Jones's Diary, Aimee introduced herself to Harvey Weinstein, cochair of Miramax, which publishes Talk with the Hearst Corporation. "I said I was Aimster," she says. "He's like, 'Were you invited here?' He wanted to make sure we were on the guest list. Before that I thought he was a nice guy." Conference organizers vouched for the Deeps, who stayed for the movie but bailed on the rest of the three-day conference. After all, it's clear when you're not wanted. "From the look on his face," says Johnny, "it was like he thought we were going to bootleg the movie."

20-05-01, 04:33 PM	#1
Jader iniquitous Join Date: May 2000 Location: cyber-hell Posts: 2,886	P2P Talk: Thanks for Not Sharing From *Wired* Magazine, Issue 9.06 - Paul Boutlin So much for the red carpet. Sixteen-year-old Aimee Deep was thrilled to be on the guest list of Tina Brown's Talk conference, "Innovators and Navigators." Her dad, Aimster founder Johnny Deep, had been invited to participate in the spring Santa Barbara event. The elder Deep -- who named the P2P software after his daughter -- was asked to sit on a panel, "Intellectual Property: Innovation vs. the Law," with Disney's Michael Eisner and BMG exec turned startup maven Strauss Zelnick. But when dad and daughter showed up, they found Talk was treating them like outlaws, not honored guests. "I got a call on my cell to come to the business office," explains Johnny. It was moderator Gordy Crawford, the brains behind media stock investor Capital Research and Management. "He said I didn't need to be on the panel. It sounded to me like they had a pretty clear opinion that file sharing is piracy." Things went downhill from there. According to Aimee (whose story was corroborated by others who attended the panel), "Strauss said he wanted to put 10 students in jail. The guy (Michael Eisner) from Disney and a couple other guys agreed. They said maybe we should take a couple of college students out of their dorms and put them in jail, and that will stop this." That evening, at a screening of Bridget Jones's Diary, Aimee introduced herself to Harvey Weinstein, cochair of Miramax, which publishes Talk with the Hearst Corporation. "I said I was Aimster," she says. "He's like, 'Were you invited here?' He wanted to make sure we were on the guest list. Before that I thought he was a nice guy." Conference organizers vouched for the Deeps, who stayed for the movie but bailed on the rest of the three-day conference. After all, it's clear when you're not wanted. "From the look on his face," says Johnny, "it was like he thought we were going to bootleg the movie."