Court to Hear Landmark P2P Case

Posted by simoniker on Monday February 2, 2004 @05:47AM from the peer-versus-peer dept.

CrystalFalcon writes "Wired News reports that a federal appeals court is poised to hear arguments in a landmark case involving Grokster and Morpheus that could decide the future of peer-to-peer services, and may affect whether technology companies can be held liable for their customers' behavior." The appeal against last April's Grokster/Morpheus court win will take a while to shake out, though: "At Tuesday's hearing, each side will have 30 minutes to present its arguments and answer questions from the three judges. The judges will likely take several months to issue an opinion on the matter."

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Microsoft better look out! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-02 06:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic

If this case is to decide whether or not a company can be held responsible for the end user's of their products, then Microsoft better hope that Grokster and Morpheus win this case! Just look at the damages caused by Microsoft driven viruses (virii?). That could cost them millions!