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Court to Hear Landmark P2P Case
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."
They also turn in a lot of papers.
The oral argument is just a chance for the two sides to deliver their most important arguments in the case.
Well that and it also takes some time for the court to write the verdict.
Just saying it like it are.
"and may affect whether technology companies can be held liable for their customers' behavior."
What if this happens and Microsoft becomes liable for all of those viruses written using their compilers? Think of all the damage the Office macro viruses cause!
Better yet should the post office be liable for transporting Antrax and the like?