High Court Agrees to Hear File-Sharing Dispute

stkpogo pastes: "The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether two Internet file-sharing services may be held responsible for their customers' online swapping of copyrighted songs and movies. Justices will review a lower ruling in favor of Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc., which came as a blow to recording companies and movie studios seeking to stop the illegal distribution of their works." Grokster won in the lower courts, but the studios are appealing. This case, when finally decided, will be equivalent to the Betamax case 20 years ago which ensured that VCRs were legal.

Comments

Re:A question for the more legally knowledgeable..

[Anonymous Coward]

Now this is a sad state of affairs.... When I read this comment I thought there was a misspelling in it because the word was not spelled "rediculous." I think I may be loosing my mind.

Re:Quotation from Chairman Tom

[abulafia]

I don't know who this "Thomas Jefferson" person is, but with that kind of commie pinko thinking, I shudder to think where this country would have gotten. Do you know anyone else who thinks like this? we should make some _lists_. Teach 'em a lesson.

Re:For your protection...

[cbiltcliffe]

Even further, brains are dangerous and unpredictable systems that should be tightly controlled, if not totally disabled, throughout an individual's lifetime.

Hasn't this already happened with a lot of people?

That Darn Constitution

[Nom du Keyboard]

...the right of the people to bear arms...

...shall secure for a limited period of time...

...marriage shall be between ???...(enacted 200x)

Clearly The Constitution is at fault. Didn't those people know how to say what they really meant? And I'd always been told they were the smartest people of their time. Now I'm just sooo disappointed.