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High Court Agrees to Hear File-Sharing Dispute

Posted by michael on from the two-paths-diverged-in-a-wood dept.

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.

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  1. Bush by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    With Bush's cronies in power, will the outcome really be any surprise?

  2. The farce of [BS] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "The farce of "loss" due to file sharing "

    Here we go again. Why don't you cut out all the speechwriting and simply say. "I'm going to download, no matter what you say. So there".

    That would proably be the most honest thing your group has ever done in it's existance.

    1. Re:The farce of [BS] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      He, he. This is funny. Remember moderators you're not hurting me one bit. You are however contributing to the decline of slashdot's reputation. People talk about the rampent hypocrisy present here, and then someone comes along with the technically correct "We all have different opinions". Howver forgetting that moderation abuse reenforces the qualitative image (if not the numeric) that geeks are all just a bunch of lawless punks. Counter? Moderated down so no one can see it. Only those who read on a regular basis at -1 can be said to be getting the straight dope. Everyone else isn't, and they never will. So keep sticking your fingers in your proverbial ears. You're only hurting yourselves.

  3. Re:blinders on the eyes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You, sir, are both a thief and a murderer, for you have killed a baboon and stolen his face.

  4. We'll be better off if Rehnquist croaks first by jizmonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    In the Betamax decision, he voted to find infringement. Stevens, bless his soul, wrote the majority opinion. The case will be heard in March and decided by June, so ideally that curmudgeonly bastard Rehnquist will die in February or so and we don't get a new justice appointed before summer. Cross your fingers.

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  5. Confessions of a fag's penis... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't like being stinky. Every night I find myself covered in a different man's poo, blood, and saliva. I'm tired of being forced into spaces where I don't fit. I've left many a sphincter stretched out and useless. Goatse was only the beginning. I'm an unwilling party to this senseless destruction of rectums.

  6. Re:Quotation from Chairman Tom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    after reading some of this tripe from you MORONS........I hope the supreme court rules in favor of the Music companies.......

    that will teach you scumbags