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Supreme Court Takes Hard Look at P2P

Posted by Zonk on from the under-the-judicial-microscope dept.

Patrick Mannion writes "Supreme Court justices quizzed attorneys for file-swapping software companies and Hollywood studios Tuesday, in a case that will help determine the future of both the technology and entertainment industries. In their questions, the justices were critical of the entertainment industry's proposal, which would hold companies "predominantly" supported by piracy liable for copyright infringement. However, they showed little sympathy for the file-swapping companies' business model."

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  1. Activist Court by s1283134 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With the level of activism that is going on with this court this can't be good.

  2. Re:The scary part about it is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Then it becomes entirely about who is lining whose pockets. The RIAA, with the help of some of its friends, has a decent shot at buying what it wants.

    Can you (as in USA citizens, not you personally) please stop referring to yourself as the "Land of the Free" and babbling on about democracy when your government is so easily bought and sold, when your "free speech" doesn't even earn a place in the top 20 of the press freedom list compiled by journalists without borders, when your president oversteps government boundaries to interfere with a court's decision, when you imprison people for years without due process, access to a lawyer or even a trial, when people joke about the cruel and unusual punishment (rape) they recieve in prison? It's getting very tiresome. By any objective definition, your freedom and democracy is routinely violated without much complaining, let alone revolutionary action.

    By all means, let your country go to hell in a handbasket, just don't announce to all and sundry that you are heaven while doing so.